Index

A

Abel, Elizabeth, 99 -100, 101

"L'abjet d'amour " (Kristeva), 157 -58n. 19

Addison, Joseph, 4 -5;

"Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination," 4

Adorno, Theodore W., 30 ;

Aesthetic Theory , 179 -80n. 28

Aesthetics, 2 -3, 11 , 154 n. 8;

definition of aesthetic idea, 108 -9, 116 ;

relationship to ethics and politics, 40 -41;

relationship to risk and art, 66 -67;

of Sethe's back scars in Beloved , 129 -32, 146 ;

sexual differences in, 45 , 47 -50, 72 -73;

and speculation, 40 -45;

women writers and theories on, 76 -79.

See also specific theorist

Aesthetic Theory (Adorno), 179 -80n. 28

African-American literature, 148 ;

attachment and detachment in, 119 -22;

and "ghost in the machine," 105 -6, 116 ;

position within American Literature, 106 -8.

See also Africanist presence

Africanist presence, 106 -8, 115 , 177 nn. 2, 5.

See also African-American literature

Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (de Lauretis), 149 n. 2;

"Desire in Narrative," 157 n. 16

Allen, Priscilla: "Old Critics and New: The Treatment of Chopin's The Awakening, " 159 n. 28

All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: "Teaching Black-Eyed Susans: An Approach to the Study of Black Women Writers" (Washington), 175 n. 50

Althusser, Louis: For Marx,150 n. 6

American Literature: "The Awakening: A Political Romance" (Thornton), 159 n. 28

Ammons, Elizabeth: Edith Wharton's Argument with America,165 -66n. 34

Angier, Carole, 100

Anthropology (Kant), 72

Anxiety of influence, 17 -18, 155 n. 11

Anxiety of Influence, The (Bloom), 155 n. 11

Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, The (Foucault), 149 n. 1

Armstrong, Nancy: Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel,171 n. 13

Art, 152 n. 20, 179 -80n. 28;

and beauty as commodity, 56 -59, 63 , 66 -67;

relationship to ethics and aesthetics, 66 -67;

relationship to speculation and chance, 59 -67.

See also Beautiful, the

Art of the Novel, The: "Roderick Hudson" (James), 169 n. 1

Astell, Jane, 173 n. 20

Attachment, 124 ;

and detachment in African-American literature, 119 -22;

as excluded in Kantian sublime, 108 -9, 112 -16, 119 , 135 ;

in Isis myth, 108 -19;

in mourning, 140 -44;

relationship to emotion, 113 -16

Atwood, Margaret, 102

Aubin, Penelope, 76

Auditor, identification between orator and, 4 -5, 7 , 17 , 27 -28

Austen, Jane, 76 ;

Emma, 171 n. 13

Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism, The: "Old Critics and New: The Treatment of Chopin's The Awakening " (Allen), 159 n. 28

Awakening, The (Chopin), 15 -16, 151 -52n. 17;

juxtaposition of opposites in, 6 , 38 -39;

relationship between auditor and orator in, 27 -28, 29 ;

sea metaphor in, 12 , 26 -35.

See also Chopin, Kate

B

Backward Glance, A (Wharton), 64

Baille, John: Essay on the Sublime,170 n. 11

Ball State University Forum: "The Awakening: Kate Chopin's 'Endlessly Rocking' Cycle" (House), 159 n. 28

Bataille, Georges: "The Notion of Expenditure," 168 -69n. 47

Bauer, Dale, 31 , 33

Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (Homans), 174 n. 34, 174 -75n. 36

Beautiful, the, 161 -62n. 7;

Burkian view of, 47 -50, 57 -58, 61 , 72 , 162 n. 10, 163 n. 12;

as commodity, 56 -59, 63 ;

as distinct from sublime, 3 , 42 , 149 -50n. 3;

as feminine, 49 , 72 -73;

Kantian view of, 70 , 72 -73, 85 , 113 , 116 ;

sexual differences between sublime and, 47 -50.

See also Art

Bell, Charles: Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave,120

Beloved (Morrison), 6 , 177 n. 4;

attachment in, 116 , 124 ;

bridge metaphor in, 144 -48;

ghost metaphor in, 126 , 132 , 136 -37;

historical gap in collective witness in, 124 -25, 127 -29;

house metaphor in, 119 , 123 -24;

and Kantian sublime, 106 , 113 , 126 , 129 , 136 -37, 139 ;

marks and names in, 129 -32, 134 -35, 146 ;

missing three in, 119 , 146 ;

mourning in, 133 -44, 147 ;

Sethe's back scars as aesthetic in, 129 -32, 146 ;

and Their Eyes Were Watching God,122 , 180 n. 29;

the unspeakable in, 122 -32, 139 , 140 , 142 , 145 -47;

veil metaphor in, 144 -45.

