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Index
Allestree, Richard, 6
Brown, Murray L., 123–4
Allen, Walter, 119
Burke, Kenneth, 4
amatory fiction, 96–99, 128, 212n
Burney, Fanny [Frances]
Amphialus
Cecilia, 158
Sidney’s, 49–50
Evelina, 161, 171
Weamys’s, 83–5
Butler, Judith, 2
Amphilanthus, 58, 61, 62–6, 67, 69, 71
Antissia, see also Mary Fitton, 63, 71
Catty, Jocelyn, 154
Austen, Jane, 159
Cavendish, Margaret [Duchess of
Mansfield Park, 231n
Newcastle], 99–100, 129
Northanger Abbey, 168
‘Assaulted and Pursued Chastity’,
Pride and Prejudice, 5, 9, 15, 158–74,
80, 99–103
183, 186
Cecil, Anne, 30
Sense and Sensibility, 160, 226n
characterization, 99, 116
and motivation, 126–8, 134–5,
Ballaster, Ros, 97, 103
171–2
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 119, 142–3
chastity, 4, 16, 26, 27, 43, 55, 67, 80,
Barchas, Janine, 126–7
154
Barker, Jane, 106
Chrétien de Troyes
Love Intrigues, 97–8, 106–11, 212–13n
Ywain, 99
Barclay, John
Claius and Strephon, 52, 78, 80–3
Argenis, 90–2
class, 16, 41, 71, 73, 98, 133, 136,
Basilius, 29, 31, 32–5, 78, 81
137–9, 159, 162–4, 184–5, 222n
Beecher, Donald, 27, 28
Clifford, (Lady) Anne, 67
Beer, Gillian, 119, 122
comedy, 32, 34, 37, 44, 57
Behn, Aphra, 103
conduct literature, 2, 6, 9, 76–8, 111,
Fair Jilt, 105
142–3, 181, 192, 195n, 196n,
History of the Nun, 103–6
197n
Rover, 225n
courtship, 1, 18, 31, 151, 197n
Bellings, Richard
Craft, William, 38
Arcadia, 78
Crawford, Patricia, 1
Best, Michael R., 3
Cullen, Patrick Cullen, 82
Blount, Charles, 67–8
Boumelha, Penny, 177, 179–80
Davies, Andrew, 166
Bradshaigh, (Lady) Dorothy, 125–7
Davis, Lennard, 13
Brathwait, Richard
Denny, Lord, 53
English Gentlewoman, 6, 8, 29, 75,
de Scudery, Madeleine, 12–13
76, 77
De Vere, Edward, 30
Panthalia, 92–4
desire
Brooks, Peter, 17
female, 1, 2, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 30,
Brontë, Charlotte, 1, 2, 180, 181
31, 37, 38, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55,
Jane Eyre, 1, 2, 15, 17, 24, 54,
56, 59, 62, 64, 65, 74, 85, 98,
175–91
112–14, 134, 148, 172, 176–9
243
244 Index
desire – continued
Gisborne, Thomas
male, 39, 43, 53, 56
Inquiry in to the Duties of the Female
sexual, 18, 55–8, 59, 73
Sex, 145–6, 214n
Devereux, Penelope see Rich, Penelope
Goldberg, Jonathan, 2
Doody, Margaret, 14
Gooding, Richard, 138–9
Donne, John, 18
Gordon, Scott Paul, 151
Dudley, Mary (Philip Sidney’s
Greenblatt, Stephen, 56
mother)
Greene Robert
see Sidney, Mary
Pandosto, 138, 221n
Duncan, Ian, 12, 15
Gregory, John, 6, 8, 169
Duncan-Jones, Katherine, 25, 29, 30
A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters,
111, 172–3
Eaves, T. C. Duncan, and Ben D. Kimpel,
Greville, Fulke, 29
118, 142
Grey, Jemima, Marchioness of, 145
Eliot, George
&nbs
p; Gwilliam, Tassie, 131
Middlemarch, 191, 192
Gynecia, 31–7, 39, 49, 50, 51, 61, 78
Elizabeth I, 16, 25, 28, 29, 30, 34, 37,
44, 48, 49, 53, 84
Hackett, Helen, 35, 38
Evans, Maurice, 160
Halifax, Marquis of [George Savile]
Advice to a Daughter, 6, 100
female agency, 2, 3, 10, 16, 47, 98,
Halkett, (Lady) Anne, 69–70
117, 142, 164–5, 185, 219n, 231n
Handler, Richard and Daniel Segal,
female dress, 127–131
173
female sexuality, 55, 153–4, 166, 181,
Haywood, Eliza, 111–12, 215n
