Ackroyd, Peter, 114, 120, 123
Allen, Woody, 244
Ambassadors, The (television), 201
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 247
Amini, Hossein, 220–222, 226–227
Amis, Hilary (née Bardwell), 185, 191, 193–196
Amis, Kingsley, 79, 100, 182–199, 283; Ending Up, 197–198; I Like It Here, 191; Jake’s Thing, 194–195; Letters, 182–199; Lucky Jim, 191–192, 196; The Old Devils, 197; Stanley and the Women, 184, 195; Take a Girl Like You, 193; You Can’t Do Both, 193
Amis, Martin, 182–199, 249; Experience, 88, 182–186, 195, 198–199; The Information, 183, 199; Money, 184
Areté, 283
Arnold, Matthew, 103, 136, 147; “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” 94
Aspern Papers, The (play), 210
Atlantic Monthly, 119
Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assassin, 87; Cat’s Eye, 86
Auerbach, Erich: Mimesis, 57, 65–66
Austen, Jane, 46–49, 64, 116, 155, 158, 200; Emma, 47–48, 150, 200; Lady Susan, 46; Love and Friendship, 46; Sense and Sensibility, 46, 146, 200
Baker, Nicholson: The Mezzanine, 83–85; U and I, 88
Bakhtin, Mikhail, x, 55, 113, 285
Balzac, Honoré de, 17
Banville, John: The Book of Evidence, 86
Bardwell, Leonard, 191–192
Barnes, Julian, 183; Love, etc., 294–295
Barth, John, 81
Barthes, Roland: “Criticism as Language,” 105
Bayley, John: Iris, 184
BBC, 201
Beadnell, Maria, 127
Beardsley, Monroe C.: “The Intentional Fallacy,” 95–97, 109–111
Beckett, Samuel, 82
Beckinsale, Kate, 229
Bedford, Sybille: Jigsaw, 86
Beerbohm, Max, 284n
Bellow, Saul, 183, 185, 242
Bennett, Arnold, 51, 58, 119
Bentham, Jeremy, 16
Berkeley, George, 40
Bloom, Harold: The Western Canon, 104
Bloomsbury Group, 100, 139
Bogdanovich, Peter, 200
Bonham Carter, Helena, 220, 226
Booker Prize, 86, 197
Booth, Wayne: The Rhetoric of Fiction, 122
Born, Daniel, 136
Bostonians, The (film), 200, 205, 207–208, 227
Bradbury, Malcolm, 81
Braine, John, 79
Brentano, Franz, 15
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre, 44, 49, 151
Brown, Hablôt Knight, 117
Browning, Robert, 252, 255
Burney, Fanny: Camilla, 46–47
Butler, Joseph, 40
Byatt, A. S., 86
Byron, George Gordon, 116
Cambridge University, 95, 139, 141, 143, 194
Campion, Jane, 215–217, 219, 222, 228
Camus, Albert: The Outsider, 83, 85
Carlyle, Thomas, 142
Carroll, Lewis, 164; Alice in Wonderland, 175
Casanova, Giovanni, 255
Catholicism, 1, 76–77, 144, 162, 168, 170–171
Chalmers, David: The Conscious Mind, 8
Chomsky, Noam, 10
Christianity, 143–144, 178, 276
Collins, Wilkie: The Frozen Deep, 125–126
Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 165
Connolly, Cyril: Enemies of Promise, 189
Conquest, Robert, 195
Conrad, Joseph, 13, 57, 61, 64, 75, 119, 153, 159, 165, 197
Cooper, William, 79
Cornwell, John, 2
Cotterill, Rodney, 60
Crews, Frederick, 143
Crick, Francis, 7; The Astonishing Hypothesis, 1–2, 297
Daily Express, 169
Daily Mail, 158, 178
Daily News, 159
Daily Telegraph, 158
Daisy Miller (film), 200
Darwin, Charles, 7, 297
