Consciousness and the Novel

by David Lodge

  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

  Dickinson, Emily, 27

  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