The Columbia History of the British Novel

Socialism, 614, 725 — 27, 908

Social issues, 901; in Mary Barton, 521 — 23; in Pamela, 76–77; politics and, 512 — 13; women's, 330 -31

Social order, 59, 128; changing, 333 — 34, 829, 834, 839. See also Class

Social organization, 534, 703

Social-problem novels, 508

Social theory, 610 — 11

Society, xviii — xix, xx — xxi, 21, 27, 52, 76, 139, 217, 279, 296, 408, 447, 624, 820, 839, 944; in Berlin, 759 — 61; Brontë's depictions of, 359 — 60; changes in, 112 -13, 742 — 43; and community, 725 -27; depictions of, 264 — 65, 357; individual and, 790 — 91, 823 — 24; 1930s, 744 — 46, 752 — 53; power in, 434 — 36; progress of, 431 — 32; protection of, 706 -7; responsibility to, 247, 253; restructuring, 907- 8; schisms in, 827 — 28; sensibility in, 80–81; Smollett on, 140 — 41; Wells's views on, 667 — 68; women in, 62–63, 354 — 55, 366 — 67, 370 — 73; World War I and, 757 -59

Sociology, 725

Sodomy, 136, 719 — 20

Somers, Jane, 924 — 25. See also Lessing, Doris

South Africa, 562 -63, 575 -76, 636, 928 — 29, 1009

South Sea Bubble, 128, 130, 669

South Seas, 576

Sovereignty: political, 34–35

Soyinka, Wole, 652; Ake, 650; Isara, 650

Spain: civil war in, 741 — 42

Spark, Muriel: Territorial Rights, 967 Spectator (periodical), 407, 424, 460, 470, 896, 899

Speech, xii, 104, 398. See also Language

Speke, John Hanning: Discovery of the Sources of the Nile, 573

Spence, Lewis: Gods of Mexico, 725

Spencer, Herbert, 391, 438, 453; Education, 725; First Principles, 442

Spencer, Jane, 201, 205, 216, 332; Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, 218

Spender, Stephen, 742; The Creative Element, 743

Spinoza, Baruch, 443

Spivak, Gayatri, 352, 369

Spying: as theme, 36, 537, 545, 554

Spy novels, 131, 901

Stables, Gordon, 573

Stanley, Henry Morton: How I Found Livingstone, 573; My Kalulu, 573

Stapledon, Olaf, 302

Staves, Susan, 64

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Stead, Christina, 587

Steel, Flora Annie: On the Face of the Waters, 571

Steele, Richard, 20, 407, 424

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), xv, 906, 911

Stephen, Fitzjames, 386

Stephen, Leslie, 1015

Stereotypes, 143; of Africa, 573 — 75; Dickens's use of, 392 — 93; gender, 195 — 96, 605; Romantic imperial, 567 — 68; satire and, 900–901; Victorian imperial, 569, 571- 72

Sterne, Laurence, xiii, 20, 128, 179, 182, 258, 308, 329; celebrity of, 157 — 59, 161; criticism of, 174 — 77; and Johnson, 161- 62; life of, 155 — 56; The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 146, 151 — 52, 154 — 57, 159, 162 — 78, 1011; on Locke, 170 -72; narrative structure of, 172 — 73; narrative style of, 159- 61, 163 — 65; Political Romance, 1011; as satirist, 168 — 70, 173 — 74, 177 -78; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, 158, 162, 166, 170, 184 — 85, 191 — 94, 1011; Sermons of Mr. Yorick, 159; use of sensibility by, 166 -68

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 573, 588; The Beach of Falesá, 576 -77; The EbbTide, 576; Kidnapped, 1011; The Master of Ballantrae, 1011; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 615; Treasure Island, 1011; Weir of Hermiston, 1011

Stoker, Bram: Dracula, 577, 616

Storey, David, 895

Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin, 567

Strachey, Lytton, 904

Strauss, David Friedrich: Life of Jesus, 432, 443, 997

Stuart, Charles Edward (Bonnie Prince Charlie), 121, 123

Stuarts, 34, 121, 123, 313, 317

Sublime: of love, 344 — 46; of nature, 343 — 44; terror of, 340 -44

Suburban life, 624 — 25

Subversion, 237, 239 — 40

Suffrage: women's, 721 — 22

Suicide, 1015; as theme, 815 — 16; as vehicle, 75, 210 — 13, 744, 844, 976

Suleri, Sara, 636; Rhetoric of English India, 647

Summers, Montagu, 52–53

Sunday Times, 896

Super, R. H., 475

Supernatural agency, 220, 320 — 21

Supremacism: British, 449, 450 — 51

Surr, Thomas, 328

Surveillance: and sexual desire, 241 — 42

Swift, Graham, 967; Ever After, 974, 1011; Out of This World, 974, 1011; Shuttlecock, 970; The Sweetshop Owner, 974, 1011; Waterland, 973 -74, 977, 1011

Swift, Jonathan, 108, 144, 168- 69, 1005; The Battle of the Books, 1012; Gulliver's Travels, 41, 130 — 31, 135, 146, 151, 947, 1012; satire of, 127 — 28, 1012; A Tale of a Tub, 25, 129, 145, 169, 1012

Switzerland, 306

Sykes, Christopher, 878

Symbolism, 77, 106, 839, 995; of children, 592 -93, 594 -96

Symonds, Emily Morse: A Writer of Books, 608 — 9

Sympathy, 165 — 66

Taine, Hippolyte, 9, 11, 19, 395

Tatler (periodical), 407, 424

Taylor, Philip Meadows: Confessions of a Thug, 570 -72, 576; Ralph Darnell, 1012; Seeta, 571, 1012; Tara, 1012

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Taylor, Rachel, 717

Templeton, Laurence, 306. See also Scott, Walter

Tenniel, John, 598

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 402

Ten-Pound Householders, 386

Ternan, Ellen, 504

Terror, 227, 229, 247

Terry, R. C., 474