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Satire in the Victorian novel

Part 4 — INDEX

Reading edition

Absalom and Achitophel, 12 n.

Adam Bede, 152, 252, 277, 309 f.

Addison, Joseph, 48, 89.

Adventures of an Atom, 193.

Adventures of Philip, The, 186.

Alden, R. M., 40.

Alice, 158.

Alton Locke, 131, 191 n., 198, 212 f., 221.

Amazing Marriage, An, 98, 157, 203, 274, 283, 309 n., 313.

Anti-Jacobin, The, 169.

Apology for Smectymnuus, An, 12.

Ariosto, L., 124.

Aristophanes; his comedy, 4, 8;

comments by Cope and White, 19, 48, 78, 204, 304.

Aristophanes’ Apology, 10, 15, 34, 37.

Aristotle, 7, 49.

Arnold, Matthew, 49, 134, 177, 223, 313, 315.

Austen, Jane, 49, 84, 112, 123 n., 129, 134 n., 156, 238, 245, 306.

Author, The, 17.

Autobiography, (Trollope’s), 52 n.

Bacon, Francis, 273.

Barchester Towers, 88, 108 f., 209.

Barclay, Alexander, 21 n., 243.

Barnaby Rudge, 96.

Barry Lyndon, 78, 79, 148.

Beauchamp’s Career, 88, 98 f., 115, 155, 160, 174, 192, 197, 213 f., 224, 301, 302.

Bergson, Henri, 7, 28.

Bertrams, The, 142, 202 f., 208 f., 221.

Bigelow Papers, The, 4, 168.

Birrell, Augustine, 35.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, 46.

Blake, William, 49.

Bleak House, 97, 140, 141, 202.

Boileau, N., 48.

Book of Snobs, The, 206 f., 219 f., 286.

Bourne, Randolph, 128.

Bright, John, 170, 204.

Brontë, Charlotte, 46, 49, 50, 85, 92, 116, 130, 131, 156, 170, 180, 183 f., 191, 210, 218, 231, 260, 270, 271, 279, 285, 301.

Brown, John, 12 f., 36, 123 n.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 176.

Browning, Robert, 10, 15, 34, 37, 49, 76, 98, 172 n., 313.

Bryce, James, 84 n.

Buckingham, 2nd Duke of, 9.

Burns, Robert, 48.

Burton, Robert, 49.

Butler, Samuel, 46, 48, 61, 62, 63 f., 81, 82, 87, 128, 130, 145, 180, 187, 190, 191, 198, 202, 210, 214, 218, 219, 221, 222, 231, 246 n., 269, 270, 273, 278, 280, 287, 290 n., 294, 295, 301, 306, 307, 315.

Byron, Lord, 11 n., 17, 28, 35, 48, 76, 169, 171, 173, 177, 223, 289, 304, 306.

Cannan, Gilbert, 69 n.

Candidate, The, 16.

Carlyle, Thomas, 38 n., 49, 177, 195, 204, 222 n., 228, 236 n., 294, 313, 315.

Catherine, 62 n., 79, 148.

Caxtons, The, 25.

Cervantes, 4, 9 n., 25, 48, 51, 67 n., 70, 175 f., 307.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 286.

Chesterton, G. K., 65 n., 71 n., 195, 246 n.

Churchill, Charles, 6, 16 f., 48.

Claudius, 169.

Cloister and the Hearth, The, 88.

Coffee-House Politician, The, 23.

Coleridge, S. T., 171 f., 173, 177.

Collins, Wilkie, 46.

Colloquies of Society, 173 n.

Colyn Clout, 21 n., 301.

Coming Race, The, 63 n., 68, 72, 81, 133, 193, 227.

Coningsby, 170, 174, 299.

Covent Garden Journal, The, 9 n.

Cowper, William, 17 n., 18, 33, 49, 176.

Cranford, 88.

Croce, Benedetto, 4.

Crochet Castle, 62, 132, 145, 171, 220.

Crotch, W. W., 246 n.

