The Columbia History of the British Novel

on suburban life, 624 -25; success of, 662 -63; These Twain, 626 -27, 991; The Truth about an Author, 660; Whom God Hath Joined, 626

Benveniste, Emile, 852 -53

Beowulf, 902

Bergson, Henri, 880

Berlin, Isaiah, 748

Berlin: as setting, 758 -61, 1002

Berlin Conference, 635, 648

Bersani, Leo, 374, 378

Besant, Walter, 614

Beyle, Marie-Henri. See Stendhal

Bible, 31–32, 39

Bidpai tales, 926

Bigamy, 65, 67–68

Bildungsroman, xiii, 195 -96, 377; and sentimental novels, 181 — 82, 189 — 91, 196

Bishop, Elizabeth: 'Crusoe in England,' 23

Black Panther, 969 -1026-

Blacks, 693

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 470, 473, 483

Blair, Eric Arthur. See Orwell, George

Blake, William, 593, 725

Blavatsky, Madame, 730

Blessington, Lady: The Governess, 339

Bloom, Leopold, 912

Bloom, Molly, 912

Bloomsbury Group, 820, 905, 911 — 12, 915 — 16

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 436

Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 441, 445

Bogusness: as theme, 868 — 76, 882 — 83, 885 — 87

Bongie, Chris: Exotic Memories, 574

Booker Prize, 939 — 40, 942, 989, 1000, 1006, 1009

Boone, Joseph, 377

Booth, Bradford, 474, 476

Booth, Charles: Life and Labour of the People of London, 611

Booth, Wayne: The Rhetoric of Fiction, 296 — 97

Borges, Jorge Luis, 582, 842, 947, 948

Boswell, James, 161

Bowen, Elizabeth, 746; The Death of the Heart, 992; The Heat of the Day, 992; The Hotel, 992; The House in Paris, 992; The Last September, 992

Bow Street Runners, 109 — 10

Boyd, William: Brazzaville Beach, 651

Boy's Own Paper, The, 573

Bradbury, Malcolm: Eating People Is Wrong, 992; The History of Man, 992; Rates of Exchange, 992; Stepping Westward, 992

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 354, 363 — 65, 480, 484, 496, 504; Aurora Floyd, 992; The Doctor's Wife, 992; Henry Dunbar, 992; Ishmael, 992; Lady-Audley's Secret, 494 — 95, 501 — 2, 992

Bradley, F. H.: Appearance and Reality, 693

Bradshaigh, Lady, 94–95, 99, 175

Braine, John, 895

Brazil, 884 — 85

Brontë, Anne: Agnes Gray, 353, 992; Poems, by Currer, Ellis and, Acton Bell, 992- 93; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 353, 992

Brontë, Charlotte, 230, 380, 458, 824; and Emily Brontë, 373 — 74, 376 — 77, 379; characters developed by, 354- 59, 361 — 63; children in works of, 584, 596; 'Emma,' 992; influence of, 363- 67;Jane Eyre, 352 -59, 361, 364 — 73, 497, 568, 584, 596, 946 — 47, 955 — 56, 992; narrative style of, 360 — 61; Poems, by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, 992 -93; politics of, 359 — 60; The Professor, 360, 992; Shirley, 357 -60, 363, 365, 371 -73; on social issues, 367 — 71; Villette, 360- 64, 372 -73, 379, 992; on women's roles, 371 -73, 955 -56

Brontë, Emily, 371, 955 -56; children in works of, 596; on class and sexuality, 377- 79; criticism of, 376 -79; on moral issues, 373 -74; narrative style of, 374 -76; Poems, by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, 992 -93; Wuthering Heights, 353, 373- 80, 497, 596, 993

Brooke, Emma Frances, 614; The Excursion, 993; The History of Emily Montague, 993; History of Lady Julia Mandeville, 993; Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby, 993; The Old Maid, 993; Rosina, 993; The Siege of Sinope, 993

Brooke, Henry, Fool of Quality, 185

Brookner, Anita, 943; Brief Lives, 941, 952 — 54; The Debut, 993; Family and Friends, 941, 993; Hotel du Lac, 939, -1027- Brookner, Anita (continued) 942, 944, 950, 959 — 60, 993; Latecomers, 941, 950; Lewis Percy, 946, 950; Look at Me, 993; A Misalliance, 993; narrative style of, 944, 950, 952 — 54; Providence, 993; on women, 959 -60

Brooks, Jocelyn, 748

Brophy, Brigid, 904

Brothels. See Prostitutes, prostitution

Browning, Robert: 'Love among the Ruins,' 671

Brunton, Mary, 328, 331; Self-Control, 339

Buckingham and Chandos, Richard, 2 duke of, 411

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 356, 429, 483, 493; The Caxtons, 569 — 70; Harold, Last of the Saxons, 566

Bunyan, John, 20, 361, 371; Pilgrim's Progress, xvii — xviii, 4, 24, 27–28, 410

Burckhardt, Sigurd, 177

Burdett-Coutts, Angela, 388

Burgess, Anthony, 967; Beds in the East, 993; A Clockwork Orange, 993; The Clockwork Treatment, 993; Earthly Powers, 993; Enderby Outside, 993; The Enemy in the Blanket, 993; Inside Mr. Enderby, 993; Malayan Trilogy, 993; Time for a Tiger, 993

Burke, Edmund, 214, 248, 333; Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 227; on the sublime, 340, 342, 344 — 46

Burlesque, 947 — 48

Burma, 744, 745

Burney, Charles, 212

Burney, Frances (Fanny) (Mme d'Arblay), 145, 199, 219, 276, 303; Camilla, 208 — 10, 213, 216, 993; Cecilia, 206 — 7, 212- 16, 252, 993; Diary and Letters… (1778–1840), 994; Early Diary 1768 -78, 994; Evelina, 196 — 97, 205, 208- 9, 213, 215, 252, 332, 993; as heroine, 200–201; marriage of, 207 — 8; as novel writer, 199–200, 205- 6, 217; The Wanderer, 206- 11, 213- 14, 216, 339, 994; 'The Witlings,' 212; on women's lives, 206- 15, 955; as writer, 215 -16

Burton, Richard: The Arabian Nights, 439 — 41; Lake Regions of Central Africa, 573

Butler, Samuel, 706; Erewhon, 429, 576; Hudibras, 63; Way of All Flesh, 823

Butler, Marilyn, 297 — 98

Butt, John, 382

Byatt, Antonia Susan (A. S. Byatt): character development by, 944 -46; The Game, 994; narrative style of, 947, 950; Possession, 939, 941- 43, 945 — 47, 950, 957, 994; Shadow of a Sun, 994; The Virgin in the Garden, 945, 950- 51, 994; on women, 956 — 57

Byrne, Clara Dacre, 339