N

Napoleon. See Bonaparte [Buonaparte], Napoleon (emperor of France)

Narration, women and, 45 -46

Narrative (Stedman), 173 n. 32

Natural History (Pliny), 91 , 174 n. 5

Nature: beauty of, 15 , 19 , 20 , 22 ;

community in, 14 ;

gender associations of, 11 -12, 22 , 25 -26;

industrial degradation of, 36 -37;

and the marvellous, 42 -43;

spiritualization of, 101 -2;

sublimity of, 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ;

transformation of beauty by, 21 .

See also Human nature

Newton, Judith, 144 -45

Nina (Wordsworth's character), 133 , 135 , 136 -37, 138 -39, 141

Norton, Emily (Wordsworth's character), 73 , 163 ;

consolation for loss of, 97 , 98 , 106 ;

habitation of spiritualized nature by, 101 -2, 103 ;

maternal influence on, 100 -101;

passive resistance of, 99 ;

self-sacrifice of, 84 , 88 , 93 , 94 -96, 97

Norton, Francis (Wordsworth's character), 94 , 95 , 96 , 98 , 99 , 100

Norton, Richard (Wordsworth's character), 94 -96, 100 -101, 163 , 177 n. 41

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 3d ed., 12 , 167 n. 13

Norton uprising (1569), 93 -96, 99 -102

Novels: and corrupted literary taste, 32 , 33 , 34 -35, 38 , 42 ;

as genre for women writers, 35 ;

response to the natural in, 43

"Nuns Fret Not" (Wordsworth), 67 , 127 , 153

"Nutting" (Wordsworth), 2 , 11 , 140 -41