Daniel Deronda, 236 f., 251, 253 n., 281, 292, 310.

Dante, 49.

David Copperfield, 78, 199, 218, 219, 250, 300.

Dawson, W. J., 15.

Defoe, Daniel, 12, 17, 22, 49, 70, 74 n., 89, 128, 183.

De Quincey, Thomas, 14, 33, 49, 128.

Dewey, John, 5.

Dickens, Charles, 46, 48, 53, 92, 95 f., 130, 157, 170, 174, 183, 187, 190, 191, 195, 198, 199, 202, 203, 205, 218, 222 n., 231, 234, 235, 237, 238, 240, 244, 247, 249, 250, 260, 262, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 278, 285, 287, 290, 315.

Diana of the Crossways, 161, 185, 214, 239, 276, 284, 298, 302.

Dinner of Trimalchio, The, 127.

Disraeli, Benjamin, 45, 47, 49, 51, 52, 61, 62, 72 f., 77, 81, 82, 89, 123, 130, 134, 156, 170, 173, 174, 187, 188, 191, 193 f., 198, 202, 210, 216, 225, 231, 244, 271, 279, 299, 315.

Doctor Thorne, 143, 192.

Dombey and Son, 138, 141, 218, 219, 250 f.

Domitian, 67, 169.

Don Juan, 4, 76, 82.

Don Quixote, 82, 127.

Donne, John, 48.

Dowden, Edward, 191.

Dryden, John, 12, 21 f., 48, 123 n., 286.

Duke’s Children, The, 217 n., 240.

Dunbar, William, 48.

Dunciad, The, 82, 169.

Edwin Drood, 232, 270.

Edgeworth, Maria, 84.

Egoist, The, 78, 88, 98, 100, 101, 153, 184 f., 277, 283, 293.

Eliot, George, 46, 47, 49, 92, 116, 130, 152, 157, 170, 177, 180, 183, 191, 205, 216, 235, 236, 247, 251, 253, 256, 257, 261, 273, 274, 277, 278, 280, 281, 285, 287, 291, 295, 309, 315.

Emma, 78.

England and the English, 225.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 17.

English Humorists, The, 50.

English Novel, The (Raleigh’s), 26, 304.

Epistle to William Hogarth, 16.

Epistles to the Literati, 174.

Erasmus, 49.

Erewhon, 63 n., 68, 81, 82, 146 f., 190, 202, 214 f., 227.

Erewhon Revisited, 63 n., 69, 81, 216, 290 n.

Essay on Comedy, An, 14, 27 f., 31 n., 36 n., 160, 293, 312.

Essay on Satire, (Brown’s), 12 f., 36, 123 n. (Dryden’s), 21 n., 22, 123 n.

Ettrick Shepherd, The, 1, 174 n.

Euripides, 48.

Evan Harrington, 161, 162, 190, 255, 284, 307, 308 f.

Every Man in his Humour, 8.

Fair Haven, The, 69.

Farina, 63 n., 79, 81.

Fatal Boots, The, 103.

Felix Holt, 158 n., 170, 192, 198, 236, 251, 291, 304 n.

Ferrier, Susan, 111, 238.

Fielding, Henry, 9, 14, 22 f., 28, 37 n., 48, 51 n., 89, 91, 286, 303.

Framley Parsonage, 119 f., 142, 143 f., 196, 207, 309.

France, Anatole, 49, 124, 246 n.

Freeman, A. M., 66 n.

Fuess, C. M., 28.

Galsworthy, John, 125.

Garnett, Richard, 10, 36, 67 n., 303.

Gascoigne, George, 25, 48.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 45, 49, 84, 92, 130, 157, 183, 191, 195, 205, 216, 247, 270, 279, 285, 287, 306.

Gay, John, 6.

Getting Married, 180.

Gibbon, Edward, 49.

Gifford, William, 14, 17, 48, 171.

Godolphin, 234, 276.

Golden Ass, The, 127.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 48.

