Robert Squillace is currently Assistant Professor of English at Wittenberg University. He has published an essay on Hardy's Return of the Native and is coediting with Edward Mendelson a new edition of Arnold Bennett's Riceyman Steps. He is now completing a study of Bennett's fiction.
G. A. Starr is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his publications are Defoe and Spiritual Autobiography and Defoe and Casuisty. His current research is on sentimental literature and on world's fairs.
John Allen Stevenson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written on both the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel and is currently working on the political origins of the Gothic novel.
Kristina Straub is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She has published a book on Frances Burney, Divided Fictions: Fanny Burney and Feminine Strategy, and a book on eighteenth-century actors, Sexual Suspects. She has coedited with Julia Epstein Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity and is currently working on a study of identity in eighteenth- century narratives of sexual transgression.
Ronald R. Thomas is Associate Professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Among his publications are Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious and a number of articles on the novel, including essays on Dickens, Stevenson, and Beckett. He is currently working on a book entitled 'Private Eyes and Public -1021- Enemies: The Science and Politics of Identity in American and British Detective Fiction.'
James Thompson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Between Self and World: The Novels of Jane Austen, and he is currently completing a study of the origins of the novel and political economy.
David Trotter is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College, London. Among his publications are The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry, Circulation: Defoe, Dickens and the Economies of the Novel, and The English Novel in History 1895–1920.
James Grantham Turner is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to editing Politics, Poetics and Hermeneutics in Milton's Prose and Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Texts, Images, he has written The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, 1630–1660 and One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton.
William Warner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Among his publications are Reading Clarissa and Chance and the Text of Experience. He is currently working on a study of the early British novel entitled The Elevation of the Novel in Britain.
Judith Wilt is Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, and Lawrence, Secret Leaves: The Novels of Walter Scott, and Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction: The Armageddon of the Maternal Instinct.
Michael Wood is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter. Among his publications are Stendhal, America in the Movies, García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude, and numerous essays on fiction and film. He has recently completed a study of Nabokov, and is currently working on a biography of Marcel Proust. -1022-
Abandonment, 45, 86, 346 — 47
Abolition. See Antislavery movement
Academy (periodical), 473
Achebe, Chinua, 653; No Longer at Ease, 650
Ackroyd, Peter, 980 — 81; Chatterton, 981, 989; The Great Fire of London, 989; Hawksmoor, 981, 989; The Last Days of Oscar Wilde, 989; The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, 981
Act of Settlement, 108
Adams, Henry, 610 — 11
Addison, Joseph, 20, 407, 424; The Campaign, 422
Adolescence, 181 — 82
Adorno, Theodor, 295
Adultery, 65, 784
Adulthood, 195, 257, 604
Adventure, xvi — xvii, 2, 47, 149
Adventure stories, 20, 503, 1000; imperial/ military, 564 -65, 573
Africa, 991; imperialism in, 561 — 62, 634 35, 647 — 52, 745; as setting, 47, 575 76, 994, 1000; stereotypes of, 573- 75
Agency: political, 67 — 69
AIDS, 985 -86
Albermarle (magazine), 616
Aldington, Richard, 716
Alexander, F. M., 752
Allen, Grant: The British Barbarians, 429; Woman Who Did, 620
Allen, Walter, 20, 478
All the Year Round (journal), 381
Altick, Richard: The English Common Reader, 327
Amatory fiction, 50, 70–71; agency expressed in, 67–69; culture and, 63–64; function of, 62–63; Harlequin romances as, 59–60; plots of, 51–52; sexuality in, 52–59; vows in, 65–67; women and men in, 60–62
America. See North America American Revolution, 266, 267, 330, 484, 561
Amis, Kingsley, 895, 896, 898, 908; The Alteration, 901, 989; The Anti-Death League, 901, 989; Bright November, 989; Colonel Sam, 901; The Crime of the Century, 901; Difficulties with Girls, 901; Ending Up, 901; on experimental writing and modernism, 899–903, 916 — 17; Fielding's influ -1023- Amis, Kingsley (continued) ence on, 900–902; A Frame of Mind, 989; Girl, 20, 901; The Green Man, 901, 989; I Like It Here, 901, 989; I Want It Now, 901; The James Bond Dossier, 901; Jake's Thing, 900- 1, 901, 903; Lucky Jim, 900, 962, 989; New Maps of Hell, 901; The Old Devils, 901, 989; One Fat Englishman, 900, 989; The Riverside Villas Murder, 901; Russian Hide and Seek, 901; satire of, 903- 4; Spectrum, 901; Stanley and the Women, 900–901; Take a Girl Like You, 900 -1, 901, 989; That Uncertain Feeling, 900, 989
Amis, Martin, 916 — 17, 980; Money, 977, 979 — 80
Amritsar Massacre, 642 — 43
Andersen, Hans Christian, 453
Androgyny, 254 — 55
Angels, 393; in the house, 354, 392, 497, 791
Angry Young Men, 755 — 56
Animation, 598 — 99
Anne, Queen of England, 20, 989
Anonymity: Scott's use of, 305 — 7; Trollope's use of, 460 — 61
Anthropology, 501, 725
Antielitism, 898, 902
Anti-heros, 843 — 44
Anti-imperialism, 562, 567
Antinovels, 1, 6–7, 843
Antipamela, 85
