Index

• active and passive men 130–1
• Agee, James 104, 137–8
• analytic faculty 73–6, 77, 79
• anti-Romantic programme 41
• appearances/expectations, inversion of see peripeteia
• aristocratic world of feelings and actions 6, 14, 18
• Aristotle 2, 34
  • Poetics 1, 129, 149
  • Politics 149
• art 5
• astrology 121
• Auerbach, Erich 6, 115, 128–9, 131, 133, 150
  • Mimesis 7, 126

• Bachelard, Gaston 3
• Ballanche, Pierre-Simon 149
• Balzac, Honoré de 6, 20, 24, 47, 79
  • At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 25, 79
  • Beatrix 79
  • The Collection of Antiquities 21–2
  • A Daughter of Eve 23
  • Lost Illusions 6, 127
  • Louis Lambert 76–7
  • The Muse of the Department 20
  • Old Man Goriot 128, 131
  • ‘The Purse’ 26–7
  • A Second Home 22–3
  • Ursule Mirouet 20–1, 76–7
  • The Wild Ass’s Skin 27
• Baudelaire, Charles 48, 78
• Benjamin, Walter 107, 136, 151
• Bergen-Belsen 108–9, 111
• Berlin 110
• Bioy Casares, Adolfo 80
  • Morel’s Invention 70
• bon mot 30
• Borges, Jorge Luis 70, 80
• Braudel, Fernand 3
• Browne, Thomas 106, 120

• capacity to invent 165–6
• capitalism
  • commodity exchange 53–6, 58–9, 67
  • experimentation on workers’ bodies 60–5
  • genesis of capital 68–9
  • primitive accumulation 63–4, 68
  • subjugation of nature 120
  • see also commodities
• cartography of time 121
• Casement, Roger 113
• causal chains 1–3, 11, 30, 72, 74–5, 79, 84–5, 87, 105, 115, 127–9, 131, 143
  • inversion of see peripeteia
• causal rationality 3, 10, 73, 79, 130
• Chandler, Raymond 87
• character invention 89
• Chateaubriand, François René de 103
• Chekhov, Anton 152
• child labour 62–3
• chimera 93–5, 96–8, 101–2
• civilizing mission 95
• Cixi, Empress 114
• class struggle 14
  • see also social barriers
• Cologne 110–11
• colonial system 95–7
• comedy 4, 57
  • Balzacian social comedy 76
  • of friends 58
• coming-of-age novel 36
• commodities
  • analysis of 52
  • commodity exchange 53–6, 58–9, 67
  • dissimulation of 53
  • exchange value 53
  • labour see labour
  • language of 58
  • phantasmagoria of 53, 58
  • secret of the commodity 10, 52–69
  • thingness of 53
  • use value 53
• community, network of 124
• Conan Doyle, Arthur, A Study in Scarlet 81–2, 86
• Conrad, Joseph 92–3, 113, 146
  • Almayer’s Folly 102
  • Heart of Darkness 95–6
  • Lord Jim 92–3
  • Nostromo 94
  • The Secret Agent 98, 99–101
  • Under Western Eyes 90–1, 97–9
  • Victory 92
• construction/destruction 111, 114–15, 118–21, 123
• Cooper, James Fenimore 74
• crime
  • indicative signs of 94
  • see also detective fiction
• Cuvier, Georges 68, 76, 79

• daily life
  • novelistic fiction and 9, 13, 15–16
  • story-power of 6
  • see also reality
• Dakyns, Janine 106–7
• daydreamer’s gaze 27, 28
• defection of meaning 49, 50
• Deleuze, Gilles 135
• democratization of fiction 23, 133
• detective fiction 10, 69–88
  • analytic faculty 73–6, 77, 79
  • artificialist tradition 80
  • birth of 70, 72, 78
  • causal chains 10, 72, 74–5, 79, 84–5, 87
  • everyday criminality and 77
  • exercises of virtuosity 81–2, 84
  • ideal detective 74
  • interconnectedness of phenomena 77–8, 80, 82–4, 86–7
  • new rationality of 10, 83, 87
  • outsider detective figure 73
  • scientific rationality 76–8
  • signs, deciphering 82, 84
• Dickens, Charles 78
• Diderot, Denis 22, 117
• dissensus 150
• dog days 120–1
• Dos Passos, John 127
• dramaturgy 54, 57–8, 60, 67, 69, 147
• Drolling, Martin 25
• Dunwich 103, 112
• Dürer, Albrecht 107

• Ellroy, James 87
• Empedocles 67
• Engels, Friedrich, The Condition of the Working Class in England 65–6
• Enlightenment era 40, 117
• ennui 131–2
• entomological gaze 16, 21, 79
• epigrams 30–1
• erasure of differences 24
• exploitation, relations of 54–6, 60–6

