New Hedonism, 620 -21
New Imperialism, 562
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Newman, John Henry (Cardinal Newman), 428
New Poor Law, 384, 523
Newquist, Roy, 919
New Statesman (periodical), 896
New Towns, 914
New Woman fiction: themes in, 614 — 16, 620 — 23
New World, 150
New Yorker, 951
New York Review of Books, 941
New York Times Book Review, 904 — 5
New Zealand, 563, 576, 944
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 302, 725, 730
Nigeria, 636, 650
Nihilism, 831
Nineteenth-Century Fiction (periodical), 474
Nobel Prizes, 652, 991, 1000, 1003
Nordau, Max, 611, 619; Degeneration, 610
Normans, 315
Norris, Frank, 609
North America, 563, 727
Novak, Maximillian, 34
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), 686
Novellas, 1, 6, 51
Novel reading, 2–3, 5, 62–63, 327
Novels, 20; apologies for, xix — xx; cultural force of, 3–4; as dialogical, xii — xiii; rampant production of, 4–5; serious novels, 12; typology of, 12–13. See also by individual type
Nuns, 60, 65
Nursery rhymes, 589
Nuttall, Zelia: Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations, 725
Oaths, 63–64
Observer (periodical), 896
Oedipus complex, 222, 237
O'Faolain, Sean, 878
'Office of Intelligence: Or, Universal Register of Persons and Things, The,' 109
Okri, Ben, 942
Oliphant, Margaret, 352, 470, 501; 'Sensation Novels,' 483 — 84
Opie, Amelia, 328, 350; Adeline Mowbray, 331; 'The Father and the Daughter,' 339
Orientalism, 146 — 47, 644; in Eliot's novels, 449 — 50; in Scott's novels, 303, 314 — 19
Orientals: stereotyping of, 567 — 68, 572 — 73
Original Sin, 591
Orwell, George (Eric Arthur Blair), 867, 876; Animal Farm, 745, 1007; on bogusness, 872 — 74; Burmese Days, 643, 745, 1007; Coming Up for Air, 872 -73; Homage to Catalonia, 1007; on imperialism, 643, 744 — 45; 1984, 745, 873 -74, 888 — 90, 1007; The Road to Wigan Pier, 1007
Ouida, 496
Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan), 328; on sublime love, 344 — 46; The Wild Irish Girl, 344 -46, 565
Oxford University Press World's Classics, 456, 475
Pacifism, 727, 753
Paganism, 320 — 21, 730
Paine, Thomas, 248
Pamela Censured (Anonymous), 85, 93 — 94
Pankhurst, Christabel, 722
Paranoia, 241, 243 — 44
Parliament, 247 — 48
Parnell, Charles Stuart, 794
Parodies, 174, 385, 1013; of Richardson's work, 84–86, 110 — 11, 118 -19, 998
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Parry, James: True Anti-Pamela, 85
Party writers, 20
Passion, 339, 394, 751, 791; consequences of, 552 — 54; excess, 337 — 38; and reason, 252 -54, 259
Paston, George. See Symonds, Emily Morse
Patriarchy, 328, 333, 340, 350, 378, 380; domestic, 346 — 49; and identity, 311 — 12, 362; opposition to, 331 — 32; as theme, 46–47, 94, 97; violence of, 232, 342
Patronage, 34, 108, 128, 158, 386, 390
Pattison, Robert, 590 — 91
Paul, Herbert, 474
Paulin, Tom: 'In an Eweleaze Near Weatherbury,' 543
Peacock, Thomas Love: Crotchet Castle, 749; Headlong Hall, 749; Nightmare Abbey, 749
Pelham, Henry, 121
Penguin Books, 475
Penny Magazine, 387
People's Charter to Parliament, 523
Perera, Suvendrini, Reaches of Empire, 563
Pérez Galdós, Benito, 906
Peri Bathous, 169
Perkins, David, 17
Persecution, 269 — 70
Perversity: in Gothic novel, 232- 40
Phallocentrism, 177, 229
Phelps, William Lyon: Advance of the English Novel, 20
Philips, Katherine: 'Orinda,' 204
Phillips, Caryl, 656
Philosophy, 716, 847
Picaresque fiction, 132 -34, 137 — 39
Plantagenets, 313
'Playgiarism': and postmodernism, 947 -49
Plays, 132, 398, 763, 993, 1000, 1002, 1007; by Beckett, 847, 850, 854, 991; by Henry Fielding, 103 — 4, 124, 997; by Joyce, 765, 769
Plomer, William, 746
Poe, Edgar Alan, 947
Poetry, 307, 632, 661 — 62, 742, 989, 1001; satirical, 128, 132; sublime in, 342- 43
Police: establishment of, 109 — 10
Political novels, 508 -10
Politics, xviii, 15, 27, 121, 145, 247 — 48, 302, 353, 520, 909, 996, 1003, 1007, 1009; of AIDS, 985 — 86; in Bage's work, 267 — 68, 990; British, xix, 149 — 50, 1012; in Brontë's work, 359 — 60; of class, 321 — 24, 367 — 69, 383 — 84; in Conrad's work, 702 — 9, 713; in Dickens's work, 391 — 92; feminist, 217 — 18; gender and, 509 -10; in Godwin's work, 268 — 71, 999; government role and, 511 -12; in historical novels, 319, 322; Indian, 642