See also Morrison, Toni

Benjamin, Walter, 132 -33;

"The Storyteller," 127 , 128

Bergner, Gwen, 147 , 184 n. 65

Berryman, John: Recovery/Delusions, etc.,152 n. 17

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Sedgwick), 169 n. 2, 170 n. 10

Bible, 73 , 135 , 147 -48.

See also Religion

Black, F. G., 76

Black Women Writers: "Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation" (Morrison), 179 -80n. 28

Black World: "Behind the Making of The Black Book " (Morrison), 130

Blakemore, Steven, 45 ;

Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event, 162 n. 10, 164 n. 20, 165 n. 31

Blockage, 3 , 30 ;

excess as blocking agent, 25 -26;

sea as blocking agent, 22 -23;

woman as blocking agent, 22 -26

Bloom, Harold, 17 -18;

The Anxiety of Influence,155 n. 11

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Butler), 177 n. 68

Boulton, James T., 160 nn. 3, 4

Boundary: "Good Morning, Midnight; Good Night, Modernism" (Gardiner), 175 n. 47;

"Sublime Politics" (Pease), 161 -62n. 7

Bowers, Susan, 137 -38, 146

Boyd, Elizabeth: The Female Page,77

Brown, Marshall: "A Philosophical View of the Gothic Novel," 173 n. 28

Bruns, Gerald C., 30

Budge, E. A. Wallis: Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection,110 , 111 , 178 n. 14

Burke, Edmund, 28 , 66 -67, 155 n. 10;

and abstract speculation, 40 -45, 51 -52;

aesthetic categories by, 45 -50, 162 n. 10, 163 n. 12;

"An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs," 164 nn. 25, 27 , 167 n. 42;

and beauty, 47 -50, 57 -58, 61 , 72 , 162 n. 10, 163 n. 12;

"exact theory" passion of, 42 -45;

and historical changes in sublime theory, 43 , 160 n. 3, 161 -62n. 7;

Letters on a Regicide Peace,47 , 50 -51;

A Letter to a Noble Lord,165 n. 32;

"Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America," 51 -52;

on money, 59 , 164 n. 24, 166 -67n. 38 ;

political practices of, 10 -11, 50 -55, 161 n. 6;

on politics, 45 -50, 162 n. 10, 163 n. 12;

Reflections on the Revolution in France,45 -47, 50 -55, 161 -62n. 7;

Remarks on the Policy of the Allies,50 ;

and sexual differences, 47 -55, 57 ;

"Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill," 163 n. 12;

terror as ruling principle of sublime, 46 -47, 150 n. 5, 158 n. 26, 177 n. 4;

transformation of opposites principle, 44 -45, 160 -61n. 5;

Vindication of Natural Society,51 ;

The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke,51 -52, 163 n. 12, 164 nn. 25, 27, 167 n. 42.

See also Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, The

Burke, Kenneth, 155 n. 11

Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event (Blakemore), 162 n. 10, 164 n. 20, 165 n. 31

Burney, Fanny, 76 , 172 n. 14;

Evelina, 78

Butler, Judith, 10 ;

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex,"177 n. 68;

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity,177 n. 68;

"Imitation and Gender Insubordination," 177 n. 68;

Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories,177 n. 68

C

Cambyses (King of Persia), 132 -33

Capital (Marx), 166 -67n. 38

Capitalist economy: and beauty as commodity, 56 -59, 63 ;

and human happiness, 90 -93, 176 n. 64;

risk and spending in, 63 -67, 168 n. 45;

and role of money in Good Morning, Midnight,90 -92.

See also Speculation

Carroll, David: Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida,160 n. 34

Caruth, Cathy, 124 -25

Centrum: "Originality and Allusion in the Writings of Edmund Burke" (Hughes), 162 -63n. 11

Chance, 49 , 168 n. 45;

definition of, 65 -66;

relationship to speculation and art, 40 , 59 -67;

and "terrible god of chance," 40 , 53.

See also Risk

Charlotte Temple (Rowson), 77

Child, Lydia Maria, 120 -21

Chopin, Kate, 6 , 19 ;

on chaos and excess, 15 -16;

sea as metaphor, 12 , 26 -35.

