The Columbia History of the British Novel

The Moon and Sixpence, 1006; Razor's Edge, 1006

Maupassant, Guy de, Une vie, 675

Maxwell, John, 992

Mayhew, Thomas: London Labour and the London Poor, 436

Mayoux, Jean-Jacques, 174

Medicine: in sensation novels, 488 — 92, 497 — 98

Melville, Lewis, 474

Men, xv, 112, 195, 224, 394; behavior of, 255 — 57; in Brontë's works, 361 — 62; emotions of, 250 — 51, 791 — 93; eroticism of, 721 — 22; married, 51–52; nature of, 60–61; as novel writers, xvi, 217, 304; oppression by, 177 — 78; passion and, 791 -92; in Richardson's novels, 74, 78–81; sexual desire of, 54–55; trust of, 211 — 12

Meredith, George, 316, 382, 404; Diana of the Crossways, 429

Meritocracy, 907 — 8

Merriman, Henry: Flotsam, 571

Messenger, Ann, 67

Methodism, 150

Mexicans, 724

Mexico, 727 — 28, 735

Meyers, Jeffrey, 720, 729

Middle class, xviii, 74, 152, 200, 328, 368, 370, 482, 498, 588, 646; and Dickens, 385 — 89, 404; social reform by, 508 — 9; values of, 83, 221 — 23, 334, 369

Military, 112, 632; and gentlemanliness, 416, 418, 420 -22

Mill, John Stuart, 391, 453; An Essay on Liberty, 506

Miller, Christopher L., 648 — 49

Miller, J. Hillis, 389, 401, 537 — 38, 542 — 43

Miller, Nancy, 954; 'Emphasis Added,' 951; Subject to Change, 444

Millett, Kate, 731; Sexual Politics, 729

Millgate, Jane, 306

Milton, John: Paradise Lost, 4, 119, 167, 612, 902

Mind: operation of, 170 — 72

Mining and miners, 720, 727

Mirror (magazine), 1005

Mirroring: literary, 585

Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction (journal), 387

Mo, Timothy, 656, 973; An Insular Possession, 636

Modern age, xi — xii, xiv

Modernism and modernists, xix, 154, 579, 615, 659, 702, 819, 834; Beckett and, 855 — 56; criticism of, 897–900, 902- 7; in Forster's work, 821, 829, 831; Joyce and, 780 -81; Lawrence and, 715 — 17; 1930s, 743 — 44; rejection of, 947 — 48; Waugh and, 879, 884

Moers, Ellen, 244

Monastic life, 238 — 39

Money, 45 — 46

Montagu, Mary Wortley, 73, 94

Moore, George Edward (G. E.), 820, 822

Moore, George Augustus, 677; The Brook Kerith, 1006; Confessions of a Young Man, 616; Esther Waters, 616- 18; Evelyn Innes, 616, 1006; Heloise and Abelard, 1006; A Modern Lover, 613, 1006; A Mummer's Wife, 613, 1006; Sister Teresa, 616, 1006

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Moors Murders, 910

Moral character, morality, xx — xxi, 13, 188, 257, 356, 383, 534, 685, 716, 901; children's books and, 589 — 90; culture and, 762 — 63; in Defoe's works, 29, 35–36; in Dickens's works, 390 — 91, 398, 401; and natural order, 541 — 42; in Richardson's writing, 73, 79, 81, 87, 97–98, 247 — 48; in Tristram Shandy, 175 — 76; women and, 330, 371 — 72; in Wuthering Heights, 373 — 74

Moral devices: narrators as, 41–42

Moralism, 618 — 19, 625 — 26, 730, 820

More, Hannah, 251, 336, 342; Coelebs in Search of a Wife, 332; The Fairchild Family, 589

Morgan, Lady. See Owenson, Sydney

Morgan, William de, 623

Morier, James: The Adventures of Hajii Baba, of Ispahan, 567 — 68, 571

Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 734

Morris, William, 590

Morrison, Arthur: Child of the Jago, 614; 'Lizerunt,' 614

Morrison, Toni, 588

Mother Goose tales, 589

Mother Nature, 348

Mothers and motherhood, 347, 497, 588; in Gothic novels, 225 — 28, 235; in Isherwood's works, 747, 755 — 56; role of, 348- 49. See also Maternity

Motion picture(s), 746, 748, 878

Mullen, Richard, 475

Muller, Max: Lectures on the Science of Language, 442

Murder, 910, 968 — 70; in Dickens's works, 393, 401; in Gothic novels, 235 -36, 239 — 40; as vehicle, 744 — 46

Murdoch, Iris, 895, 943, 967

Murray, Hugh: The Morality of Fiction, 188, 192 — 93

Murray, Middleton, 733

Mussolini, Benito, 741

Mystery, mysteries, 489 -90, 503, 903, 967, 995 — 96

Mythology, 725, 728

Nabokov, Vladimir, 582, 587, 903; Lolita, 899; Pnin, 899

Nagasaki, Japan, 972 -73

Naipaul, V. S., 636, 650; Among the Believers, 1007; A Bend in the River, 648, 651 — 54, 1007; A Congo Diary, 1007; The Enigma of Arrival, 654, 656; In a Free State, 652, 1006; Guerrillas, 653, 1007; A House for Mr. Biswas, 653, 1006; India, 1007; The Mimic Men, 652, 654; The Mystic Masseur, 653, 1006; The Return of Eva Peron, 1007

Napier, Elizabeth, 244 — 45

Napoleonic Wars, 294, 357, 565

Narayan, R. K., 653

Narrators: as moral devices, 41–42

Nationalism: Eliot on, 447 -48; English, 388 — 89; Indian, 642 — 43, 831; of novel, 19–21

National Review, 460

Naturalism, 503, 623, 629, 730; decline in, 610 — 11; French, 608 — 10, 616 — 17, 625 -26; modification of, 617 — 18

Naturalist fiction, 609 -10

Nature, 130, 151, 348, 616; and moral order, 541 -42; sublime in, 343 — 44

Nazism, 726, 729, 794, 906; cultural morality and, 762 -63

Neilson, Donald, 969 -70

Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, duke of, 146

New Critics, 631

New Freewoman (journal), 1014