Acorn, George, 93
Addison, Joseph, 95
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 4, 192; Jack Sheppard, 8, 42–46, 56–58, 60–77, 88; Rookwood, 42, 43, 60, 72, 77
Allison, Henry E., 137–38
Altick, Richard D., 88, 212, 220n12
Anderson, Amanda, 6, 7, 203n62
Aram, Eugene, 71–72
Arendt, Hannah, 93, 101, 102, 144
Aristotle, 33
Ashton, Rosemary, 223n58
Attardo, Salvatore, 213–14n40
Attridge, Derek, 200–1n19
Austen, Jane, 124, 126, 130, 192, 209n66, 225n8; Emma, 125; Pride and Prejudice, 26, 158
Autobiography (Mill), 9, 35, 146–52
averages, 169
Bain, Alexander, 14, 17, 62–63, 67
Bakhtin, M. M., 15, 31, 19, 130, 200n18
Balzac, Honoré de, 13, 127, 130; Lost Illusions, 10–11; Père Goriot, 173–74
Bamberger, Fritz, 227n33
Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 205n9
Barthes, Roland: and classic realism, 13, 124, 209n66; and eroticism, 103; and hermeneutic code, 52, 231n92; and narrative constraint, 5, 13, 110, 135, 138, 139; and writerly text, 77
Baudelaire, Charles, 176–77
Beggar’s Opera (Gay), 49, 58, 73
Benjamin, Walter, 176–77, 227n28
Bentham, Jeremy, 3, 17, 18, 20, 150, 152, 202n41
Bergson, Henri, 80, 91, 97, 101–3, 197–98n8
Bildungsroman, 9, 34, 115; female, 125, 220n16; individual and community, 126, 140, 144; and induction, 156–58, 173–74, 179; national origin, 144, 222–23n55; in novel theory, 128–31, 145; and the past, 125–26, 131–32
Blanc, François and Louis, 185
Blanchot, Maurice, 219n106
Blanckenburg, Friedrich von, 223n56
Bleak House (Dickens), 85–86
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 229n56
Booth, Wayne C., 211n15
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 178, 192
Brontë, Anne, 192
Brontë, Charlotte, 192; Jane Eyre, 8, 66, 77, 79, 85–86, 112–13; Shirley, 62
Brontë, Emily, 192
Brooks, Peter, 5, 13, 17, 37, 62, 64, 135–36, 138
Brown, Dan: The Da Vinci Code, 89
Brownrigg, Elizabeth, 71–72
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 169–73
Buffon’s needle, 232n99. See also randomness
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 4; Eugene Aram, 43, 60, 71–72, 205n2; Paul Clifford, 43, 49, 60, 206n29; Pelham, 17, 95
Butler, Samuel, 192
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 186
Cantor, Georg, 160–61
capital punishment, 57
Carlyle, Thomas, 18; and German literature, 144, 223n59; on humor, 96–97, 99–100, 103; Sartor Resartus, 192
categorical imperative, 136. See also Kant, Immanuel
Catherine (Thackeray), 59, 72, 75–76, 83
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote, 99, 127
Chandler, Raymond, 89
Chase, Cynthia, 232n94
Chatman, Seymour, 12–13
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 214n52
Chomsky, Noam, 12
Clausius, Rudolf, 229n56
Coetzee, J. M.: Disgrace, 16, 200n19
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 144
Collins, Wilkie, 192; The Woman in White, 94, 178–79. See also sensation fiction
common sense. See sensus communis
Comte, Auguste, 164
contradiction, proof by, 12–13
convention, 82–84, 90, 98, 114, 122, 149–50, 156
countable sets, 160–61
Courvoisier, Benjamin François, 56–57, 60, 63. See also Newgate novel controversy
Cranford (Gaskell), 94–95, 129
Croce, Benedetto, 216n70
Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon), 171
cultivation, 131, 142–46, 148–52
Cvetkovich, Ann, 179
The Da Vinci Code (Brown), 89
Daly, Nicholas, 231n77