Dawkins, Richard, 6–7, 40
Defoe, Daniel, 39, 43–45; Moll Flanders, 43
de Havilland, Olivia, 201
de Man, Paul, 105
Demasio, Antonio: The Feeling of What Happens, 14–15, 39
Dennett, Daniel, 9, 15; Consciousness Explained, 1, 62, 89–91, 110–112, 297
Derrida, Jacques, 90, 104
Descartes, René, 39–40
Dickens, Catherine Hogarth, 121, 127–129
Dickens, Charles, 56, 114–134, 164, 176, 209; Barnaby Rudge, 118; Bleak House, 158; A Christmas Carol, 132; David Copperfield, 117, 129, 133; The Frozen Deep, 125–126; Great Expectations, 49, 123; Hard Times, 142; Martin Chuzzlewit, 118, 132; Master Humphrey’s Clock, 118; Nicholas Nickleby, 123–125; The Old Curiosity Shop, 118, 120; Oliver Twist, 118, 132; Our Mutual Friend, 133; The Pickwick Papers, 117–118, 123, 127–128; A Tale of Two Cities, 125
Disraeli, Benjamin: Coningshy, 142; Sybil, 142
Donovan, Martin, 215
Dostoevsky, Feodor: Notes from Underground, 252
Double Indemnity, 221
Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose, 119
Edelman, Gerald, 28, 61; Bright Air, Brilliant Fire, 11, 13, 113
Edgworth, Maria, 46
Eggers, Dave: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 88
Eliot, George, 56, 64, 102, 118, 133, 155, 209; Middlemarch, 49, 146
Eliot, T. S., 70, 92, 94–95, 101, 105–108; “The Function of Criticism,” 94, 102–103; “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 97; The Waste Land, 165, 172, 178, 273
Emma (film), 200
Europeans, The (film), 200–201, 211, 227
Fagin, Bob, 130
Fairlie, Henry, 193–194
Fielding, Helen, 270
Fielding, Henry, 43–46, 56, 164; Joseph Andrews, 44; Tom Jones, 44–45
Finney, Albert, 212
Firbank, Ronald, 69–70, 73, 166
Fish, Stanley, 105
Ford, Ford Madox, 57, 61, 119, 165
Forster, E. M., 57n, 135–160; Aspects of the Novel, 155, 158; Howards End, 135–138, 140–160, 227; Maurice, 160; A Passage to India, 135, 159; A Room with a View, 227; Where Angels Fear to Tread, 140
Forster, John, 120, 130, 134
Fowles, John, 81
Fox, James, 229
Francis, Dick, 197
Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections, 88n
Freud, Sigmund, 6, 15, 58–62, 100, 130
Furbank, P. N., 159
Gaddis, William, 241
Galsworthy, John, 17, 51, 58, 119, 159
Garnett, Edward, 61, 159
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 118; Mary Barton, 142; North and South, 142
Geertz, Clifford, 89
Gielgud, John, 215
Gogol, Nicolai, 257
Golden Bowl, The (film), 200–201, 211, 227–233; (television), 201
Grant, Richard E., 215
Green, Henry, 64, 81, 165; Concluding, 80–81; Doting, 80; Living, 73; Nothing, 80
Greene, Graham, 64, 80, 98, 106, 165; Brighton Rock, 77–78; The End of the Affair, 76; The Power and the Glory, 76; The Third Man, 76; Ways of Escape, 108, 281
Greenfield, Susan: The Human Brain, 40
Guardian, 4
Guardian Fiction Prize, 3–4
Hampl, Patricia, 109–110
Hardy, Thomas, 110, 119, 155; Jude the Obscure, 220; A Pair of Blue Eyes, 209–210
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 255
Hegel, G. W. F., 276
