INDEX

Numbers in italic indicate an illustration. Names in italic indicate fictional characters.

Adam Bede, 285

Adorno, Theodor W., 55, 140

Aeschylus, 211

Albee, Edward, 142

Andrea del Sarto, 270

Arendt, Hannah, 157

Ariel, 160

Ariosto, Ludovico, 136

Arnold, Matthew, 206

Arthur, Bea, 35, 36

Arvin, Newton, 284

Ashbery, John, 57, 92, 104, 186

Athena, 153

Auden, W. H., 60, 112, 137, 197, 201, 205, 277, 278

Auerbach, Erich, 225, 227

Augustine, 108

Austen, Jane, 50, 103, 133, 158, 175, 182, 217, 276

The Author’s Mother, 19–20, 25, 32–3, 52, 81–2, 88–9, 97–8, 99–100, 139, 217–18, 226, 245–46, 279, 300, 309

Avery, Milton, 302

Avgvstini, S., 174

Bacon, Francis, xix, 18, 80, 82–3, 148

Badiou, Alain, 49

Barbellion, W. N. P., 215

Barnes, Hazel, 230

Barthes, Roland, 91, 173, 207, 243

Bataille, Georges, 128–29

Bate, W. Jackson, 82

Baudelaire, Charles, 86

Beach Boys, the, 87, 122

Beaumont, George, 305

Beckett, Samuel, 263–64

Belle, 244

Benjamin, Walter, 12n2, 17n3, 81, 82, 106, 184, 199, 210, 240, 243, 311

Berger, Harry, Jr., 64

Berlin, Isaiah, 74

Bettelheim, Bruno, 111

Bishop, Elizabeth, 120, 128, 257–58, 262, 275, 278, 287, 300, 314, 315n2

Blake, William, 35, 73, 244

Bloom, Harold, 141

Bogart, Humphrey, 100

Bolaño, Roberto, 193

Borges, Jorge Luis, 248, 282

Boswell, James, 36, 41, 177

Bradstreet, Anne, 144

Brautigan, Richard, 207

Brontë, Charlotte, 17n5, 111, 148

Brower, Reuben A., 102

Browne, Jackson, 160, 194, 307

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 184, 270, 289

Burkhardt, Jacob, 305

Burton, Richard, 156

Burton, Robert, 147

Bynner, Witter, 71, 217

Byron, George Gordon (Lord), 192, 244

Camus, Albert, 134, 216

Canby, Vincent, 21–2

Candy, John, 216–17

Capote, Truman, 39

Caro, Robert, 94

Cassavetes, John, 21

Catullus, 256

Cavell, Stanley, 88, 218

Certeau, Michel de, 123

Cervantes, Miguel de, 8, 118

Chandler, Raymond, 156, 169

Channing, William Ellery, 209

Chaplin, Charlie, 40

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 221

Clinton, Bill, 305

Cohen, Leonard, 119

Coldplay, 240

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 13, 156, 286

Crane, Hart, 113, 122, 152, 182, 284, 315

Crane, Stephen, 14, 251

Creuzer, F., 199

Cruise, Tom, 285

Curtius, Ernst Robert, 150

Cusack, John, 152

Daniel Deronda, 143, 177, 237

Dante, 131, 132, 136, 163, 244, 266

Darwin, Charles, 171, 179, 309

Daston, Lorraine J., 18

Davie, Donald, 133

Delbanco, Andrew, 219

Deleuze, Gilles, 76

De Quincey, Thomas, 10–1, 33–4, 54, 133, 164

Dickens, Charles, 40, 65, 78, 147, 156, 184, 187, 202, 211, 241, 252, 267, 277, 311

Dickinson, Emily, 95

Dole, Bob, 305, 307

Don Juan, 244, 245

Donne, John, 138, 291

Donoghue, Denis, 92

Don Quixote, xviii, 7–9, 118

Dorian Gray, 57, 165–66

Drury, Maurice O’Connor, 278

Du Maurier, Daphne, 201

Dupee, F. W., 81

Durkheim, Émile, 11n1

Edinger, William, 285

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 81, 140

Eliade, Mircea, 124

Eliot, George, 1, 44n3–4, 58, 61, 62, 63n1, 73, 88, 95, 99, 110, 112, 118–19, 143, 161, 177, 181, 184, 185, 186, 194, 234, 237, 249, 273, 274, 285, 287, 317, 319