Dames, Nicholas, 2, 14, 177, 179
Daniel Deronda (Eliot), 9, 82, 83–84, 153–90, 191; the counterintuitive in, 153–54; experience in, 156, 173–79; failure of reintegration in, 159–61, 166, 190; gambling in, 155, 156, 174–78, 181–87; its “present-day setting”, 177–78; Jews in, 156, 159–64, 166, 173; and statistics, 155–56, 167–73
David Copperfield (Dickens), 78–123, 155; as autobiography, 78, 82–83, 218n90; awareness of outside world in, 79, 81, 85–87, 109–11, 114; blindness in, 116–18; lack of suspense in, 78–79; and laughter, 92, 98–99, 104; narrative topography of, 106–8, 111; parent-child relationships in, 108–9; relation to Jane Eyre, 85, 112–13, 218n99
de Man, Paul, 219n106
Death and Mr. Pickwick (Jarvis), 66
Dick, Philip K., 89
Dickens, Charles: “The Black Veil”, 62; as humorist, 79–80, 90, 94, 103–5; Barnaby Rudge, 205n9; Bleak House, 85–86; Dombey and Son, 88; Great Expectations, 9, 133–39, 140; Hard Times, 22–24, 28–30; Little Dorrit, 8, 79, 210n3; and narrative compulsion, 2, 4, 10, 14; on averages, 169; Pickwick Papers, 17, 42, 66, 88–89, 94–95, 105; providence in, 82–83; Rorty on, 15; Thackeray on, 2, 4, 14, 47, 57, 59–60, 64–66; and work, 106, 111–12. See also Oliver Twist; David Copperfield
Die Räuber (Schiller), 144
Diepeveen, Leornar, 233n3
Dilthey, Wilhelm, 131, 144, 223n56
Disgrace (Coetzee), 16, 200n19
Disraeli, Benjamin, 192, 202n41
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 88
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 99, 127
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 127
Drake, James, 97
Dryden, John, 97
du Maurier, George: Trilby, 88
Eagleton, Terry, 212n24
Eliot, George, 4, 6, 9, 124; “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”, 82; “The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!”, 162; Adam Bede, 180, 197n4; Felix Holt, the Radical, 227n36; Goethe’s influence on, 144; hatred of gambling, 174–75, 184, 185–87; and intuition, 1; James on, 3; and Jews, 163–64; limits of sympathy in, 172–73; Nietzsche on, 1, 197n4; organic metaphor in, 164–66, 170, 173, 227n36; providence in, 82–84, 160; Scenes of Clerical Life, 202n41; and science, 170; and utilitarianism, 22. See also Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda
Elizabeth Brownrigge, 71–72
Emma (Austen), 125
English, James F., 216n75
ethical turn, 6
ethics. See moral philosophy
Eugene Aram (Bulwer-Lytton), 43, 60, 71–72, 205n2
examples, ethical, 6, 36–40, 136
Felix Holt, the Radical (Eliot), 227n36
Fielding, Henry, 58, 65, 70, 130; Joseph Andrews, 99; The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great, 58, 207n42; Tom Jones, 65
Fitzgerald, Percy, 169
Flaubert, Gustave, 4, 127, 130; Madame Bovary, 4, 45
formalism, 2, 3, 15–17, 33, 45, 59, 193
Forster, E. M., 34
Forster, John, 42, 44, 47, 50, 60–62, 66, 68–69, 71, 77, 90
Foucault, Michel, 32, 102, 103, 168
Fraser’s Magazine, 71–72
Freud, Sigmund, 37, 91, 96, 102, 103, 111, 117
Frye, Northrop, 209n78
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 130–31, 142, 144, 145–46, 216n70
Galen, 96
Gallagher, Catherine, 157
Galton, Francis, 226–27n26, 230n58
gambling, 155, 156, 174–78, 181–87
Garcha, Amanpal Singh, 217n86
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 192; Cranford, 94–95, 129; Mary Barton, 7, 22–28; North and South, 202n43
Gauguin, Paul, 204–5n78