Hemingway, Ernest, 70, 190; “Big Two-hearted River,” 71; “Hills Like White Elephants,” 71; “The Killers,” 71–72
Hershey, Barbara, 215
Hitchens, Christopher, 198
Hogarth, Georgina, 126, 129
Hogarth, Mary, 129
Holden, Stephen, 220
Holland, Agnieszka, 212
Holocaust, 4, 187, 198, 237
Homer, 57; Odyssey, 273
Hornby, Nick: Fever Pitch, 88; How To Be Good, 35
Household Words, 118
Howard
, Elizabeth Jane, 185, 194, 196
Howards End (film), 227
Hume, David, 40
Huston, Anjelica, 229
Independent Review, 139, 141–142
International Dictionary of Psychology, 6
Isherwood, Christopher, 64, 80, 165; Goodbye to Berlin, 74, 190; Lions and Shadows, 74
Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day, 83, 86, 227
Ivory, James, 200–201, 205, 227, 229
Jacobs, Eric, 195
James, Henry, 49–51, 61, 64, 70, 107–108, 119, 133, 153, 158, 165, 200–233, 243, 283–286; The Ambassadors, 56, 201, 297; “The Art of Fiction,” 51; The Aspern Papers, 210; The Bostonians, 200, 205–208, 227; Daisy Miller, 200; The Europeans, 200–201, 211, 227; The Golden Bowl, 56, 200–201, 211, 227–233; Guy Domville, 202; The Portrait of a Lady, 74–75, 200–201, 203–205, 209, 211, 215–220, 222, 228–229; The Spoils of Poynton, 201; The Turn of the Screw, 57, 201, 210; Washington Square, 200–201, 211–215, 218; The Wings of the Dove, 29–30, 32–38, 56, 200–201, 209, 211, 220–228
James, William, 14–15
Jews, 4, 187, 237, 242–244
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 227
Johns, Jasper, 241
Johnson, Edgar, 114
Johnson, Samuel, 116
Jonson, Ben: Every Man in His Humour, 123
Jordan, Neil, 99–100
Joyce, James, 35, 57, 61, 64, 70, 75, 80, 119, 153, 165, 190, 199, 209, 299; Finnegans Wake, 62–63; Ulysses, 51–56, 62, 65, 273, 285
Jude, 220
Jung, Carl G., 6, 58
Kafka, Franz, 237, 257
Kant, Immanuel, 15
Kaplan, Fred, 114
Kavanagh, Pat, 183
Kazin, Alfred, 236
Kelman, James: A Disaffection, 86
Keynes, John Maynard, 139
Kidman, Nicole, 215–216
Kierkegaard, Søren, 27, 268–282, 297; The Concept of Dread, 274; Diary of a Seducer, 277; Either/Or, 255, 274–275; Journals, 279; Repetition, 277, 279
Koch, Cristof, 7
Kott,Jan, 116
Kundera, Milan, 31–32; The Joke, 290
Laclos, Choderlos de: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 44, 255
Larkin, Philip, 185, 187–196; “An Arundel Tomb,” 263; Letters, 182, 186
Last Tango in Paris, 223
Last Year at Marienbad, 79
Lawrence, D. H., 57, 61–62, 64, 98–99, 119, 153, 165, 177, 209; Sons and Lovers, 59; Women in Love, 146
Lawrence, Frieda, 59
Leader, Zachary, 182–183, 186, 189, 195
Leavis, F. R., 16, 103, 152–153; The Great Tradition, 133
Lee, Hermione, 59
Leigh, Jennifer Jason, 212
Levi, Primo: If This Is a Man, 187
Levine, Joseph, 8
Lewes, George Henry, 102
Locke, John, 15, 40
Lodge, David: After Bakhtin, x; Ginger, You’re Barmy, 285; Language of Fiction, ix, 297; The Modes of Modern Writing, ix; Nice Work, 90, 269, 273, 295; Out of the Shelter, 285; Paradise News, 273; The Picturegoers, 284–285; Small World, 106, 273, 299; Therapy, 268–282, 284, 297; Thinks . . . , x, 6, 12, 20, 29–33, 81, 283–300; Working with Structuralism, ix