Great Expectations, 160.

Great Hoggarty Diamond, The, 62 n., 79.

Gryll Grange, 63 n., 65, 67.

Gulliver’s Travels, 68, 82, 89.

Hall, Joseph, 35, 48, 124, 289.

Hannay, James, 2.

Hard Times, 138, 198, 218.

Hardy, Thomas, 46, 49, 156, 223.

Harris, J. E., 71 f.

Harry Richmond, 98.

Hazlitt, William, 30 n.

Headlam, Cecil, 286.

Headlong Hall, 62 n., 171.

Hebrew Adversary, The, 2.

Hebrew Prophets, The, 48.

Heinsius, Daniel, 40 n.

Herford, C. H., 21.

Henry Esmond, 88.

Historical Register, The, 9.

Homer, 49.

Hood, Thomas, 48.

Hook, Theodore, 170.

Horace, 6, 7, 11, 21, 25, 32 f., 48, 60, 286, 289.

Humor, 5, 7, 59, 83, 86, 280.

Hutten, Ulrich von, 127.

Huxley, Thomas, 177, 315.

Hypatia, 88.

Ibsen, Henrik, 71.

Imaginary Conversations, 27, 34.

Infernal Marriage, The, 62 n., 76 f., 198.

Intriguing Chambermaid, The, 22.

Irony, 50, 121 f., 129, 163 f.

Isaiah, 297.

Ixion, 62 n., 76, 81, 173, 203 f., 223.

James, William, 305.

Jane Eyre, 88, 218.

Jerrold, Douglas, 313.

Job, 2, 48.

Johnson, Lionel, 22, 35, 176.

Johnson, Samuel, 35, 49, 286.

Jonson, Ben, 8, 48, 59, 229.

Jordan, David Starr, 243.

Joseph Andrews, 78.

Journey from this World to the Next, A, 68.

Journey to Parnassus, A, 175 n., 176.

Juvenal, 6, 11, 21, 37, 48, 169, 286, 289.

Kenelm Chillingly, 113 f., 133, 188, 221 n., 274.

Kingsley, Charles, 46, 49, 50 n., 92, 130, 131, 156, 174, 180, 185 f., 187, 191, 195, 210, 212, 215 n., 219, 221, 231, 236 n., 248 n., 249, 252 n., 260, 270, 271, 273, 279, 287, 298 f., 301.

Kingsley, Henry, 46.

Knight, Charles, 53.

Lamb, Charles, 6, 129, 175.

Landor, W. S., 27, 34.

Langland, W., 49.

Last Chronicles of Barset, The, 109, 118, 237, 261.

Last Days of Pompeii, The, 88.

Latter Day Pamphlets, 201 n.

Legend of the Rhine, The, 62 n., 79, 81.

Lenient, C., 163, 181.

Letters to Obscure Men, 127.

Little Dorrit, 97, 199.

Lodge, Thomas, 48.

Looking Backward, 73, 227.

Lord Ormont and his Aminta, 185.

Love’s Labour’s Lost, 78.

Lowell, J. R., 168, 193.

Lucian, 4, 9 n., 27, 125, 126.

Lucretius, 49.

Lydgate, John, 148, 243.

Lytton, E. Bulwer, 45, 49, 61, 62, 68, 72 f., 81, 82, 85, 89, 130, 157, 173, 174 f., 177, 183, 187, 191, 192 f., 198, 205, 219, 222 n., 225, 227, 231, 234, 237, 244, 249, 259, 270, 271, 272, 275, 278, 279, 285, 286, 300, 306.

Macaulay, T. B., 173 n.

MacDonald, George, 46.

MacFlecknoe, 169.

Madame Bovary, 61.

Maeterlinck, M., 16, 315.

Maid Marian, 62 n., 65, 79, 81, 145.

Makers of English Fiction, 15.

Mallock, W. H., 177.

Maltravers, 234 f., 237.

Mansfield Park, 209.

Man and Superman, 4.

Marston, John, 12, 17.