Gay, John, 65, 73–75, 207n41; Beggar’s Opera, 49, 58, 73
Gide, André, 31
Gilmore, Dehn, 231n83
Girard, René, 119–20
Gissing, George, 192
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 149; Sorrows of Young Werther, 144; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, 9, 131–32, 140–41, 144, 173
Great Expectations (Dickens), 9, 133–39, 140
Greenblatt, Stephen, 193
Greimas, Algirdas Julien, 199n2, 217n85
Greiner, Rae, 16–17
Grossman, Jonathan H., 207n46
Guyau, Jean-Marie, 19
Hager, Kelly, 120
Hale, Dorothy J., 14–15
Hard Times (Dickens), 22–24, 28–30
Hardy, Thomas, 83, 192; Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 66, 83, 174, 211n15
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 31, 33, 38, 55–56
Harry Potter (Rowling), 88, 212n24
Hart, Mitchell Bryan, 163
Hayes, Catherine, 72
Hegel, G. W. F., 32, 80, 199n2
hermeneutics, 80, 93–94, 130–31
Hirsch, Marianne, 223n60
Hirschman, Albert O., 64
historical materialism, 5, 184, 193, 199n2
historicism, 85, 87, 89, 191–93
Hitchcock, Alfred, 207n34
Hogarth, Mary, 50
Hogarth, William, 65, 70, 73–75, 76
Hollingsworth, Keith, 43, 45, 62, 71, 205n6
holocaust, 227n28
Hood, Thomas, 95
Howe, Susanne, 144
humor, 8, 78–81, 84, 90–105, 114, 126, 144, 191, 213n38, 213–14n40. See also wit
Hunt, Leigh, 95–96
Hutcheson, Francis, vii, 3, 18, 19–20, 64
induction: and character representation, 156, 158–61, 174, 179, 201n29; and moral philosophy, 19, 28; and prediction, 187
intuition: and consensus, 79–80, 93, 100–2, 125–26, 132, 153, 195; in moral philosophy, 3, 5, 7–8, 18–21, 38, 40–41, 131, 141–42, 144, 146–47; in narrative, 5, 11–14, 27, 28–29, 30, 31, 41, 45–46, 51–56, 58, 78, 82, 114, 118, 125–26, 132, 136–38, 156, 193; Nietzsche on, 1, 2, 5; probability, counter to, 155, 181, 183–84, 188
Jack Sheppard (Ainsworth), 8, 42–46, 56–58, 60–77, 88
Jacobs, Joseph, 162–63
James, Henry, 3, 4, 15, 81, 170, 178, 192
Jameson, Fredric, 6, 67, 93–94, 127, 194, 199n22, 199n2, 220n13
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 8, 66, 77, 79, 85–86, 112–13
Jarvis, Stephen: Death and Mr. Pickwick, 66
Jews, 156, 159–64, 166–67, 173, 187
Joseph Andrews (Fielding), 99
Kafka, Franz, 91
Kant, Immanuel, 32, 34, 36–39, 79, 97, 101, 118, 126, 136–38, 140, 144, 146, 151, 202n40
Kincaid, James R., 91, 103, 105
Korsgaard, Christine, 34
Kurnick, David, 211n20
Lamb, Charles, 99
large numbers, 155, 167, 181–82, 188, 189, 232n99
laughter. See humor
Lecky, W.E.H., 19
Leigh, Geraldine Amelia, 186
Leitch, Thomas, 217n86
Lesjak, Carolyn, 25
Levin, Harry, 83
Levinas, Emmanuel, 16
Levine, Caroline, 2, 20–21, 52–53, 181
Levine, George, 139
Lewes, George Henry, 82, 144, 164, 170, 185–86, 237n80
Lewis, David K., 210n9
The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great (Fielding), 58, 207n42
linguistics, 2, 3, 12, 13, 14, 27
Little Dorrit (Dickens), 8, 79, 210n3
Loesberg, Jonathan, 34
Lost Illusions (Balzac), 10–11
Lukács, Georg: and “poetic necessity”, 5, 10–13, 50; and the Bildungsroman, 130, 131, 156–58, 194, 222n55; on historical novels, 67; on realism, 194
Macrone, John, 62
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 4, 45
Maginn, William, 209n76
Mansel, Henry Longueville, 3, 19, 21, 23, 178–79
Marcus, Sharon, 102–3, 105, 225n12
Martin, Robert Bernard, 97
Martineau, Harriet, 192
Mary Barton (Gaskell), 7, 22–28
Masson, David, 128–29
Maxwell’s demon, 171–72
