The Columbia History of the British Novel

imperial novels, 648 — 49; Joyce's, 775 -76, 778, 785 -86; Restoration, 88–91

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Comic novels, xiii, 12

Commerce: as theme, 45 — 46

Communism, 743

Community: and society, 725 — 28, 736

Competition: among women, 960 — 65

Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 902, 912; Men and Wives, 744; More Women Than Men, 744

Comte, Auguste, 435, 438

Condition-of- England, 508; debate over, 509 -12, 521, 531

Congo, 635, 694 — 95

Congreve, Richard, 9, 21, 90

Congreve, Mrs., 432

Connolly, Cyril, 747

Conquest, Robert, 901

Conrad, Joseph (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski), 503, 572, 649, 662, 749, 765; Almayer's Folly, 688 — 89, 711, 995; The Arrow of Gold, 711; artistic code of, 689 — 91; 'Autocracy and War,' 703; Chance, 708 -10, 995; on cultural context, 693 — 98; emotional life of, 691 — 92; Heart of Darkness, 562, 574, 577, 634 — 35, 648, 651, 667, 688, 691 -98, 701, 934, 995; on imperialism, 634 -35; The Inheritors, 833, 998; on judgment, 698–702; 'Karain,' 692; 'The Lagoon,' 692; life of, 685 — 86; Lord Jim, 577, 686, 688, 691, 698–702, 995; Marlow tales, 691– 702; The Nigger of the Narcissus, 689 -91, 995; Nostromo, 651, 691 -92, 702- 6, 713, 995; An Outcast of the Islands, 688 -89, 711, 995; A Personal Record, 686; political novels by, 702- 8; psychological themes of, 685, 712; The Rescue, 691, 711; Romance, 833, 998; The Rover, 712- 13; search for meaning by, 687 — 88; The Secret Agent, 620, 702, 706 — 7, 710, 713, 823, 995; 'The Secret Sharer,' 686, 692, 708 -9, 711 -12; sentimentalism of, 690 -91; settings used by, 688 -89; The Shadow-Line, 710 -12; 'A Smile of Fortune,' 711; Suspense, 713; Tales of Unrest, 692; Typhoon, 995; Under Western Eyes, 702, 707 -8, 713, 995; Victory, 708- 11, 995; Vidar, 688; 'Youth,' 691 -92

Consumption, 108, 210

Cooper, James Fenimore, 729; «Leatherstocking» tales, 735

Cooper, William, 895, 897, 904

Cornhill Magazine, 461

Corruption, 88, 145

Costes de la Calprenède, Gauthier de, 51

Counterpoint (periodical), 919

Counter-public sphere, 331 — 32

Court Secret, The, 131

Courtship-comedy, 76

Coutts, Angela Burdett, 570

Coveney, Peter, 584, 593

Coventry, Francis, 4, 7, 15, 17; 'An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding,' 1–2, 8

Cowper, William, 330

Crackanthorpe, Hubert: Albermarle, 616; Wreckage, 616

Crane, Stephen, 609

Crime: and detective novels, 501 -2; in Fielding's works, 114 -15; heredity and, 615 — 16; innocence and, 968 — 69; in sensation novels, 494 -95; as theme, 24, 33, 494 -95, 503, 970 — 72

Crisp, Samuel, 212, 215

Critical Review, The, 1010

Criticism: literary, 1–2; of modernists, 895- 96; of novels, 3–5, 7–9

Cromwell, Thomas, 834

Crusades: in Scott's novels, 315 — 19

Crystal Palace Exhibition, 484 — 85

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Culture, xiii — xiv, xv, xx, 13, 15–16, 19, 28, 63, 144, 222, 303, 320, 388, 394, 435, 718, 827, 945, 1007; British, xix, 918 -19, 940 — 42; challenges to, 221 23; changes in British, 107 — 8, 123 — 24, 403 — 4; in Conrad's works, 693 — 98; and imperialism, 653 — 56, 995; Indian, 830 — 31; literary, 108 — 9; morality and, 762 -63; novels' role in, 3–4, 17; and passion, 791 — 92; postmodernism and, 949 — 50; progress of, 431 — 32; sensation novels and, 479 — 80, 495 — 96; and sexuality, 591 -92; subversion of, 239 — 40

Cunningham-Graham, R. B., 686 — 87, 706

Dacre, Charlotte: Zafloya, 234 — 35

Daily News, 384

Daily Telegraph, 473

Dallas, E. S., 365 — 66; The Gay Science, 354

Dana, Richard Henry, 385

Danby, Frank. See Frankau, Julia

Dante Alighieri: Inferno, 856

D'Arblay, Alexandre, 207 -8

D'Arblay, Frances Burney, Mme. See Burney, Frances

Darnel, Aurelia, 144

Darwin, Charles, 438, 453; on natural selection, 610; The Origin of Species, 506

Darwin, Erasmus, 349

Davidoff, Leonore: Family Fortunes, 330

Davies, Emily, 430

Davy, Humphrey, 348

Davy, Mary: Reform'd Coquet, 332

Day, Thomas: The History of Sandford and Merton, 589

Day, William Patrick, 244

Day Lewis, C., 742

Death, 189, 310, 671, 790, 847, 971 — 72; in Beckett's works, 851 — 52; in Clarissa, 78–79; in Dickens's works, 400–402, 404; in Joyce's works, 785 — 86; sexuality and, 720, 843–844; as theme, 93, 770 — 71, 977

Decline and Fall of the British Empire, The, 711

Defoe, Daniel, 20, 50, 128, 132, 329; Captain Singleton, 23, 29–30, 33, 35–39, 47, 398; character development by, 40–48, 202; Colonel Jack, 23, 26, 29, 33, 36–38, 41–42, 45–46, 48; An Essay on Projects, 995; An Essay upon Literature, 36; forensics in, 33–34; history in work of, 26–27, 36–40; identity as theme in, 42–44; irony in, 33–35; A Journal of the Plague Year, 23, 31–34, 36, 42, 45, 47–48, 995; on meaning of experiences, 30–32; Memoirs of a Cavalier, 23, 28, 36, 39–40; Moll Flanders, 23–24, 26, 28–29, 32–33, 35–37, 40–46, 995; The Review, 995; Robinson Crusoe, xvi — xviii, 23–24, 26, 28–29, 31–36, 39–46, 567, 995; Roxana, 23–24, 26, 29–30, 33, 36, 40–41, 43–47, 202, 995; Serious Reflections [on] Robinson Crusoe, 26–27, 34; The Shortest Way with Dissenters, 995; structural style of, 24–25; The True-Born Englishman, 995; wealth as theme in, 29–30

Degeneracy, degeneration theory: of cities, 610- 11; as theme, 612 -16, 619 -23, 625, 627 -28

Dehumanization: war and, 913 — 14

Democracy: Liberal, 302

Demon-lovers, 228, 230

Dennis, Nigel, 895

Descartes, Renè, 846, 848, 857

Detective novels, 501 -3, 970

Determinism, 106 — 7