See also Awakening, The

Cixous, Hélène, 5 -6

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 8 -9, 151 -52n. 17

Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, The: "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature," 48

Colossal, 80 -82;

definition of, 80 -81

Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text: "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text" (Henderson), 182 -83n. 52

Complete Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, The: "Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill," 163 n. 12

Conn, Peter: The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America,167 n. 41

Contemporary Literature: "Divided Selves and the Market Society: Politics and Psychology in The House of Mirth " (Shulman), 165 -66n. 34;

"'Rememory': Primal Scenes and Construction in Toni Morrison's Novels" (Rushdy), 183 n. 60

Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation, The: "Politics of Historical Interpretation: Discipline and De-Sublimation" (White), 161 -62n. 7

Critical Inquiry: "The Evidence of Experience" (Scott), 149 n. 2;

"Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" (Spivak), 173 n. 28

Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory (Eagleton), 150 n. 6

Critique of Judgment (Kant), 3 -4, 87 , 117 , 170 n. 11;

aesthetic idea in, 108 -9, 116 ;

and African-American literature, 107 -8;

"The Analytic of the Beautiful," 107 -8, 112 -13, 114 , 178 n. 15;

"The Analytic of the Sublime," 69 -70, 79 , 108 -9, 112 -14;

Beloved as commentary on sublime in, 106 -8;

exclusion of attachment in, 108 -9, 112 -16, 119 , 135 ;

misogyny in, 69 ;

"On Beauty as the Symbol of Morality," 85 .

See also Kant, Immanuel

Critique of Practical Reason (Kant), 112

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 112

Culley, Margaret: "Edna Pontellier: 'A Solitary Soul,'" 159 n. 28

D

Daniel Deronda (Eliot), 157 -58n. 19

Darling, Marsha: "In the Realm of Responsibility: A Conversation with Toni Morrison," 128 , 132

Davidson, Arnold E., 100 , 101

Davis, Lennard J.: Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel, 150 n. 6

Death, 42 , 155 n. 11;

and aesthetics, 159 -60n. 33;

of desire, 36 -39;

and ghost metaphor, 100 , 105 -6;

Homer on, 19 , 20 -23;

and misogyny in Frankenstein,82 -83;

and mourning, 137 -39;

relationship to self-preservation, 63 -67;

relationship to storytelling, 132 -33;

Sappho and, 19 , 20 -23, 33 ;

and sea metaphor, 27 , 31 , 33 ;

of slaves in Middle Passage, 122 -23, 132 , 147 ;

and transfer of power, 20 -23.

See also Mourning

De Bolla, Peter: The Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics, and the Subject,154 n. 4, 164 n. 28

Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders,170 n. 11;

Robinson Crusoe,170 n. 11;

Roxana, 170 n. 11

De Iside et Osiride (Plutarch), 110 , 182 n. 50

DeJean, Joan: Fictions of Sappho,153 n. 2

de Lauretis, Teresa: Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema,149 n. 2, 157 n. 16

de Man, Paul: "Phenomenality and Materiality in Kant," 158 n. 22

Demeter-Persephone myth, 182 n. 50

De Quincey, Thomas: "A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Literature," 48

Derrida, Jacques, 81 ;

on detachment and parergon,22 , 116 , 121 , 178 n. 15;

on Isis as murderess, 117 , 135 , 179 n. 23;

"Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy," 117 -19;

The Truth in Painting,114 , 117 , 178 n. 15;

and veil metaphor, 121 , 135

Desire, 24 , 87 ;

fulfillment as death of, 36 -39;

nature of, in The Awakening,35 -39

Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Armstrong), 171 n. 13

Detachment:

and attachment in African-American literature, 119 -22;

attachment of Isis and, 108 -19;

impossibility of, 115 -16, 119 ;

in Kantian sublime, 108 -19, 139 ;

in mourning, 138 -39

Diacritics: "My Monster/My Self" (Johnson), 174 n. 34;

"The Nuclear Sublime" (Ferguson), 174 n. 33

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: "traumatic events," 126 , 180 n. 36

Dickinson, Emily, 90 , 97

Dictionary of American Slang: "spook," 177 n. 2

Differences: "The Phallus: Masculine Identity and the 'Exchange of Women'" (Goux), 178 n. 10

Differend: Phrases in Dispute, The (Lyotard), 34 -35

Differend, the, 34 -35

Dimock, Wai-Chee, 59 , 64 -65;

"Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, " 165 -66n. 34, 167 -68n. 43

Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics, and the Subject, The (De Bolla), 154 n. 4, 164 n. 28

Displeasure, 34 -35, 74 , 112.

