Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

Adams, John Quincy; compared to Cicero; contemporary reviews of; rhetorical practice of

ad Herennium. See Rhetorica ad Herennium

“adoption,” in OED

“Advancement and Reformation of Poetry, The” (Dennis)

alliteration, in Anglo-Saxon poetry

American, in imaginary lexicon

American Language, The (Mencken)

American philology; and Caplan; and de Man; and Gildersleeve; and Hill; and Whitney. See also Adams, John Quincy

American vocabulary, growth of

Anglo-Saxon Pindarics

Anglo-Saxon studies. See also Hickes, George; Old English verse

“annex,” in OED

Annotations on the Pandects (Budé)

antiauthor, Dorothea as

antipioneer, Casaubon as

antisublime, Casaubon as

audax, in Anglo-Saxon Pindarics

Auerbach, Erich; early critics of; and faulty scribes; later critics of. See also Mimesis

author: compared with compiler; corrections by (see errata; proofreading); and despondency; failed (see Casaubon, Edward, as failure); and identity; and vanity. See also author, authorship, in imaginary lexicon

author, authorship, in imaginary lexicon

authority, literary, in OED

“Authorship” (Eliot)

“Barbarians and Citizens” (C. Tolkien)

Battle of Bruanburh

Bellerophon (spaceship)

Beowulf; Heaney’s translation of; sword hilt in; Tolkien’s lecture on

“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” (Tolkien)

“bewilderment,” in OED

Bible. See scripture

Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature, A (Greenfield and Robinson)

Brabant, Robert Herbert, as model for Casaubon

Brooke, Arthur; and pigeonholing

Brooke, Dorothea. See Dorothea

Caplan, Harry; and Loeb edition of ad Herennium

Casaubon, Edward; as antipioneer; as antisublime; and error; as failure; historical model for; and orientalism; and pigeonholing; and scholarship

Casaubon, in imaginary lexicon. See also Casaubon, Edward

Cassiodorus, and faulty scribes

Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Ker)

Cates, W. L. R., A Dictionary of General Biography

Caxton, William, and errata

censorship. See Wyatt, Thomas, modernization of

Chaucer, Geoffrey; and faulty scribes

Cicero; compared to Adams

Clouet, Jean, portrait by, of Budé

“collation,” first attested use of

compiler, compared with author

Confutation of Tyndale (More)

Cornell group. See Caplan, Harry

correction, authorial. See errata; proofreading

Cowley, Abraham. See Cowleyan Pindaric

Creed of the Old South (Gildersleeve)

“Critic as Host, The” (Miller)

criticism: early, of Auerbach; later, of Auerbach; literary; textual

Curtius, Ernst Robert

Declaration … of his Innocence …, A (Wyatt)

De falsa legatione (Demosthenes)

Defence To the Iudges after the Indictement and the evidence (Wyatt)

Demosthenes, De falsa legatione

“De Poetica Anglo-Saxonum” (Hickes)

despondency, authorial

Dialogue Concerning Heresies (More)

Dictionary (Elyot)

Dictionary of General Biography, A (ed. Cates)

diligence. See proofreading

Dissertations on the English Language (Webster)

Diversions of Purley (Tooke)

Dorothea; as antiauthor; and error; and pigeonholing; as pioneer; and scholarship

Dr. Morbius. See Morbius, Edward

“dylygently ouerseen.” See proofreading

Eisenstein, Elizabeth

“Elements of English Pronunciation” (Whitney)

Eliot, George; and German scholarship; as model for Casaubon; and mythography; and orientalism; and pilgrimage motif; and proofreading; Scott’s influence on. See also Evans, Mary Ann; Mackay, Robert William; Middlemarch (Eliot)

Elyot, Thomas; and errata

émigrés (exiles) See also Forbidden Planet (movie)