Eliot, T. S., 41, 86, 166, 170, 190

Ellmann, Richard, 248

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 13, 146, 185, 186, 189, 196, 209

Emma, 182, 276

Empson, William, 200

Fagin, 267

Faulkner, William, 191

Feuerbach, L., 204

Fey, Tina, 35–6

Fields, Dorothy, 285

Finley, M. I., 130

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 125, 145, 146, 176, 233

Fitzgerald, Robert, 130, 153

Fleming, Art, 171

Fletcher, Angus, 125, 147

Forster, E. M., 24, 89, 117, 242, 305

Freud, Sigmund, 47, 97, 103, 136, 190, 273, 278, 303

Frost, Robert, 74, 86, 115, 124, 172, 181, 221, 279, 296, 308

Frye, Northrop, 111

Galison, Peter, 18

García Márquez, Gabriel, 63n2

Garfinkel, Harold, 179

Gibbon, Edward, 87

Gibson, W., 259

Gill, Brendan, 121

Goffman, Erving, 56, 151

Goody, Jack, 224

Grahame, Kenneth, 38, 262, 263, 310, 310

Granovetter, Mark, 5

Guattari, Félix, 76

Hadot, Pierre, 152, 235

Hamlet, 124, 199, 247

Hammerstein, Oscar, 313

Hanks, Tom, 216

Hardy, Thomas, 182

Hazlitt, William, 92, 163

Heaney, Seamus, 108, 109, 218

Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich, 72, 189, 190

Heidegger, Martin, 151, 283

Heimert, Alan, 219

Hellman, Lillian, 239

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, 275

Hepburn, Katherine, 100

Herbert, George, 294

Hercules, 97

Herrick, Robert, 222

Hesiod, 48–9

Hoffmann, Etienne, 100

Holland, Laurence B., 154

Hollander, John, 215

Hollander, M., 41

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 31, 85, 101, 133, 134, 157, 202, 210, 212, 229, 259, 260, 299, 319

Houghton, Walter E., 114

Housman, A. E., 149

Hume, David, 201

Humphrey, Hubert, 42–3, 44n1

Husserl, Edmund, 89, 265

J. Alfred Prufrock, 166, 170, 190

Jackson, Andrew, 29

James, Henry, 1, 74–5, 81, 153, 154, 178, 210, 238

James, William, 86, 143, 238

Jane Eyre, 111, 148

Jarrell, Randall, 92

John Shade, 296

Johnson, Lyndon, 94–5, 125

Johnson, Samuel, 35–6, 78–9, 197, 285

Joyce, James, 48, 66, 270

Kael, Pauline, 91

Kafka, Franz, 69, 81, 254, 258

Kahn, Louis, xvi

Kant, Immanuel, 33–4

Kazin, Alfred, 98

Keats, John, 110, 176–77, 303

Keller, James, 258–59

Kennedy, John F., 19–20, 94–5, 221, 223

Kenner, Hugh, 86

Kierkegaard, Søren, 169, 279

Kilmer, Joyce, 137

King Lear, 183

Kirstein, Lincoln, 159

Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 90

Kurosawa, Akira, 2

Lady Macbeth, 142

Laing, R. D., 76

Lamb, Charles, xix

Lanz, Henry, 155

Laplanche, Jean, 157

La Rochefoucauld, François de, 65, 170

Lawrence, D. H., 203

Lee, Harper, 188

Lewalski, Barbara K., 48–9

Lichtheim, George, 172

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 66–7, 219

Lin Yutang, 29–0

Little Dorrit, 64–5, 252

Lolita, 30–1, 86, 171

Lovell, Ernest J., Jr., 192

Lukács, György, 148

Macbeth, 92, 142, 143

Macherey, Pierre, 282, 283

Maclean, Norman, 289, 292, 308

Macpherson, C. B., 31

Mailer, Norman, 42–3, 44nn1–2

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 125

Manilow, Barry, 263

Marcus, Steven, 267

Marcus Aurelius, 152, 187, 280

Marcuse, Herbert, 224

Marlowe, Christopher, 135

Marvell, Andrew, 105

Mather, Cotton, 169

McCarthy, Mary, 96, 157, 246

Melville, Herman, 68, 121, 134, 159

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 46

Merrill, James, 60, 71, 99, 102, 112, 136, 169, 171, 174, 194, 200, 204, 230, 236, 241, 243, 246, 256, 272, 317