See also Pleasure

Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, The (Coon), 167 n. 41

Dubnoff, Julia, 153 -54n. 3

Dumas, Henry, 181 -82n. 46

Dynamical sublime, 70 -71, 79 -80

E

Eagleton, Terry, 47 , 59 , 166 n. 36;

Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory,150 n. 6

Economy. See Capitalist economy; Speculation

Edith Wharton: Modern Critical Views: "Debasing Exchange: Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth " (Dimock), 165 -66n. 34, 167 -68n. 43

Edith Wharton's Argument with America (Ammons), 165 -66n. 34

Edwards, Paul, 119 -20

Eliot, George: Daniel Deronda,157 -58n. 19

Emery, Mary Lou, 90

Emma (Austen), 171 n. 13

Emmeline (C. Smith), 78

Emotion, 113 -16, 124 , 178 n. 15

End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime, The (Hertz), 157 n. 15;

"Afterword: The End of the Line," 157 n. 19;

"Notion of Blockage in the Literature of the Sublime," 20 -21, 22 -23, 157 -58n. 19;

"Reading of Longinus," 15 , 20

Endurance of Frankenstein, The: "Female Gothic" (Moers), 174 n. 34;

"Thoughts on the Aggression of Daughters" (Knoepflmacher), 174 n. 34

English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats, The (Sacks), 183 n. 59

Essay on the Sublime (Baille), 170 n. 11

Essays on Kant's Political Philosophy: "Kant's Political Cosmology: Freedom and Desire in the 'Remarks' Concerning Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime " (Shell), 169 n. 4

Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference (Fuss), 149 n. 2

Ethics, 40 -41;

of risk in The House of Mirth,55 -67

Evelina (Burney), 78

F

Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (Davis), 150 n. 6

Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton, A (Wolff), 165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41

Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather (Fryer), 165 -66n. 34 , 167 n. 41

Felman, Shoshana, 133 -34, 146

Female Intruder in the Novels of Edith Wharton, The (Wershoven), 165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41

Female Page, The (Boyd), 77

Feminine, 47 , 183 n. 59;

beauty as, 49 , 72 -73;

Burkian view of, 47 -50, 53 -55, 57 , 162 n. 10;

in Kantian sublime,

69 , 71 -73;

monstrosity as, 82 -83, 87 -90, 165 n. 32;

and role of private property in happiness, 91 -92;

sexual differences and aesthetic categories, 47 -50;

and subjugation of female figures, 69 , 71 -75;

violence as, 53 -55;

and woman as blocking agent, 22 -26.

See also Gender

Feminine misogyny, 69 , 75 , 94 , 101 , 102 -3.

See also Misogyny

Feminism, 172 n. 17, 172 -73n. 20

Ferguson, Frances: "A Commentary on Suzanne Guerlac's 'Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime,'" 155 -57n. 14;

"Legislating the Sublime," 163 n. 14, 173 n. 28;

"The Nuclear Sublime," 174 n. 33;

Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation, 167 n. 40

Fetterly, Judith: "'The Temptation to be a Beautiful Object': Double Standard and Double Bind in The House of Mirth, " 165 -66n. 34

Fictions of Sappho (DeJean), 153 n. 2

Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews,170 n. 11;

Tom Jones, 170 n. 11

Fielding, Sarah, 76

Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison: The Cultural Function of Narrative (Mobley), 182 n. 50

Fontenrose, Joseph: Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins,182 n. 50

Foucault, Michel: The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language,149 n. 1

Frankenstein (M. Shelley), 69 , 174 n. 30;

and connections to Kantian sublime, 79 -90;

gender of characters in, 82 -83;

misogyny in, 79 , 82 -83, 87 -90;

nature metaphor in, 84 -86

Frederick the Great, 109

Freedom. See Liberty

Freeman, Barbara Claire: "The Rise of the Sublime: Sacrifice and Misogyny in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics," 170 n. 11

Freud, Sigmund, 73 -75, 140 ;

"Female Sexuality," 169 -70n. 8;

"Femininity," 169 -70n. 8;

Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety,138 -39;

"Mourning and Melancholia," 138 ;

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis,169 -70n. 8;

on Oedipus complex, 23 -25, 157 n. 18;

Sexuality and the Psychology of Love,169 -70n. 8;

"Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes," 169 -70n. 8;

Totem and Taboo,138 ;

on trauma, 125 , 126 , 127

Fry, Paul H., 18 ;

The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory,155 n. 13

Fryer, Judith: Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather,165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41

Fuss, Diana: Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference,149 n. 2

G

Gallop, Jane, 89

Garber, Marjorie, 119 ;

Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety,152 n. 21

Gardiner, Judith Kegan: "Good Morning, Midnight; Good Night, Modernism," 175 n. 47;

on results of social polarization, 92 -93, 99 , 100

Gender, 47 , 157 n. 16, 157 -58n. 19;

of blocking agents, 22 -26;

of characters in Frankenstein,82 -83;

in structure of sublime, 3 -4, 10 , 72 , 150 n. 5.