212n, 213n, 225n
Love in Excess, 111–16
female subjectivity, 2, 4, 97–8, 105,
Fantomina, 128, 220n
116, 117, 124, 220n
Heathcote, Mrs, 145
female virtue, see also modesty, 1, 7,
Helen
16, 24, 31, 76, 92, 98, 102,
Sidney’s, 30, 37, 47–51
113–14, 116, 125, 127, 134, 137,
Weamys’s, 78, 84–5
138, 147, 150, 155–7, 160–1, 166,
Helgerson, Richard, 28, 30
171, 212n
Herbert, Mary see Countess of
femininity
Pembroke
acquired, 2–4, 6–8, 76–8, 210n
Herbert, William (Wroth’s cousin and
Fielding, Henry, 9, 13
lover), 54, 63, 67
Tom Jones, 171, 212n
Hickey, Emily Henrietta, 190, 231n
Shamela, 6
Howard, Thomas, 70
fishing metaphor, 18–24, 86–7, 123–4,
Hull, Suzanne W., 3, 61
127
humanism, 17, 32, 48
fishing maid, 20–1, 60–1
Hunter, J. Paul, 13
Fitton, Mary, 63
Hutson, Lorna, 16, 17
Fletcher, Anthony, 5–6, 9
Fordyce, James, 6
ideal, feminine see female virtue
Forsandarus, 69, 71
ideologies of womanhood, 4–7
Isles, Duncan, 153
Gamage, Barbara see Sidney, Barbara
gender, 26, 31, 37, 39, 53, 54
Kaplan, Deborah, 166, 170
as performance, 2–3, 16
Kay, Dennis, 3, 25, 29
genre, 14
King, Kathyrn, 107
Index 245
Lamb, Mary Ellen, 33, 38
narrative, 26, 27, 28, 31, 34, 35, 36,
Laquer, Thomas, 4
45, 47, 74, 75, 94
LeGates, Mary, 6
conventions, 118, 133–4, 170
Lennox, Charlotte
development, 67
Female Quioxte, 23–4, 141–2, 151–7,
dilemmas, 68, 70
170, 172
dynamics, 14, 17, 72, 99, 147, 174,
Lindenbaum, Peter, 198n
192, 229n
literary hierarchies, 32, 34
form, 161–2, 218n
love, 15, 21, 40, 43, 35, 38, 53, 58, 59,
plot, 15, 17, 21, 38, 97, 148, 164–5
63, 93
strategies, 24, 69, 75–95
at first sight, 112, 148–51, 164,
Newcastle, Duchess of, see Cavendish,
170–1, 173, 225n
Margaret
disinterested, 101, 132, 135, 162–3,
Newton, Judith Lowder, 161, 171
170–4, 215n
novel, 14, 15, 17, 18, 146
romantic, 48, 51, 89, 132, 142,
dangers of, 141, 144–7, 222–3n
181
reading practices, 141–7, 154–5,
unconscious, 100, 104, 132–6,
223n, 224n
164–6, 169, 191, 220n
realism and, 141, 142, 189
loving first, 111–16, 196n
Nussey, Ellen, 180
Luckyj, Christine, 3, 61–2
Oakleaf, David, 96
male virtue, 38–9, 159–60, 164
Oedipus and the Devil, 9
Mandeville, 8
Osborne, Dorothy, 102–3
Manley, Delarivière, 97
Markham, Gervase
Painter, William, 26, 27, 29
English Arcadia, 3, 19–20, 29, 77, 78,
Palace of Pleasure, 26
85–90, 105, 142, 164
Pamela
English Housewife, 77, 89
Richardson’s, 9, 15, 22–3, 46, 62,
marriage, 20, 26, 30, 41, 58, 59,
117–40, 141
60, 61, 62, 66, 68, 78–9, 83,
Sidney’s, 2, 28, 38, 43–7
141–51
Pamphilia, 53, 58, 61–70, 71, 74, 91
ceremonies, 64, 65
Parker, Patricia, 11
companionate, 51
Parthenia, 30, 48–9
Marxism, 2
Pembroke, Countess of (Mary Sidney,
McKeon, Michael, 13, 145
née Herbert), 17, 29, 52, 72–3
Melissea, 58, 71–4
Philoclea, 10, 28, 36, 37–43, 84
Melidora, 19–20
Philisides, 29, 30, 53, 73, 82
Mendelson, Sara, 1
physiology
Milech, Barbara, 175
models of, 4–7
Milton, John, 120
plot, see narrative
Montagu, Elizabeth, 146–7
Polhemus, Robert, 172
Mullan, John, 118
Pope, Alexander, 120
modesty, 7, 8, 9, 60, 67, 68, 76,
Potter, Lois, 33
105–6
Protestantism, 15, 17, 25, 33, 34, 48,
Modleski, Tanya, 192
62
Montrose, Louis, 2
psychomachia, 33
moral integrity, 67, 68, 70
Pygmalion, 42
Morgan, Charlotte, 11, 27, 28
Pyrocles, see also Zelmane, 28, 31, 32,