Martin Chuzzlewit, 84, 101, 134, 137.

Mary Barton, 88, 198, 298, 306.

Masefield, John, 128.

Massey, Gerald, 170.

Melincourt, 62 n., 81, 171, 172, 173, 182 f., 192, 205, 226, 247 f., 311.

Meredith, George, 2, 14, 27, 28, 31 n., 46, 47, 48, 50 n., 54, 61, 62, 71 n., 77, 79, 81, 82, 92, 97 f., 117, 130, 152, 157, 170, 180, 183, 184, 187, 190, 192, 195, 213 f., 216, 217 n., 222, 223, 224, 231, 240, 242, 244, 245, 247, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258 f., 262, 269, 270, 273, 274, 275, 276, 278, 280–287, 293, 295, 298, 301, 302, 308, 312, 313, 315.

Middlemarch, 151, 158, 192, 238, 253, 274, 281, 291, 292, 304.

Mill on the Floss, The, 150, 238, 274.

Milnes, R. M., 170.

Milton, John, 12, 49.

Misfortunes of Elphin, The, 62 n., 65, 81, 192, 206.

Modern Utopia, A, 68.

Modest Proposal, A, 147, 313.

Molière, Jean-Baptiste, 28, 73 n., 312.

Moore, Thomas, 48.

More, Sir Thomas, 49.

Morris, Corbyn, 129.

Morris, William, 227.

My Novel, 91, 235, 244 n.

Napoleon, 169.

Nero, 169.

Never too Late to Mend, 199, 300.

New Atlantis, The, 68.

New Machiavelli, The, 287.

New Republic, The, 177.

Newcomes, The, 192, 277, 307 n.

News from Nowhere, 227.

Nicholas Nickleby, 96, 139, 140, 218, 233.

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 125, 315.

Night and Morning, 193, 199, 234.

Nightmare Abbey, 62 n., 64, 171, 172, 223, 272.

Noctes Ambrosianae, 173.

North, Christopher, 1, 174 n., 187 n.

North and South, 198, 205, 248.

Northanger Abbey, 62 n., 78.

Novels by Eminent Hands, 62 n., 79, 174.

Old Curiosity Shop, The, 202.

Old Wives’ Tale, An, 61.

Oliphant, Mrs., 65 n.

Oliver Twist, 95, 95, 137, 139, 270.

One of our Conquerors, 154, 160, 179, 197, 223 f., 284, 302.

Orley Farm, 160, 202.

Our Mutual Friend, 106 f., 202.

Patience and Foresight, 314.

Paul Clifford, 51 n., 96 n., 198.

Peacock, Thomas Love, 45, 48, 51 n., 52, 61, 62, 63 f., 77, 79, 81, 82, 87, 130, 144, 170, 180, 182, 183, 191, 192, 194, 198, 203, 205, 219, 225, 231, 234, 247, 259, 269, 270, 272, 278, 281, 287, 294, 303, 305 f., 311, 315.

Peg Woffington, 88.

Pelham, 107, 132, 173, 177, 187, 188, 192, 194, 221, 223, 276 n.

Pendennis, 94, 150.

Persius, 8, 169.

Peter Pindar, 177 f.

Phineas Finn, 141, 184.

Phineas Redux, 170.

Pickwick, 78, 88, 199, 202, 232.

Piers Plowman, 82.

Plato, 49.

Political Satire in English Poetry, 29.

Pope, Alexander, 12, 33, 35, 48.

Praise of Folly, 127.

Previté-Orton, C. W., 29.

Pride and Prejudice, 134 n.

Punch, 313.

Put Yourself in his Place, 198, 300.

Rabelais, François, 67 n.

Raleigh, Walter, 26, 123 n., 304.

Ralph the Heir, 260 f.

Rape of the Lock, The, 4.

Reade, Charles, 46, 47, 49, 52, 92, 130, 157, 191, 195, 198, 199 f., 205, 216, 224 f., 231, 249, 270, 273, 279, 287.