See also Feminine; Masculine; Sexual differences

Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism: "Toward a Female Sublime" (Yaeger), 149 -50n. 3

Genders: "Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening " (Stange), 159 n. 28

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Butler), 177 n. 68

Genre: "The Novel of Awakening" (Rosowski), 159 n. 28

Ghost metaphor, 177 n. 2;

and African-American literature, 105 -6, 116 ;

in Beloved , 126 , 132 , 136 -37;

in Good Morning, Midnight,96 -103;

and Isis myth, 118 -19.

See also Africanist presence

Gilbert, Sandra M., 38 , 79 , 89 ;

Madwoman in the Attic,174 n. 34;

"The Second Coming of Aphrodite: Kate Chopin's Fantasy of Desire," 31 -33

Goddess metaphor, 31 -33

Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century, The (Michaels), 165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41

Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys): as interpretation of Joyce's Ulysses, 99 -100, 103 ;

role of money in happiness, 90 -93;

and structure of Kantian sublime, 90 -91, 94 , 97 , 100 -104;

as told by monster and victim, 69 , 90 -104;

will vs. victimization by society in, 6 , 69

Goux, Jean-Joseph: "The Phallus: Masculine Identity and the 'Exchange of Women,'" 178 n. 10

Graves, Robert, 111

Greenblatt, Stephen: Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare,173 n. 27

Greene, Gayle: "Feminist Fiction and the Uses of Memory," 183 n. 60

Griffiths, J. Gwyn, 182 n. 50

Grube, G. M. A.: Longinus on Great Writing translation, 14 , 153 n. 1, 153 -54n. 3

Gubar, Susan, 38 , 79 , 89 ;

Madwoman in the Attic,174 n. 34;

"The Second Coming of Aphrodite: Kate Chopin's Fantasy of Desire," 31 -33

Guerlac, Suzanne, 17 ;

The Impersonal Sublime: Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautrémont,154 n. 8;

"Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime," 155 -57n. 14

Gulliver's Travels (Swift), 170 n. 11

H

Hartmann, Heidi, 169 n. 2

Hastings, Warren, 45 , 59 , 163 n. 12

Haywood, Eliza, 76 , 77 , 78 , 172 n. 14

Heidegger, Martin, 86 , 155 n. 11;

On the Way to Language,30

Heidegger and 'the jews' (Lyotard), 181 n. 38

Henderson, Mae G., 122 , 135 ;

"Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text," 182 -83n. 52

Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects: "Phenomenality and Materiality in Kant" (de Man), 158 n. 22

Herodotus: Histories,132 -33

Herr Vogt (Shapiro), 166 -67n. 38

Hertz, Neil, 153 -54n. 3, 155 n. 11, 157 n. 15;

"Afterword: The End of the Line," 157 n. 19;

on blockage, 22 -26;

The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime,15 , 20 -21, 22 -23, 157 n. 15, 157 -58n. 19;

"Notion of Blockage in the Literature of the Sublime," 20 -21, 22 -23, 157 -58n. 19;

and progression toward transcendence, 32 -33, 37 ;

"Reading of Longinus," 15 , 20 ;

and sea metaphor, 22 -23;

and transfer of power, 20 -23;

and woman as blocking agent, 23 -26

Hirsch, Marianne: "Maternity and Rememory in Toni Morrison's Beloved, " 182 n. 50, 182 -83n. 52

Histories (Herodotus), 132 -33

Hochman, Barbara: "Representation and Exchange in The House of Mirth, " 165 -66n. 34 , 167 n. 41

Homans, Margaret: Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing,174 n. 34, 174 -75n. 36

Homer:

comparison of Sappho and, 17 -19, 20 , 22 -23, 31 ;

and death, 19 , 20 , 22 -23;

and sea metaphor, 22 -23;

and transfer of power, 20 , 21

House, Elizabeth Balken: "The Awakening: Kate Chopin's 'Endlessly Rocking' Cycle," 159 n. 28

House metaphor, 119 , 123 -24

House of Mirth, The (Wharton), 6 , 55 -67.