Maxwell, James Clerk, 170–73
Meredith, George, 17–18, 91–92, 95, 192
Middlemarch (Eliot): as Bildungsroman, 124–25, 131, 174, 187, 225n11, 225–26n14; inductive representation in, 156–59, 160, 161–62; limits of sympathy in, 172–73; natural science in, 170; providence in, 82; representation of suffering in, 180
Mill, John Stuart: Autobiography, 9, 35, 146–52; conventional wisdom and, 147, 149–50; depression, 148–49, 151–52; opposition to intuitionism, 17–18, 146–47; A System of Logic, 151–52; and utilitarian philosophy, 3, 17, 18; Utilitarianism, 3, 146
Miller, D.A., 43, 50–51, 53, 78, 85, 87–88, 94, 118, 179, 193
Miss Marjoribanks (Oliphant), 9, 124–25, 141, 150
modernism, 3, 5, 6, 94, 126, 177, 194
Monk, Leland, 155
Moore, G. E., 197–98n8
moral philosophy, 2–4, 7–9, 15, 17–21, 22, 32–34, 39–41, 80–81, 100–1, 126, 141–42, 146–52, 191
moral sense, 3, 17–21, 29, 44–45, 143, 147. See also intuition
Moretti, Franco, 43, 84, 115, 130, 131–32, 140, 173
Morgenstern, Karl von, 223n56
narrative theory: antinomy of, 32–33, 54; and argument by contradicition, 12–13; and intuition, 7, 11; and popular fiction, 89; and theoretical metalanguages, 11–12, 199n2
Newgate calendars, 43, 61–62, 68, 71–74, 208n52
Newgate novel controversy, 8, 42, 45–46, 55, 56–57
Newman, John Henry, 34–36, 116, 146
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1–2, 5, 32, 91
Nord, Deborah Epstein, 220n12
normal distribution, 226n26
North and South (Gaskell), 202n43
Nussbaum, Martha C., 15, 199n20
Oliphant, Margaret, 192; Miss Marjoribanks, 9, 124–25, 141, 150
Oliver Twist (Dickens), 42–66; as canonical Victorian novel, 9, 43–46, 128–29; moral interpretation of narrative, 4, 8, 44–45, 78, 82; narrative trajectory of, 48–56, 191; narrative withholding in, 8, 28–29, 78–79, 82, 116, 153; publication of, 42; subject of, 46–49
Ortega y Gasset, José, 127
Orwell, George, 111–12
Paley, William, 17
Patey, Douglas Lane, 155
Paul Clifford (Bulwer-Lytton), 43, 49, 60, 206n29
Pelham (Bulwer-Lytton), 17, 95
physiology, 14
Pickwick Papers (Dickens), 17, 42, 66, 88–89, 94–95, 105
Poisson, Siméon-Denis, 155
Poovey, Mary, 85
Pope, Alexander, 80
popular novel, 87–90
Porter, Theodore M., 171
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 26, 158
Proctor, Richard Anthony, 184
Propp, Vladimir, 217n85
psychoanalysis, 5, 13, 34, 37, 97, 111, 117, 218n96
Pynchon, Thomas: Crying of Lot 49, 171
Père Goriot (Balzac), 173–74
Quetelet, Adolphe, 228n38
quincunx, 226n26
Radcliffe, Anne, 60
Radway, Janice, 211n22
randomness, 155, 190, 226–27n26, 232n90
Rawls, John, 32, 119, 125, 145
realism, 6, 9, 34–35, 67, 83, 94, 127, 145, 193–94
Reid, Roddey, 212n29
Richter, Jean Paul, 96, 99–100
Ricoeur, Paul, 76–77
Rookwood (Ainsworth), 42, 43, 60, 72, 77
Rorty, Richard, 15
Rose, Jonathan, 93
Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead (Stoppard), 181
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 32
Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter, 88, 212n24
Ruskin, John, 18
Russell, William, 56
Said, Edward, 225–225n14
Sammons, Jeffrey L., 222–23n55
Sand, George, 197n3
Sartor Resartus (Carlyle), 192
Scenes of Clerical Life (Eliot), 202n41
Schiller, Friedrich: Die Räuber, 144
sensation fiction, 43, 94, 178–79, 231n77
sensus communis, 9, 79, 93, 100–5, 117, 126, 144, 146
set theory, 160–61
Seymour, Robert, 66