• factories 61–2, 63, 65
• fantasy tales 10, 116
• Faulkner, William
  • Light in August 138–42, 144
  • The Sound and the Fury 136, 142, 145–8, 150–1, 164
• Felixstowe 112
• fiction
  • counter-work of 115, 119, 120, 123
  • democratization of 23, 133
  • mobilization of knowledge 124
  • naturalist novel 88, 131
  • new fiction 97, 101, 118, 121, 123–4, 138, 144, 152
  • and ordinary experience, distinguished 1
  • politics of 8, 129, 136
  • realist 6–7, 10, 42, 80, 126–8, 131–2, 135
  • recognising 103
  • relation between places 117
  • topography of 14, 104, 111
  • see also detective fiction
• fictional rationality 2, 5, 6, 10, 11
  • Aristotelian 2, 3, 5, 79, 83, 115, 130, 154
  • fundamental structures of 3
  • inversion of appearances and expectations see peripeteia
  • modernist dogma of 87
  • scission of 7
  • transformations of 3, 8, 15
• Flaubert, Gustave 20, 42, 50, 92, 146–7
  • Bouvard and Pécuchet 105, 119
  • Madame Bovary 13, 14, 20, 30, 132–3, 142, 151
  • Sentimental Education 104–5
• forgetting 159
• Fortune (magazine) 104
• fortune and misfortune 2–3, 4, 6, 27, 57, 129, 130
• fragmentation of experience 128, 131
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 104
• French Revolution 9
• Freud, Sigmund 3, 34

• Gaboriau, Émile, The Lerouge Case 81, 85–6
• Galton, Francis 94
• Garrard, Alec 103
• gaze
  • daydreamer’s 27, 28
  • laziness of 47
  • of passers-by 22, 25, 43, 44
  • pictorial 22, 24–5
  • of the poor 28–34
• Gazette des tribunaux 70
• genre painting 22, 24–5, 47
• Godwin, William, Caleb Williams 78

• Hamburger, Michael 103
• Hammett, Dashiell, The Red Harvest 87
• happiness 27–8
  • edge of happiness 153
• Hebel, Johann Peter 121–2
  • ‘Kannitverstan’ 122–5
• Heidegger, Martin 122
• history 1, 6, 7, 67, 129–30, 136, 151
• Holland 116–17
• Hooch, Pieter de 25
• Hugo, Victor 6
  • Les Misérables 29–33

• Ibsen, Henrik 39, 44
• ignorance and knowledge 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 27, 36, 129
• imagination 10, 48, 93, 94, 95
• interconnectedness of phenomena 77, 78, 80, 82, 83–4, 86–7

• Jammes, Francis 42–3
• journeying 10–11, 103, 104–19, 122, 152
  • temporality 11, 104–6
• Joyce, James 127

• Kant, Immanuel 74
• Khayyam, Omar, Rubaiyat 103
• Klee, Paul 107
• knowledge
  • fiction’s mobilization of 4, 124–5
  • as fruit of experience 34
  • knowledge–ignorance relationship 2–6, 12, 27, 36, 129
  • and misfortune 35
  • as revelation 34, 37

• labour
  • abstract 53
  • appropriation of surplus labour 60–1
  • commodity value 56, 59–60, 64
  • concrete 53
  • exploitation, relations of 54–6, 60–6
  • theft of created value 55, 62
• labour time 54–5
• law of inverse proportion 61–2
• Lethe 117, 159
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude 117
• literary modernity 78–9
• literature 5–7
• Lombroso, Cesare 94
• Lowestoft 103, 112, 122
• Lukács, Georg 6, 127, 131
• luxury, inaccessible 29

• Maeterlinck, Maurice 43, 144
  • Interior 43–4
• Malthus, Thomas 65
• Mankell, Henning 86
• Marivaux, Pierre de 19
• Mark the Evangelist 109
• Marx, Karl 3, 5, 57, 67, 84
  • Capital 52–5, 60–1, 64–5, 67, 69, 120, 130
• Marxism 6, 130–1, 136
• materialist science 77
• Maupassant, Guy de 92, 152
  • The Chair-Mender 32–3
• Maurits, Johann 116
• Mauritshuis 116
• memory 110–11
  • forgetting and 159
  • topography of 111
• Messac, Régis 76
• metamorphoses 51, 53, 57–8, 60, 124
• metaphor 14
• mimesis 92

• natural laws of the economy 67
• naturalist novel 88, 131
  • see also realist fiction
• Nazism 110, 117
• negation of negation 68(9
• nihilism 93, 101
• non-story 154, 156
• Norwich 103, 108, 112

• Oedipus 34, 36, 50, 144
• omniscient narrator 91–2
• Orford Ness 103, 113
• overpopulation 65

• parataxis 122
• Patricians 149
• performative contradiction 90
• peripeteia 2, 3, 5, 26, 30, 32, 34, 37–8, 57, 83–4, 115
• Peto, Morton 103, 112
• phantasmagoria of commodities 53, 58
• phantasmagoria of market exchange 55
• philosophical novel 77
• physiognomy 23–4, 94
• pictorial gaze 22, 24–5
• Pisanello 118
• Plato 39, 148
• Platonism 40, 84
• plebeian secession 149
• Poe, Edgar Allen 78–9, 87
  • ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ 69–76, 79–80, 85
• poetic rationality 129
• poetry 1, 48, 129
• political economy, contradiction at heart of 66
• politics of literature 8, 129, 136
• Pontmartin, Armand de 13–5, 23–4
• poor, gazes of the 28–34
• portes-cochères 29–30, 32
• prison 16–20
• progress, model of 115
• prose poem 31
• Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph 56
• Proust, Marcel 135
  • In Search of Lost Time 34–9, 159

• Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand 106
• random moment 7–8, 115, 128–9, 134–6, 150, 152
• rapine 95–6
• rationality
  • of facts 5, 10
  • fictional see fictional rationality
  • poetic 129
  • scientific 3, 6, 10, 52–3, 76–8
  • surfeit of 1
• realist fiction 6–7, 10, 42, 80, 126–8, 131–2, 135
• realist moment 90
• reality 1, 7, 8, 10, 13–15, 48, 52, 54, 59, 89, 90, 103–5, 109, 117, 127, 130–2, 137
• religious tableau 47
• Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson 106, 116
• Rilke, Rainer Maria, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 40, 42–50
• roman policier see detective story
• roman-fleuve 31
• Romantic era 42
• Rosa, João Guimãraes 152–65
  • ‘Cause and Effect’ 162
  • ‘The Dagobé Brothers’ 155–6
  • ‘Famigerado’ 155
  • First Tales 152–3, 156
  • ‘Hocus Psychocus’ 163
  • ‘No Man, No Woman’ 157–9
  • ‘Nothingness and the Human Condition’ 161–2
  • ‘Soroco, His Mother, His Daughter’ 163, 164–5
  • ‘Substance’ 162–3
  • ‘The Thin Edges of Happiness’ 152–3
  • ‘The Third Bank of the River’ 154, 159–61
  • ‘Third Tales’ 153
  • ‘Treetops’ 152–3
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 17
  • Reveries of a Solitary Walker 104

• sado-masochism 35
• São Paolo 117
• Scheveningen 117
• Schopenhauer, Arthur 39, 84, 93
• scientific rationality 3, 6, 10, 52–3, 76–8
• Sebald, W. G. 124
  • The Emigrants 107
  • A Place in the Country 122
  • The Rings of Saturn 103–11, 115–19, 120–2
  • Vertigo 118
• sensible-suprasensible beings 56, 58
• sensitive souls, communication between 16–20, 28, 39
• sertão 154, 157, 166
• Shakespeare, William, Macbeth 145
• signs 19, 35
  • inversion of meanings 83
  • science of 37, 82–4
• silkworms 114, 120
• social barriers 10, 13, 15–16
• social relationships 6, 59
• social science 3, 4–5, 7–8, 27
• Somerleyton Hall 103, 112–13
• Sophocles 36
• Southwold 113, 116
• space-time 134
• speech, voiceless 145–51
• Stendhal 7, 40
  • The Charterhouse of Parma 16–21, 39, 89
  • The Red and the Black 16, 132
• supernatural 20
• surface of things 36
• surplus value 63–4, 120
• suspense formula 155–6
• suspension of disbelief 157
• Swedenborg, Emanuel 76, 79
• Swedenborgian spirituality 20, 76
• Swinburne, Algernon 103
• symbolist age 42
• sympathy and antipathy 93–5, 101

• telepathy 20–1
• temporalities 130–4, 151–2
  • calendar time 121
  • cartography of time 121
  • of causality 6
  • chronicled time 6, 149
  • distinguishing of 3
  • dominant time 152
  • edge of time 136
  • empty time 132
  • fictional time 149
  • hierarchy of times 130–3
  • labour-time 54–5
  • outside-of-time 134, 156
  • of the realist novel 131
  • space-time 134
  • stolen time 54, 62–4
  • successive time 131
  • temporal disorder 145, 151
• The Three Princes of Serendip 74
• topography of fiction 14, 104, 111
• tragedy 1, 5, 57, 83
  • Aristotelian 30, 83
  • bad tragedy 57
  • denouement 57, 78
  • equitable settlement 57
  • good tragedy 67
  • inversion of appearances 57, 83
• ‘true life’ 154, 158–61, 163–4
  • see also reality
• ‘true’ stories 156
  • see also realist fiction
• truth 3, 37–40, 59, 82–3
  • see also verisimilitude

• unity of action 80, 87
• unity of effect 78–9, 85
• untruth, deliberate 37–9

• verisimilitude 1–3, 8, 17, 93–4, 102, 129, 137
• Voltaire 19
• voyeurism 34–40

• Walkley, Mary-Anne 62
• windows and doors 10, 13–51
  • apparatus of capture 21–2
  • boundary 41, 47
  • gazes of the poor 28–34
  • metaphors of visibility and linking 14–15, 16–21, 39
  • museum display case 22–3
  • passers-by, gaze of 22, 25, 43–4
  • sexuality and 34
  • social barriers 10, 13, 15–16
  • spectacle of the outside 40–51
  • transparency 16–17, 19, 21
  • voyeurism 34–40
• Woolf, Virginia 115, 134, 148, 150
  • Mrs Dalloway 134–5, 142, 164
  • To the Lighthouse 126, 128
• wrong-footing 30
  • see also peripeteia

• Zola, Emile, Nana 6, 127