See also Wharton, Edith

Hughes, Peter: "Originality and Allusion in the Writings of Edmund Burke," 162 -63n. 11

Hurston, Zora Neale: Their Eyes Were Watching God,122 , 180 n. 29

I

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (Mitchell), 160 -61n. 5 , 164 n. 20, 165 n. 31

Identity, 3 , 8 -10, 71 , 94 ;

American national and cultural identities, 107 -8, 177 n. 4, 5;

of the individual, 7 -8;

politics and, 11 -12;

women writers and development of, 170 -71n. 12

Illuminations: "The Storyteller" (Benjamin), 127 , 128

Imagination:

in Good Morning, Midnight,94 , 97 , 101 -4;

in internal dialogue with reason, 94 -96, 97 ;

in Kantian sublime, 68 -79;

as scapegoat, 75 , 77 , 100 ;

self-sacrifice by, 94 , 97 , 101 -4;

and women as submissive, 71 -75.

See also Reason

Imagining a Self: Autobiography and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England (Spacks), 172 n. 15

Impeachment of Warren Hastings, The (Marshall), 163 n. 12

Impersonal Sublime: Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautrémont, The (Guerlac), 154 n. 8

Inchbald, Elizabeth: A Simple Story,78 ;

Victim of Prejudice,173 n. 20

Influence, anxiety of, 17 -18, 155 n. 11

Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety (Freud), 138 -39

Inhuman: Reflections on Time, The (Lyotard), 152 nn. 20, 22;

"Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable," 181 n. 38

Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories (Butler): "Imitation and Gender Insubordination," 177 n. 68

Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics (Readings), 160 n. 34

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir: "The Site of Memory" (Morrison), 119 -20

Irigaray, Luce, 9

Isidore (archbishop of Seville), 111

Isis (Egyptian goddess of mourning), 129 , 133 , 182 n. 50;

connections to Beloved,135 , 137 ;

and detachment vs. attachment in Kantian sublime, 108 -19;

as example of parergon,115 ;

and ghost metaphor, 118 -19;

magical powers of, 111 , 178 n. 14;

as metaphor for beautiful, 108 -9, 112 ;

as murderess of Osiris, 117 , 135 , 179 n. 23;

myth of, 110 -11, 147 ;

and veil metaphor, 109 , 116 -19, 135

J

Jacobus, Mary, 82 , 89 ;

Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism,174 n. 34

James, Henry: "Roderick Hudson," 169 n. 1

Jameson, Fredric, 155 n. 11, 176 n. 67;

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act,150 n. 6;

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,166 n. 36;

"Regarding Postmodernism: A Conversation with Fredric Jameson," 166 n. 36

Jean Rhys: A Critical Study (Staley), 175 n. 47

Johnson, Barbara, 82 , 179 n. 25;

"My Monster/My Self," 174 n. 34;

"Response," 169 n. 2

Jones, Anne Goodwin: "Kate Chopin: The Life Behind the Mask," 159 n. 28

Joseph Andrews (H. Fielding), 170 n. 11

Joyce, James: Ulysses,99 -100, 103

K

Kant : "On a Newly Emerged Noble Tone in Philosophy," 116 -17, 129 , 178 -79n. 16 , 179 n. 23

Kant, Immanuel, 3 , 29 , 160 n. 34, 178 n. 15;

Anthropology,72 ;

attachment vs. detachment of sublime, 4 -5, 108 -19, 135 , 139 ;

and beauty, 70 , 72 -73, 85 , 113 , 116 ;

Beloved and sublime structure, 106 , 113 , 126 , 129 , 136 -37, 139 ;

Critique of Practical Reason,112 ;

Critique of Pure Reason,112 ;

definition of emotion, 113 -16;

definition of sublime, 71 -72, 79 -80, 87 , 113 -16;

Frankenstein as inversion of sublime, 81 -90;

Good Morning, Midnight and sublime structure, 90 -91, 94 , 97 , 100 -104;

imagination's defeat in sublime, 68 -79, 158 n. 22;

and nature metaphor, 84 -86;

and notion of blockage, 22 -23, 157 n. 19;

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime,72 , 169 n. 4, 178 -79n. 16;

"On a Newly Emerged Noble Tone in Philosophy," 116 -17, 129 , 178 -79n. 16, 179 n. 23;

on philosophers, 117 -18;

reason's amplification in sublime, 68 -79;

sacrifice in attainment of sublime, 68 -79, 152 n. 20, 158 n. 22;

and subjugation of female figures, 69 , 71 -75;

two forms of sublime, 70 -71.