Rebecca and Rowena, 62 n., 78 n., 79.

Renaissance in Italy, The, 15, 124.

Reynard the Fox, 2, 82.

Rhoda Fleming, 162, 241 f., 256, 274.

Richard Feverel, 163, 216, 257 n., 274.

Richardson, Samuel, 51 n.

Romance of the Rose, The, 82.

Romola, 151, 252, 274, 305.

Rose and the Ring, The, 63 n., 79.

Rostand, Edmond, 78, 256 n.

Saintsbury, George, 60, 129.

Sandra Belloni, 154, 155, 190, 254, 255 f.

Satire, 1, 2, 4, 5 f., 10, 11 f., 19 f., 32 f., 41 f., 48 f., 50 f., 59, 82 f., 86 f., 167 f., 179 f., 229 f., 278, 289, 293 ff.

Satire Menippée, La, 169.

Scenes from Clerical Life, 88.

Scott, Sir Walter, 46, 49.

Scourge of Villainy, The, 12, 17.

Seneca, 169.

Sense and Sensibility, 246, 303.

Seven Satires, 9.

Shakespeare, William, 39, 49, 67 n., 73 n., 286.

Shaving of Shagpat, The, 63 n., 78, 80, 81, 307 n.

Shaw, G. B., 11 n., 65 n., 71, 78, 228, 315.

Shelley, P. B., 49, 51 n., 171, 177.

Sherman, S. P., 287.

Ship of Fools, The, 21 n.

Shirley, 50, 131, 180, 184, 198, 203, 210 f.

Sidgwick, Henry, 18.

Silas Marner, 203, 253, 291.

Sir Harry Hotspur, 209.

Skelton, John, 21 n., 48, 169, 301.

Sketches and Travels, 272.

Small House at Allington, The, 217 n.

Smollett, Tobias, 48, 111, 126, 193.

Socrates, 59.

Southey, Robert, 59, 171, 173, 177.

Spectator, The, No. 451, 176.

Spenser, Edmund, 48.

Spingarn, J. E., 4.

Steele, Richard, 127.

Steele Glas, The, 25.

Stephen, Leslie, 43, 123.

Sterne, Laurence, 49, 89, 111.

Stevenson, R. L., 310 f., 313.

Swift, Jonathan, 4, 9 n., 22 n., 48, 70, 128, 145, 200, 204, 280.

Sybil, 136, 189, 194 n., 195, 198, 210, 306.

Symonds, J. A., 15, 124.

Taine, H. A., 11 n., 23, 27, 272 n., 273, 278.

Tale of Two Cities, A, 88, 244.

Tancred, 135 f., 170, 194, 225.

Task, The, 17 n., 18, 33.

Tatlock, J. S. P., 122 n.

Tennyson, Alfred, 35, 48, 313.

Thackeray, W. M., 46, 48, 50, 51 n., 53, 61, 62, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 92 f., 116, 130, 148, 157, 169, 170, 174 f., 183, 187, 189, 191, 205, 206, 209, 217, 219, 231, 235, 240, 243 n., 244, 245, 247, 249, 251, 256, 258, 270, 272, 273, 278, 285, 286, 289, 306, 309.

Thirlwall, Connop, 121.

Thorndike, A. H., 44 f.

Tom Jones, 9, 25, 37 n., 78.

Tragic Comedians, The, 162.

Traill, H. D., 191.

Transcripts and Studies, 191.

Trollope, Anthony, 46, 48, 51, 52, 66, 84, 89 f., 92, 117, 130, 157, 174, 183, 187, 190, 191, 198, 202 f., 207, 209, 219, 221, 222, 231, 235, 237, 240, 243 n., 244, 245, 256, 260, 263, 270, 271, 273, 276, 278, 279, 285, 287, 302, 307, 309.

Trueborn Englishman, The, 12 n., 17, 22.

Twain, Mark, 48, 76.

Twelfth Night, 78.

Two Years Ago, 248 n., 252 n.