Merritt, Herbert Dean, 109

Michelangelo, 178

Mill, John Stuart, 74, 167

Milner, Marion, 298

Milton, John, xxiii, 10, 61, 149–50, 164, 197, 204, 251, 262

Mirabell, 204

Miss Bates, 50

Mitchell, Joni, 98–9, 133, 213, 257, 267, 290

Montaigne, Michel de, 26, 209, 225

Moore, Clement Clarke, 154

Moore, Marianne, 34, 123

Moss, Howard, 128

Mrs. Dalloway, 139

Murrow, Edward R., 240

Nabokov, Vladimir, 30–1, 86, 96, 140, 171–72, 296

Natanson, Maurice, 89, 265

Newman, John Henry, 107n1

Nunokawa, Jeff, 42, 52

O’Connor, Flannery, 298

Odysseus, 130

O’Hara, Frank, 3, 32, 131, 163, 187

Ong, Walter, 107n1

Pardo, Don, 171

Pascal, Blaise, 155

Pater, Walter, 178, 185, 276

Paz, Octavio, 300

Pippin, Robert B., 59

Plotinus, 235

Poirier, Richard, 210

Pope, Alexander, 102, 260, 261

Porter, Cole, 12n3

Porter, Katherine Anne, 67

Postal Service, The, 45

Pound, Ezra, 122

Prina, Francesca, 155

Prospero, 160

Proust, Marcel, 173, 263, 264, 264

Queneau, Raymond, 269

Rebecca, 201

R.E.M., 212, 212, 225

Renaldo, Cristiano, 192

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 158, 284

Robinson, Fred C., 109

Roosevelt, Eleanor, xvi, 221–22, 223, 240

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 116

Rosier, James L., 109

Rowlands, Gena, 21–2

Ruskin, John, 36–7, 93, 266

Russell, David, 298

Sabel, Andrew J., 48–9

Salinger, J. D., 93, 94, 231, 232

Sancho Panza, 7–8

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 46, 56, 92, 128–29, 265, 281

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 116

Scholem, Gershom, 81, 82, 106

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 51

Schutz, Alfred, 7–8

Sebastian, 244

Sforza, Ludovico, 305

Shakespeare, William, 6, 86, 92, 124, 143, 160, 183, 214, 247, 270, 302

Shepard, Thomas, Jr., 219

Sidney, Philip, 115

Silas Marner, 61, 249

Simmel, Georg, 12n2, 23n2, 37, 85, 117, 128, 172, 223

Singer, Peter, 189

Singleton, Charles S., 132, 163

Sontag, Susan, 240

Spenser, Edmund, 174, 188, 245, 289

St. Nicholas, 154

Steiner, George, 17n3

Stevens, Wallace, 11, 71, 84, 91, 113, 148, 205, 236

Stevenson, Adlai, 147

Straus, Erwin, 100

Strunk, William, 127

Stuart Little, 73–4

Sullivan, Annie, 258–59

Talking Heads, 161

Tasso, 136

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 276

Tennyson, Alfred (Lord), 213, 216, 279

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 182

Thackeray, William M., 101, 113

Tillman, Lynne, 108

Tiny Tim, 267

Tolkien, J. R. R., 151

Torres, Fernando, 106, 107

Trilling, Lionel, 76, 85, 276

Trollope, Anthony, 5

Uncle Arthur, 121

Updike, John, 70, 102, 171, 215, 240

Vidal, Gore, 221

Virgil, 136, 149, 232

Walton, Izaak, 27–8

Weber, Max, 33n3

Wharton, Edith, 158

White, E. B., 73, 80, 127, 129, 134

Whitman, Walt, xxvii, 46, 236, 249, 284

Wilde, Oscar, 57, 65, 96, 166, 184, 248

Williams, Tennessee, 233

Will Ladislaw, 88

Wills, Gary, 208

Wimsatt, W. K., 155

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 80, 95, 167

Wolff, Kurt, 67

Wolff, Tobias, 190

Woolf, Virginia, xx, 53, 139, 234

Wordsworth, William, 32, 34, 99, 144, 181, 227, 269, 305, 306, 312

Yeats, William Butler, 40, 60, 111, 126, 180, 197, 272, 300

Young, Neil, 73, 288

Zeus, 153