See also Critique of Judgment

Kant's Lehre vom Genie und die Entstehung der Kritik der Urteilskraft (Schlapp), 169 n. 5

Kaplan, Amy: The Social Construction of American Realism,165 -66n. 34 , 167 n. 41

Keats, John, 8 -9, 151 -52n. 17

Kiely, Robert: The Romantic Novel in England,174 n. 34

Knapp, Steven, 71

Knoepflmacher, U. C.: "Thoughts on the Aggression of Daughters," 174 n. 34

Knowledge: African-American presence, 106 -7;

Kantian search for, in sublime theory, 83 , 86 -90;

search for, in Frankenstein , 82 -83, 86 -90;

sight as metaphor for, 85 -86

Kofman, Sarah: "The Economy of Respect: Kant and Respect for Women," 179 n. 23

Kramnick, Isaac, 54 , 164 -65n. 29;

The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative,163 n. 12, 164 n. 20, 164 -65n. 29

Kristeva, Julia, 5 -6;

"L'abjet d'amour, " 157 -58n. 19

L

Lacan, Jacques, 116

Language, 16 -17, 149 -50n. 3, 169 n. 2;

encounter with desire as encounter with, 37 -39;

as exchange method, 38 -39, 52 ;

and relationship between auditor and orator, 4 -5, 7 ;

and sea metaphor, 30 , 31 , 33 -35;

and storytelling ritual, 111 , 137 -38, 140 ;

trauma's effect on, 116 , 132 , 137 -38, 140.

See also Unspeakable, the

Language of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory,158 n. 20

Language of the unsayable. See Unspeakable, the

Laub, Dori, 124 , 126 -27, 137

Leopardi: Poems and Prose,152 n. 17

Leopardi, Giacomo: "The Infinite," 152 n. 17

Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (Lyotard), 160 n. 34

Letters on a Regicide Peace (E. Burke), 47 , 50 -51

Letter to a Noble Lord, A (E. Burke), 165 n. 32

Levine, Steven Z.: "Seascapes of the Sublime: Vernet, Monet, and the Oceanic Feeling," 158 n. 23

Liberty, 112 , 152 n. 20;

and politics of sublime, 10 -11;

speculation as threat to, 51 -52, 64

Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave (Bell), 120

Lifton, Robert Jay, 127

"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (Wordsworth), 8

Literature and the Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature: "City Limits, Village Values" (Morrison), 181 -82n. 46

Longinus, 13 , 151 n. 12, 155 n. 11;

comparison of Sappho and Homer by, 17 -19, 20 , 22 -23;

Frankenstein as inversion of sublime theory, 84 , 86 ;

and relationship between auditor and orator, 4 -5, 28 ;

sublime theory of, 16 -21, 25 , 170 -71n. 12;

on unity of Sappho's lyric, 13 -15, 16 , 155 -56n. 14.

See also Peri Hypsous

Longinus on Great Writing translation (Grube), 14 , 153 n. 1, 153 -54n. 3

"Longinus" on Sublimity translation (Russell), 14 , 153 n. 1, 153 -54n. 3

Lorde, Audre, 102

Lyotard, Jean-François, 59 , 121 ;

"Complexity and the Sublime," 159 -60n. 33;

The Differend: Phrases in Dispute,34 -35;

Heidegger and 'the jews,'181 n. 38;

The Inhuman: Reflections on Time,152 nn. 20, 22, 181 n. 38;

"The Interest of the Sublime," 150 n. 4;

Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime,160 n. 34;

Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event,181 n. 38;

The Postmodern Condition,34 ;

"Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable," 181 n. 38;

"The Sublime and the Avant-Garde," 160 n. 34;

theory of the differend, 34 -35;

and unpresentable in sublime, 11 , 37 , 160 n. 34

Lyotard Reader, The: "The Sublime and the Avant-Garde," 160 n. 34

M

MacCarthy, B. G.: Women Writers: Their Contribution to the English Novel, 172 n. 15

MacPherson, C. B., 161 n. 6

Madwoman in the Attic (Gilbert and Gubar), 174 n. 34

Manley, Delariviere, 77

Maria: On the Wrongs of Women (Wollstonecraft), 173 n. 20

Market capitalism. See Capitalist economy

Marshall, P. J.: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings,163 n. 12

Marx, Karl, 59 , 66 ;

Capital, 166 -67n. 38

Marxism and Literature (Williams), 150 n. 6

Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (Mellor), 174 n. 34

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgeny (Veeder), 174 n. 34

Masculine, 163 n. 12, 183 n. 59;

gender differences and aesthetic categories, 47 -50;

role of money and female attitude toward, 91 -92;

terror and power as, 48 -49, 54 , 72.

