The Columbia History of the British Novel

-43; liberal, 511 -12; and lower class, 383 -85, 388; of modernists, 905 — 6; in narratives, 46–47; 1930s, 741 — 42; patriarchal, 331 -32, 349; and poverty, 510 — 11; in Roberts's work, 742 -43; Romantic writers and, 330 -32, 350; satire and, 115, 146; in sensation novels, 499–500; sexuality of, 495 — 96; in Charlotte Smith's work, 265 — 67, 330- 31; in Smollett's work, 264 — 65; and social issues, 512 — 13; and social reform, 508 -9

Polyglossia, xii, 680. See also Heteroglossia

Polynesia, 576

Pope, Alexander, 108, 148, 168 -69; Dunciad, 25, 146; Rape of the Lock, 202 — 3; satires by, 127 — 28

Populism: Dickens's, 383- 88

Pornography, 54, 86, 93, 719

Porter, Anna Maria, 328

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Porter, Jane, 328; Thaddeus of Warsaw, 339

Portuguese Letters, 51

Postal service, 457, 1013

Postmodemism, 579, 937, 939; Beckett and, 842 — 66; «playgiarism» and, 947 49

Potter, Beatrice, 613

Pound, Ezra, 728, 779, 819, 834, 905 — 6, 989

Pound & Co., 820

Poverty, 268, 434, 508 — 9, 567; Dickens's concerns with, 383 — 84; and politics, 510 — 11; as theme, 24, 522 — 23

Powell, Anthony, 746, 902, 967

Power, xv, 91, 105, 108 -9, 221, 409, 605; and identity, 487 — 89; in Lawrence's work, 735 — 36; in novel reading, 2–3; of professionals, 497–500; in society, 434 -36; subversive, 58–59; of women, 53, 495

Powys, John Cowper, 746

Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine-François: Manon Lescaut, 88

Prichard, James, 436

Priestly, J. B., 895 — 96

Priests and priesthood, 56, 155 -56, 342. See also Clergy

Primitivism, 189, 725

Proctor, Richard, 454

Professionals: gendering of, 494 -96; power of, 497–500; social identity of, 488 -89, 490 -91, 492 — 93

Property, 408, 445

Prostitutes and prostitution, 52, 85, 188, 393; in Gaskell's works, 524, 530; and seduction, 77 — 78

Protestantism, 45, 189, 342, 370, 591

Proust, Marcel, 582, 587, 715, 771, 906, 911

Psychoanalysis, 718, 938

Psychology, 73, 248, 250, 296, 308, 581, 716, 835; of children, 604 — 5; in Conrad's work, 685, 712; in Dickens's writing, 399–402. See also Universal Psychology

Public sphere: gentlemen and, 424 — 25

Pugh, Edwin, 624

Punch, 481, 1012

Punter, David, 244

Puppet shows, 103, 105 -6, 138

Puritanism, 24, 184 -85, 397

Pygmalion, 98

Pym, Barbara, 939, 941, 943; character development by, 946 — 47; Excellent Women, 1007; A Few Green Leaves, 945 — 46, 948 -49, 957 -58; A Glass of Blessings, 960 — 61, 1007; Less Than Angels, 1007; narrative style of, 948- 50; Quartet in Autumn, 940, 950, 958 -59, 1007; on science and technology, 945; Some Tame Gazelle, 943; The Sweet Dove Died, 946 -47, 958 -59, 961; on women, 957 -61

Quakers, 43, 990

Quetzalcoatl, 728, 734

Quixotism: English, 144 -45

Race: degeneracy and, 331, 334, 610 -11, 620, 622 -23, 634; Dickens on, 385, 388; Eliot on, 436- 37, 447 — 48; Lessing on, 928 — 29; Scott's treatment of, 303, 315 — 19; and sexuality, 688 -89; social Darwinism and, 573 — 74. See also Orientalism

Race-consciousness: Lawrence on, 721, 734- 35

Racism, 562, 693; and imperialism, 563, 645; Lawrence's, 724 -25

Radcliffe, Ann, 12, 224 -25, 320, 328, 331, 339; as Gothic novelist, 227 — 30; The Italian, 340, 342, 1007; on mas-

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Radcliffe, Ann (continued) culinity, 332; The Mysteries of Udolpho, 227 — 28, 340 — 44, 1007; The Romance of the Forest, 228 — 30, 1007; use of sublime by, 340- 45

Radcliffe, Mary-Ann: Manfroné, or, The One-Handed Monk, 230 — 32

Radcliffe, William, 1007

Radway, Janice, 59

Railways, 411, 438, 459

Raj, British, 633 — 47, 1009

Raleigh, Walter: The English Novel, 20

Rape, 253; in amatory fiction, 54, 57; in Richardson's novels, 79, 91, 93, 96–97; and sex, 61, 67, 69

Ray, Gordon, 477

Reade, Charles, 480, 504 — 5; The Autobiography of a Thief, 1007; Christie Johnstone, 1007; The Cloister and the Hearth, 1008; Foul Play, 1007; Griffith Gaunt, 1008; Hard Cash, 498, 1008; It Is Never Too Late to Mend, 569, 1007; Jack of All Trades, 1007; Love Me Little, Love Me Long, 1007- 8; Masks and Faces, 1007; Peg Woffington, 1007; Put Yourself in His Place, 1008Reader (journal), 471

Realism, xvii — xviii, 50, 129, 165, 216, 224, 294, 319, 503, 658 -59, 663, 715, 906 — 7, 911; demand for, 131 -32; in Dickens's work, 402 — 3; formal, 21, 28; Lawrence's use of, 732 — 34; magic, 977, 994; novelistic, xv, 21– 22; psychological, 504, 844; Richardson's use of, 93–94, 276; Smollett's use of, 135 — 37, 143 -45; Victorian, 379, 481; in Wells's work, 664 — 74

Realist/symbolist writing, 771 — 72

Reason: and passion, 252 -54, 259

Reeve, Clara, 4–5, 12, 21, 175, 320; The Champion of Virtue, 224, 1008; novel as multinational in, 19–20; The Old English Barn, 224, 1008; Old Manor House, 249 -50; The Progress of Romance, 1–3, 7–9, 11, 14–17, 1008

Reform: social, 83–84, 384 -85, 508 -9, 1003

Reform Acts, 386, 431, 438, 450, 495

Reformation, 591

Regeneration: as plot, 620 — 23

Regression, 580 — 81

Reid, Mayne: Rifle Rangers, 573

Relationships: between the sexes, 194, 807 -8; failed, 750 — 51

Religion, xiv, 45, 173, 415, 445, 449, 728, 730, 820; children in, 591, 593 -94; Dickens on, 385, 397 — 98; and sentimental novels, 184 — 85; and sexuality, 722 — 24; skepticism of, 432 — 33, 443; as theme, 79, 150, 983 — 84

Repression: political, 247 — 48

Research, 608, 725

Restoration, 13–14, 25, 34, 64, 185; comedy of, 88–91

Review, The (journal), 995