London, Jack: The People of the Abyss, 141
Lowrie, Walter, 269, 273
Lubbock, Percy, 158
MacCabe, Patrick: The Butcher Boy, 83
Mackenzie, Compton, 119
MacLeish, Archibald, 96
Mailer, Norman, 242
Malkovich, John, 215, 217
Mansfield, Katherine, 151–152
Marvell, Andrew: “The Garden,” 12
Masterman, C. F. G.: The Condition of England, 142, 149; From the Abyss, 141–144
Mauriac, François, 76–77
Maxwell, Nicholas, 16, 42
McEwan, Ian, 42, 197; Atonement, 86–87, 88n
Merchant, Ismail, 200–201, 205, 227
Meredith, George, 156
Michael Collins, 99
Michaels, Ann: Fugitive Pieces, 3–5, 12–13
Mildred Pierce, 221
Miller, Henry, 255
Milton, John, 105
Minsky, Marvin, 60
Modigliani, Amedeo, 261
Monod, Jacques, 61
Moore, G. E.: Principia Ethica, 139
Morrison, Blake: And When Did You Last See Your Father?, 88, 184
Morrison, Toni, 241
Morton, Thomas, 255
Murdoch, Iris, 196
Nabokov, Vladimir, 185, 199, 243; Lolita, 82; Pnin, 236
Nation, 159
New Criticism, 95, 103, 165
New Statesman, 190
New York Review of Books, 245
New York Times, 220
Nichols, Peter: Passion Play, 299
Nobel Prize, 246–247
Nolte, Nick, 229
Northam, Jeremy, 229
Notting Hill, 200
Old Testament, 57
Olsen, Regine, 273, 276–278, 280
Orange Prize, 3
Orwell, George, 64; The Clergyman’s Daughter, 80; Coming Up for Air, 82
Oxford Companion to the Mind, 8
Oxford English Dictionary, 4, 63–64, 117
Oxford University, 73, 168–169, 171, 185, 188, 193
Parks, Tim: Europa, 83
Penrose, Roger, 23
Piaget, Jean, 24
Piano, The, 215
Pinker, Steven, 9
Plato, 4, 251
Portrait of a Lady, The (film), 200–201, 205, 209, 211, 215–220, 222
Postman Always Rings Twice, The, 221
Potter, Madeleine, 230
Pound, Ezra, 70
Powell, Anthony, 64, 72–73, 80, 82, 165; Afternoon Men, 66, 68–69; A Dance to the Music of Time, 82
Powers, Richard: Galatea 2.2, 20–28
Preece, Patricia, 261
Priestley, J. B., 119
Proust, Marcel, 17, 82–84; A la recherche du temps perdu, 18, 34, 155
Rabelais, François, 191
Raine, Craig, 283–300
Ramachandran, V. S., 9, 28, 60–61
Raverat, Jacques, 63
Reid, Thomas, 40
Remains of the Day, The (film), 227
Resnais, Alain, 79
Richards, Frank, 190
Richards, I. A., 95, 103
Richardson, Dorothy, 119
Richardson, Samuel, 39, 43–46, 116; Clarissa, 43–44, 255; Pamela, 43–44
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 78–79
Room with a View, A (film), 227
Rorty, Richard, 307n1
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 169
Roth, Philip, 242, 248–267; American Pastoral, 87, 249; The Breast, 251, 257; The Dying Animal, 87, 250–267; The Human Stain, 87, 249–250; I Married a Communist, 87, 249; The Professor of Desire, 251, 256; Sabbath’s Theater, 248
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Julie, 44
Rushdie, Salman, 101, 196–197, 283; Midnight’s Children, 119
Russian Formalists, 81, 272
Ryle, Gilbert: The Concept of Mind, 5
Sage, Lorna: Bad Blood, 88