Universal Passion, The, 18, 33, 80 n.

Unsocial Socialist, An, 11 n.

Up to Midnight, 246 n.

Utopia, 68.

Van Doren, Carl, 67 n.

Van Laun, H., 169.

Vanity Fair, 78, 88, 92 f., 101, 149, 175, 183, 286.

Victoria, Queen, 67.

Victorian, 42, 43, 44, 45, 61, 84, 112, 117, 129, 170, 180, 226, 230, 231, 239, 259, 272, 274, 277, 286, 287, 296, 306, 310, 311, 315, 316.

Victorians, The, 61, 158, 179, 180, 191, 203, 217, 227, 228, 270, 274, 275, 287, 288, 295, 304, 306, 313, 314, 315.

Villette, 211 f., 218, 260.

Virgil, 49.

Virginians, The, 311.

Vittoria, 98, 155, 282 n.

Voltaire, 38 n., 48, 301.

Voyage of Captain Popanilla, The, 62 n., 74, 81, 189, 194 n., 202.

Walker, Hugh, 67 n., 78 n.

Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 191 n.

Warden, The, 207, 209 f., 222.

Way of All Flesh, The, 65 n., 68, 147 f., 215 n., 218.

Way We Live Now, The, 240 f., 263 f.

Wells, H. G., 73, 315.

Wendell, Barrett, 29 n.

What Will He Do with It?, 91 f., 112 f., 272.

Wit, 59, 83, 86, 110 f.

Wives and Daughters, 112, 131, 249.

Wolsey, Cardinal, 169.

Wordsworth, William, 49, 171.

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 48.

Wyclif, John, 49.

Yeast, 132, 186, 213 n., 221, 236 n., 260, 298 f., 299.

Yellowplush Papers, The, 62 n., 79, 103, 174.

Yonge, Charlotte, 46.

Young Duke, The, 134 f., 189, 198 n.

Young, Edward, 9, 18, 33, 49, 80 n.