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 131; and the “moral sense”, 3, 19, 146, 222n49; and Bildung, 142–44; and sensus communis, 93, 100–1, 126; and Vico, 216n70
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 100, 101
Shirley (Brontë), 62
Sinclair, John, 168–69
Siskin, Clifford, 224n70
Slaughter, Joseph R., 130, 140–41
Small, Helen, 169–70
Smith, Adam, 15, 16–17, 21, 64
Snyder, Laura J., 198n11
Solomons, Ikey (Model for Dickens’s Fagin), 72
Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe), 144
Spencer, Herbert, 164
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 16
statistics: “Eastern” and “Western”, 228–29n42; as counterintuitive, 155; Buckle on, 169–70; Dickens on, 169; discussed in Daniel Deronda, 167–68; and Jews, 162–64, 227n33; the law of large numbers, and, 155; and the political state, 168–69; and thermodynamics, 170–72
Stephen, Leslie, 142–43
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy, 77, 99, 103, 215n65
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 192
Stoker, Bram, 192
Stone, Wilfred, 182
Stoppard, Tom: Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead, 181
subject matter, 8, 44–46, 58–59
suspense, 8, 13, 14, 52–53, 54–55, 62–63, 67, 78–79, 82, 114, 116, 181, 191
Sutherland, John, 231n91
sympathy: and humor, 95, 98–103, 215n65; and interest, 58, 63–65, 207n46; limits in Eliot, 172, 180; and moral interpretations of novels, 14–17, 23–26, 28–29, 31; in moral philosophy, 18, 21, 23, 147
A System of Logic (Mill), 151–52
Taine, Hyppolite, 104
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy), 66, 83, 174, 211n15
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 192; “Going to See a Man Hanged”, 57, 64–65; and the Bildungsroman, 130; Catherine, 59, 72, 75–76, 83; and Newgate Novels, 8, 43, 47, 49, 55, 57, 59–66, 77; on Dickens’ narrative power, 2, 4, 14; on humor, 92; Vanity Fair, 66, 187; weariness in, 114
theatre licensing, 57
Thornhill, James, 73–75
time travel, 125
Tolstoy, Lev: War and Peace, 66
Tom Jones (Fielding), 65
Tomashevsky, Boris, 33–34, 45, 58–59
Trilby (du Maurier), 88
Trilling, Lionel, 218n23
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 77, 99, 103, 215n65
Trollope, Anthony, 105, 114, 192
Trollope, Frances, 206n27
Tyndall, John, 170
unconscious, 34, 36, 91, 111–12, 114, 117–19, 140, 142, 144
utilitarianism, 3, 17–21, 22–24, 30, 38–39, 150, 152, 204n75
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 66, 187
Vico, Giambattista, 216n70
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 66
Warhol, Robyn, 25
Warnke, Georgia, 145
Weinstein, Philip M., 108
Welsh, Alexander, 106, 107, 112, 115
Wesleyan methodism, 148
Whewell, William, vii, 3, 19, 21, 80, 141–42, 146
Whipple, Edwin P., 96
Wild, Jonathan (real-life model), 70–71, 76
Wilde, Oscar, 192
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Goethe), 9, 131–32, 140–41, 144, 173
Williams, Bernard, 3, 7–8, 38–41
Williams, Raymond, 23–25, 88, 148
Wilson, Edmund, 218n93
wit, 80, 91–96, 100. See also humor
Wittenberg, David, 220n9
Wolfowitz, Paul, 16
Wolin, Richard, 176
Woloch, Alex, 224n1
The Woman in White (Collins), 94, 178–79
Woolf, Virginia, 3–5
Wordsworth, William, 148–49
Wright, Richard, 15
Yeazell, Ruth Bernard, 129
zionism, 160, 163–64, 167, 225–26n14, 227n31
Zupančič, Alenka, 138
Žižek, Slavoj, 213n35