Salinger, J. D., 242; The Catcher in the Rye, 82
Samaritans, 270, 309n3
Schiele, Egon, 227
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 146
Schlegel, Johan Frederik, 278, 280
Schlegel, Wilhelm von, 146
Scott, Walter, 116
Scrutiny, 189
Seale, Delilah, 183, 199
Sense and Sensibility (film), 200
Seymour, Robert, 117
Shakespeare, William, 114–116, 123; Richard II, 156; The Tempest, 28
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein, 25
Sillitoe, Alan, 79; Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 82–83
Smiley, Jane: Charles Dickens, 115, 120–123, 129–134
Smith, Maggie, 212
Smollett, Tobias, 164
Snow, C. P., 16, 79; The New Men, 17–19, 82; Strangers and Brothers, 17, 82
Softley, lain, 220, 227–228
Spark, Muriel, 81
Spectator, 190, 287
Spencer, Stanley, 260–261, 266
Spender, Stephen, 189
Spengler, Oswald: The Decline of the West, 170
Spoils of Poynton, The (television), 201
Stein, Gertrude, ix, 2, 70, 283
Sterne, Laurence, 40, 164; Tristram Shandy, 83
Stoppard, Tom: Professional Foul, 239
Strachey, James, 59
Strachey, Lytton, 59, 139
Sutherland, Stuart, 6, 10
Symbolists, 70
Tablet, The, 1–2
Ternan, Ellen (Nelly), 126–129, 131
Ternan, Fanny, 126
Ternan, Frances, 126
Ternan, Maria, 126
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 118, 128, 164, 209
Thatcher, Margaret, 137–138
Theroux, Paul: Sir Vidia’s Shadow, 88
Third Man, The (film), 76
Thomas, Dylan, 189; Under Milk Wood, 285
Thompson, Francis, 78
Thornton, Marianne, 138
Thurman, Uma, 229
Thwaite, Anthony, 186
Times Literary Supplement, 158–159, 303n4
Tomalin, Claire, 127, 220
Trefil, James, 8, 23
Tremain, Rose: Restoration, 86
Trilling, Lionel: E. M. Forster, 135
Trollope, Anthony, 17
Turn of the Screw, The (film and television), 201; (play), 210
University College Dublin, 99
Updike, John, 234–247; Bech: A Book, 235–237, 242; Bech at Bay, 235–247; Bech Is Back, 235–236, 239
Vidal, Gore, 236
Vonnegut, Kurt, 81
Wain, John, 79, 100; Living in the Present, 192
Walsh, John: The Falling Angels, 184
Warner, Alan: Morven Callar, 83
Washington Square (film), 200–201, 211–215; The Heiress (play), 201, 210–211
Watson, James, 2
Watt, Ian: The Rise of the Novel, 39–40, 43, 45
Waugh, Alec: The Loom of Youth, 168
Waugh, Evelyn, 64, 69–70, 72–74, 80, 161–181; The Balance, 73; Black Mischief 162, 174–175; Brideshead Revisited, 162; Decline and Fall, 161, 164, 167, 169, 180; A Handful of Dust, 170, 176–178; Labels, 170; A Little Learning, 169; 92 Days, 175; Put Out More Flags, 180–181; Remote People, 174–175; Scoop, 162, 164, 178–180; Sword of Honour trilogy, 181; Vile Bodies, 66–69, 73, 162, 170–173, 175
Waugh, Evelyn Gardner, 169–170
Waugh, Patricia, 16
Webster, John, 228
Webster, Richard: Why Freud Was Wrong, 60
Wells, H. G., 51, 58; The Time Machine, 25
Welsh, Irvine, 283, 285
Welty, Eudora, 41
Westminster Gazette, 159
Wilde, Oscar, 104; “The Critic as Artist,” 103, 106
Williams, Raymond: The Country and the City, 145