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Notes in this chapter

Note 8 · Fielding: Tom Jones: Dedication to George Lyttleton, VI, 5. He also says, in The Covent Garden Journal: “Few men, I believe, do more admire Note 11 · “Wolves use their teeth against you, bulls their horn; Why, but that each is to the manner born?” Satires, I, 1. Conington, 46. Some modeNote 14 · “The end of Satire is reformation.” Preface to The Trueborn Englishman.Note 15 · “The true end of Satire is the amendment of vices by correction.” Preface to Absalom and Achitophel.Note 26 · The Task: The Time-Piece. His object is to point out the superiority of the preacher, who steps in “* * * when the sat’rist has at last StrNote 30 · Skelton: Colyn Clout. “Of no good bysshop speke I, Nor good priest I escrye, Good frere, nor good chanon, Good nonne, nor good canon, GoNote 31 · Barclay: Preface to Ship of Fools. “This present Boke myght have been callyd nat inconvenyently the Satyr (that is to say) the reprehencion Note 32 · Essay on Satire.Note 34 · Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift. He adds, as to motive: “Yet malice never was his aim; He lash’d the vice, but spared the name; ***** HiNote 50 · Political Satire in English Poetry, 240. In his Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature, Wendell contributes another link toNote 51 · Hazlett, in his essay on Wit and Humour, remarks that “it has appeared that the detection and exposure of difference, particularly where thiNote 52 · Meredith characterises the chase of Folly by the Comic Spirit as conducted “with the springing delight of hawk over heron, hound after fox.”Note 64 · Preface to Headlong Hall, in the Aldine edition of Peacock, 40. In his Essay on Comedy, Meredith goes beyond mere absence of hate: “You may Note 67 · Browning: Aris. Apol. Cf. Fielding, Tom Jones, VI, 357, for a similar distinction.Note 68 · Cf. Brown’s Essay on Satire for scorn of Shaftesbury’s idea that ridicule is the test of truth; refuted ironically in the lines,— “Deride ouNote 69 · Heinsius, in his Dissertations on Horace. A conception drawn perhaps from the Aristotelian “purging of our passions” through tragedy.Note 5 · English Humorists; Swift, 2. Cf. Kingsley: “One cannot laugh heartily at a man if one has not a lurking love for him.” Two Years Ago, 143. ANote 7 · Preface to Oliver Twist, xv. That Dickens was mistaken as to the real point of Don Quixote, does not impair his argument. Thackeray had the Note 8 · “The vices that call for the scourge of satire, are those which pervade the whole frame of society, and which, under some specious pretense Note 9 · “And as I had ventured to take the whip of the satirist in my hand, I went beyond the iniquities of the great speculator who robs everybody,Note 3 · 1816 Headlong Hall 1817 Melincourt (also Northanger Abbey) 1818 Nightmare Abbey 1822 Maid Marian 1828 The Voyage of Captain Popanilla 1829 Note 4 · Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon, 65.Note 6 · With the exception of The Way of All Flesh; another instance of Butler’s wider range.Note 7 · The word novel must of course be stretched if it is to include this set of fantastic fiction. But that is easily done by accepting ChestertoNote 8 · “The desideratum of a Peacockian character is that he shall be able to talk.” Freeman: Life and Novels of Peacock, 233.Note 10 · “He has knowledge, wit, humour, technical skill, cleverness in abundance, some genius, he is a keen observer, a caustic critic. What he lackNote 12 · The phrases are Van Doren’s and Walker’s respectively. Cf. Garnett: “It cannot be said that the satire of Gryll Grange is very Archilochian.Note 15 · Cannan says of Erewhon, “Few good books have so many faults, and yet it remains the one enduring satire of the nineteenth century.” Samuel BNote 16 · One’s astonishment that it was Meredith who had the honor of rejecting the manuscript of Erewhon, submitted to Chapman and Hall, is exceededNote 17 · Harris: Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon, 13. Cf. Chesterton’s whimsical remark that “the best definition of the Victorian Age is that FrancNote 20 · “And where a society attains to a moral standard in which there are no crimes and no sorrows from which tragedy can extract its aliment of pNote 21 · After the manner of Defoe’s Turkish Merchant: the Conduct of Christians Made the Sport of Infidels, and others of this type.Note 30 · Walker’s dictum (Victorian Literature, 700) that “Good burlesque is impossible except through sound criticism,” is an instance of the dangerNote 31 · “Heroes and gods make other poems fine; Plain Satire calls for sense in every line.” Young: Universal Passion.Note 1 · Perhaps pardon should be asked on behalf of the irresponsible Circumstance which allowed so large a preponderance in this matter to the sex Note 15 · Nicholas Nickleby, I, 286. This thrust is aimed especially at Paul Clifford.Note 1 · On dramatic irony, see American Philological Association Transactions, 1917, for summary of an interesting unpublished paper read before theNote 2 · As advised by John Brown in his Essay on Satire: “The Muse’s charms resistless then assail, When wrapt in irony’s transparent veil; ***** Note 3 · Stephen: Hours in a Library, Second Series. 