Erasmus; and Budé; and textual criticism

errata; early history of; Elyot’s; More’s; Tyndale’s. See also proofreading

error; doctrinal; in imaginary lexicon; in Mimesis. See also errata; scribes, faulty

etymologies; and Adams; and Caplan; and Gildersleeve; and Hill; and Whitney. See also etymology, in imaginary lexicon

etymology, in imaginary lexicon. See also etymologies

Evans, Mary Ann. See also Eliot, George

exiles. See émigrés (exiles)

“fault”; in OED See also errata

feminism. See antifeminism; Mimesis, gender issues in

Finnsburh Fragment

Foley, Stephen Merriam

Forbidden Planet (movie); and philology; plot of

“funds,” in OED

Gallagher, Catherine

George Eliot and John Chapman (Haight)

Germans, in imaginary lexicon

Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau

Hamilton, Sir William

Henry VIII: and Elyot; and Tuke; and Wyatt

Hickes, George; biographical sketch of; lyric poetry defined by, |; Menologium considered by; on meter; and the sublime. See also Thesaurus (Hickes)

Highland Widow, The (Scott)

History of English Poetry (Warton)

History of Great Britain, The (Henry)

“Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, The” (Tolkien)

Humphreys, Jennett: and pigeonholing; and the sublime

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

identity: authorial; Jewish

Introduction to an English Grammar (Henley)

James, Henry, and Middlemarch

James II, and Hickes

“Key to All Mythologies.” See Casaubon, Edward, as failure

Ladislaw, Will; as pioneer

Lady of the Lake, The (Scott)

Landor, Walter Savage

“Lawrenny, H.” (Edith Simcox)

Layton, George Soames

Leaves of Grass (Whitman)

Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (Adams)

letter of application, Tolkien’s

lexicography, and Middlemarch

lexicon, imaginary: American; author, authorship; Casaubon; error; etymology; Germans; orientalist; pigeonhole; pioneer; sublime

libera, in Anglo-Saxon Pindarics

Life and Growth of Languages, The (Whitney)

Life and Writings of Abraham Cowley (Sprat)

Life of Scott (Lockhart)

Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus. See Thesaurus (Hickes)

Linguistic Science in the Nineteenth Century (Pedersen)

literary criticism, Tolkien’s

literature, social function of

Loeb edition of Rhetorica ad Herennium

Lucubrationes (Seneca)

Lydgate, Tertius; as pioneer; and the sublime

lyric poetry, defined by Hickes

Mackay, Robert William: Eliot’s review of; as model for Casaubon

Main, Alexander, and Eliot

Martial, and faulty scribes

memory; Wyatt’s focus on

Menologium, Hickes’s consideration of

“Metaphor and Catachresis” (Parker)

meter, in Old English verse

Middlemarch (Eliot); American reading of; and authorial identity; as book of errors; and etymology; idealism of; and lexicography; as a novel of pioneers; organization as theme in; pronunciation in; and sublimity; and “volume”; wordplay in. See also Casaubon, Edward; Eliot, George; James, Henry, and Middlemarch

Middlemarch Pioneer

Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot)

Mimesis: “Adam and Eve” in; as book of exiles; and error; and familial relationships; gender issues in; and homecomings; Isaac in; and methods of the editor; Odysseus in; paradoxes of. See also Auerbach, Erich

Miscellanea (Politian)

“Monsters and the Critics, The.” See “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” (Tolkien)

More, Thomas; and errata

Mrs. Lynn Linton (Layton)

Murray, James A. H.;

and pigeonholing; as pioneer; and sublime pursuit of philology. See also Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Murray, K. M. Elisabeth

My Literary Life (Linton)

Mystère d’Adam. See “Adam and Eve,” in Mimesis

naming: Heaney’s; Tolkien’s

Nature of the Book, The (Johns)

Nietzsche, Friedrich 1984 (Orwell)

nonjurors (seventeenth century)

Norton Anthology of English Literature, The

Novum instrumentum (Erasmus)

Odysseus, in Mimesis

OED. SeeOxford English Dictionary (OED)