Musidorus, 28, 31, 43–7, 79
33, 36, 37, 42, 43, 50, 79, 81, 84
246 Index
Quilligan, Maureen, 30, 62, 68
Sidney, Philip, 1, 10, 16, 20, 29–31,
40, 53, 67, 73, 147
Reeve, Clara
as Philisides, 73, 82, 210n
Progress of Romance, 152
Apology for Poetry, 35
Champion of Virtue, 152–3
definitions of comedy and
Rich, (Lady) Penelope, 30, 67–8
tragedy in, 32–7, 52
Richardson, Samuel, 5, 13, 15, 16, 17,
‘Astrophil and Stella’, 30, 67
26, 62, 117, 125–7, 216n, 218n
Arcadia, 1, 3, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17,
Clarissa, 5, 17, 125–7, 153–4, 226n
22, 24, 25–51, 81, 94, 198n
Familiar Letters, 117
New Arcadia, 18, 31–51, 47–5, 99,
Pamela, 15, 17, 22, 26, 100, 101,
100, 118–24, 125, 127, 129–31,
103, 104, 117–40, 155–6, 183,
132–3, 136, 158–63, 173–4,
184, 187
190, 216n, 217n
Pamela 2, 120–2, 141–51, 156–7,
politics of, 25, 29, 32–3, 52–4, 73
164
Old Arcadia, 35–6
Riche, Barnabe, 26, 27, 28, 29
Sidney, Robert (Philip’s brother), 52
Richetti, John, 97, 98
silence, 3, 9, 55, 61
Ringler, W. A., 68
Pamphilia’s vow of, 61–9
Rizzo, Betty, 124
Sinfield, Alan, 16
Roberts, Josephine A., 53
Smith, A. J., 18
Roberts, Katherine J., 32, 75
Spenser, Edmund, 30
Rodomondro, 65–6, 68, 69, 70
Steele, Richard
r
oman à clef, 25, 90
Tender Husband, 120
romance, 3, 11, 15, 17, 18, 25, 31, 54,
Stewart, Philip, 14
60, 72, 86, 90, 101–2, 96, 141,
Stone, Lawrence, 67
143–4, 151–3, 175–6, 189, 192 see
Strephon, see under Clauis
also love
chivalric, 16
Tague, Ingrid, 10
dangers of, 141, 144–6, 152–4
Thirsis, 86–90
definitions of, 11–5
Todd, Janet, 170
French heroic, 12–3, 152
tragedy, 32, 34, 37
Greek, 27
heroines, 11, 15, 24, 42, 68, 92,
Urania
102, 132, 140, 154, 182
Sidney’s, 32, 52, 79
romantic conventions, 99, 109–10,
Weamys’s, 79–83
135, 136, 138, 139, 154–5, 155–7,
Wroth’s, 52, 79
191–2, 219n
Roper, Lyndal, 9
Vickery, Amanda, 110
Rose, Mary Beth, 16
Viederman, Milton, 175
Ross, Deborah, 11
Waldron, Mary, 162, 169, 181
Schellenberg, Betty, 147–8
Walsingham, Francis (Philip Sidney’s
Schleiner, Winifred, 139
wife), 30
Shakespeare, William, 54, 63
Warner, William B., 127–8, 131, 135,
Shoemaker, Robert, 4–5
138
Sidney, Barbara (née Gamage), 52
Weamys, Anna
Sidney, Mary (Philip’s mother), 30, 48
Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney’s
Sidney, Mary (Philip’s sister) see
Arcadia, 78–85, 135
Pembroke, Countess of
Westcomb, Sophia, 117
Index 247
Whigham, Frank, 4, 75, 76
and nature/custom debate, 102–3,
Wickerson, John, 30
110–11, 116–27, 185
willfulness, 39, 48, 89
designing, 16, 17, 18, 24, 31, 40,
will, 10, 11, 21, 38, 45, 48, 49, 137,
49, 51, 75, 86, 93, 104–5,
142, 156–7, 173, 176–80, 187–8,
112–14, 119, 123–5, 134–5,
189–91, 192
167, 169–70, 183, 218n
independent, 37–51, 75
readers, 17
infected, 33
representation of, 1, 3, 6, 14, 161,
man’s weak, 56–8
169
non-compliant, 3
secret intentions of, 97–8, 107–9,
Williams, Raymond, 27, 140
116, 124
wit, 48
stratagems of, 124–7, 164
erected, 33
writers, 3, 51, 73, 74, see also
women and, 25–51
individual authors
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 181
Wroth, Mary
Vindication of the Rights of
Urania, 16, 20–2, 31, 51, 52–74,
Women, 128, 181
139, 187, 192
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