347. Another critic of another novelist makes the point by a vivid illustration: “A rabbit fondlNote 20 · As an introduction this reminds one of the ironic terseness of Jane Austen: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in poNote 72 · Sandra Belloni, 68. This is followed by a fling at the “alliance with Destiny”, which reminds us of our recent American slogan of “Manifest Note 76 · Middlemarch, I, 142. She also comments as follows on the undeniably just statement of Jermyn to Mrs. Transome that Harold should be told theNote 7 · Nightmare Abbey, 23. That this was a typical experience is well known. Cf. Browning’s Lost Leader.Note 9 · Melincourt, 80. In his Review of Southey’s Colloquies of Society, Macaulay points out the Laureate’s two unique faculties,—“of believing witNote 10 · Quoted in his biography, by the Earl of Lytton, I, 347. The Ettrick Shepherd tries to rally Tickler out of his glumness by the argument,—“EvNote 13 · Journey to Parnassus, Chapter IV. Gibson’s translation.Note 15 · Pelham, 291.Note 24 · Concluding his contrast between Alton Locke and Disraeli’s Trilogy, in Transcripts and Studies, 193. In this connection another contrast, beNote 29 · Tancred, 73. Cf. the king’s speech to Popanilla; also Gerard’s observation,—“‘I have no doubt you will get through the business very well, MNote 36 · The Infernal Marriage, 353. In The Young Duke there is an allusion to “the two thousand Brahmins who constitute the World,” and to “the ten Note 44 · Ibid., 229. The antipodal point of view in Latter Day Pamphlets illustrates vividly the availability of satire for either side of a cause.Note 66 · Alton Locke, 229–30. Cf. 205ff. for an equally forceful presentation of the other side through the eloquent rebuke to illogical complaints, Note 70 · Ibid., 157. Cf. Kingsley’s statement that the working men distrust the clergy. In The Way of All Flesh, Butler observes, “A clergyman, againNote 72 · In The Duke’s Children. Cf. The Small House at Allington, 498, for remarks on inadequate parents. Perhaps Meredith’s picture in lighter toneNote 81 · Pelham, 13. Cf. his Kenelm Chillingly for a discussion between Uncle John, the idealistic vicar and Mivers, the utilitarian man of the worldNote 82 · The Warden, 151. This is really more unjust to Dickens than the flings at Dr. Pessimist Anti-cant are to Carlyle. It is interesting to note Note 6 · Felix Holt, I, 152. Kingsley depicts the same thing in higher life, and takes it more seriously: Lancelot is contemptuous over the vicar,—“HNote 20 · Dr. David Starr Jordan. As to Thackeray, the analysis made by Trollope is very much to the point,—that he mustered all his dislikes and animNote 21 · This character makes a shrewd comment, which indicts English society for being a promoter of snobbishness: “They call me a parvenu, and borrNote 23 · This conception of sentimentality has many illustrations, expressed and implied. Chesterton describes the sentimentalist as “the man who wanNote 25 · North and South, 9. Cf. Kingsley’s crude and literal handling of the same theme. Anna Maria Heale was always talking of her nerves, “though Note 32 · Romola, II, 469. Cf. Two Years Ago, for a sample of Kingsley’s personally applied, Thackerayan sarcasm on a similar subject,—we young men, “Note 33 · Silas Marner, 84. Cf. Catherine Arrowpoint’s interpretation of parental piety: “People can easily take the sacred word duty as a name for whNote 41 · Cf. the whole motif of Rostand’s Chanticler.Note 42 · Sentimentalism is further described as “a happy pastime and an important science to the timid, the idle, and the heartless; but a damning onNote 3 · Sketches and Travels: in London, 268. Cf. Taine’s comment that Thackeray “does as a novelist what Hobbes does as a philosopher. Almost everyNote 6 · Godolphin, 106–7. Cf. Pelham, 106 ff. for a long discussion of the novel.Note 16 · A description of this youth concludes with a most significant epigram: “He was one of those who delight to dally with gentleness and faith, Note 3 · The motto of Erewhon Revisited is from the Iliad: “Him do I hate, even as I hate hell fire, who says one thing, and hides another in his heaNote 29 · Middlemarch, I, 174. Cf. the taunt of the practical young Radical to Esther Lyon, on her choice of literature: “* * * gentlemen like your RéNote 32 · “God forgive you,” he exclaims to Carrasco, “the injury you have done the whole world, in endeavouring to restore to his senses the most divNote 33 · Evan Harrington, 457. Cf. a similar idea in The Shaving of Shagpat. The narrator of The Newcomes speaks in the Preface of the “pert little sNote 36 · Framley Parsonage, 306.Note 37 · Adam Bede, II, 37. Cf. Lord Fleetwood’s complaint to Carinthia that she has hit him hard and justly, followed by his acknowledgment,—“Not yo
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