Old English verse: Durham; Exodus; meter in. See also Anglo-Saxon Pindarics; Anglo-Saxon studies; Cowleyan Pindaric

On the Sublime (Longinus)

orientalism. See also orientalist, in imaginary lexicon

orientalist, in imaginary lexicon. See also orientalism

Oxford English Dictionary (OED); “adoption”; “annex”; “bewilderment”; “funds”; literary authority in; manqué; “orientalist”; “pigeonhole”; “pioneer”; “plash”; repoussoir; “retrogressive”; role of pronunciation in; Scott cited in; “sublime”. See also Murray, James A. H.

Palsgrave, John, and proofreading

paradoxes, of Mimesis

Pattison, Mark, as model for Casaubon

performance: culture of; nature of

Philological Society

philology: comparative; and Forbidden Planet; function of; and German scholarship; Heaney’s vision of; history of; and mythography; and politics (see under politics); sublime pursuit of; Tolkien’s vision of. See also American philology

phonology, so-called science of

pigeonhole, in imaginary lexicon

pilgrimage motif, in Eliot

Pindar. See Cowleyan Pindaric

Pindarique Odes (Cowley). See Cowleyan Pindaric

pioneer: in imaginary lexicon; in OED. See also pioneers

pioneers; and politics. See also pioneer

“plash,” in OED

poetry: alliteration in; Heaney’s; lyric, defined; and politics (see under politics). See also Anglo-Saxon Pindarics; Beowulf; Cowleyan Pindaric; Hickes, George

Policy and Police (Elton)

Politian, Miscellanea

politics: and philology (see also Adams, John Quincy; American philology); and pioneers; and poetry

Practicing New Historicism (Gallagher and Greenblatt)

Principles of Rhetoric, The (Hill)

printers; English, and errata; Italian, and errata

printing, early history of. See also printers

Printing Press as an Agent of Change, The (Eisenstein)

Prison-House of Language, The (Jameson)

Progress of the Intellect, The (Mackay), Eliot’s review of

pronunciation: in Middlemarch; in OED; and phonology

proofreading; Eliot’s; self-correction as. See also errata

Pynson, Richard, and proofreading

Rational Amusement (Campbell)

Rawlinson and Bosworth Chair (Oxford). See letter of application, Tolkien’s

Rebholz, R. A., and modernization of Wyatt

Renaissance Self-Fashioning (Greenblatt)

repoussoir, in OED

“retrogressive,” in OED

Rhetorica ad Herennium

rhetoricians. See also Adams, John Quincy; American philology

Romanische Forschungen

Ruthall, Thomas, Erasmus’s letter to

“Sandman, The” (Hoffmann)

Saussure, Ferdinand de

scholarship: English; German; and self-reflection; Southern

science fiction. See Forbidden Planet (movie)

Scott, Sir Walter: influence of, on Eliot; in OED

scripture; and doctrinal error

self-reflection, in disciplinary scholarship

Seneca, Lucubrationes

Shakespeare, William

Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of Lyric (Menocal)

Silas Marner (Eliot)

“Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (Eliot)

Simcox, Edith (“H. Lawrenny”)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Eliot’s letter to

sublime: in imaginary lexicon; in OED. See also sublime, the

sublime, the: Casaubon as negation of; and Heaney; and Hickes; search for; and Tolkien. See also sublime

Supplication (More)

Surgeon’s Daughter, The (Scott)

Sweynheim and Pannarz, atelier of

sword hilt, in Beowulf

synecdochic reading, technique of

“Taxation no Tyranny” (Johnson)

textual criticism: Erasmus’s comments on; Housman’s definition of

“textual forensics”

Thesaurus (Hickes); “De Poetica Anglo-Saxonum”

Tidwald, and Torhthelm

Tolkien, Christopher

Tolkien, J. R. R.; “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”; “Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, The”; letter of application; and literary criticism; and philology; and the sublime