See also Gender

Maternity:

as male in Good Morning, Midnight,96 -99;

as monstrous in Frankenstein,82 -83, 87 -90;

and rememory in Beloved,140 -43, 182 n. 50, 182 -83n. 52

Mathematical sublime, 70 -71, 79 -80

McKeon, Michael: The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740,171 n. 13

Mellor, Anne K.: Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters,174 n. 34;

"Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein, " 174 n. 34

Mellown, Elgin W., 100

Memoirs of Madame de la Tour du Pin,165 n. 29

Metaphor:

bridge, 144 -48;

goddess, 31 -33;

house, 119 , 123 -24;

nature, 84 -86;

room, 91 -93;

wolf, 93 -96,

102 .

See also Ghost metaphor; Sea metaphor; Veil metaphor

Michaels, Walter Benn, 35 -37, 168 n. 45;

The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century,165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41

Michelson, Bruce: "Edith Wharton's House Divided," 167 n. 41

Michigan Quarterly Review: "Unspeakable Things Spoken: the Afro-American Presence in American Literature" (Morrison), 105 , 123 -24

Milton, John, 42

Misogyny, 7 , 169 n. 2;

in Frankenstein,79 , 82 -83, 87 -90;

in Good Morning, Midnight,94 , 101 , 102 -3;

in Kantian sublime, 69 , 72 , 75 ;

and maternity as monstrous, 87 -90

Mitchell, W. J. T., 44 , 45 -46, 72 ;

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology,160 -61n. 5, 164 n. 20, 165 n. 31

Mobley, Marilyn Sanders: "A Different Remembering: Memory, History, and Meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved, " 182 -83n. 52;

Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison: The Cultural Function of Narrative,182 n. 50

Modernism, 151 n. 12

Moers, Ellen: "Female Gothic," 174 n. 34

Moll Flanders (Defoe), 170 n. 11

Money. See Capitalist economy; Speculation

Monk, Samuel Holt, 22 -26;

The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in Eighteenth-Century England, 170 n. 11, 170 -71n. 12

Monstrosity:

as compared to colossal, 80 -82;

definition of, 80 -81;

Good Morning, Midnight as told by monster, 90 -104;

maternity as, 82 -83, 87 -90;

of slavery, 119 -22

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley: Turkish Letters,173 n. 20

Morrison, Toni, 6 ;

attachment and the sublime, 119 -22;

"Behind the Making of The Black Book, " 130 ;

"City Limits, Village Values," 181 -82n. 46 ;

"A Conversation," 179 -80n. 28;

on objectives of writing, 121 , 145 -46, 148 , 179 -80n. 28;

"On the Backs of Blacks," 122 , 177 n. 5;

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination,106 -7, 177 n. 4;

"Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation," 179 -80n. 28;

"The Site of Memory," 119 -20;

slavery as unspeakable but expressed by, 12 , 122 -32, 139 , 140 , 145 -47;

Song of Solomon,135 ;

"Unspeakable Things Spoken: the Afro-American Presence in American Literature," 105 , 123 -24.

See also Beloved

Mother. See Maternity

Mourning, 116 , 168 -69n. 47 , 183 n. 59;

attachment in, 140 -44;

in Beloved,137 -44, 147 ;

and death, 137 -39;

detachment in, 138 -39;

relationship to storytelling, 111 , 132 -39.

See also Death; Isis (Egyptian goddess of mourning)

Mourning and Panegyric: The Poetics of Pastoral Ceremony (Schenck), 183 n. 59

N

Nancy, Jean-Luc: "The Sublime Offering," 152 n. 20

Nature metaphor, 84 -86

Naylor, Gloria: "A Conversation," 179 -80n. 28

Negative pleasure, 74 , 112

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Freud): "Femininity," 169 -70n. 8

New Literary History: "A Commentary on Suzanne Guerlac's 'Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime'" (Ferguson), 155 -57n. 14;

"Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime" (Guerlac), 155 -57n. 14;

"Seascapes of the Sublime: Vernet, Monet, and the

Oceanic Feeling" (Levine), 158 n. 23;

"Versions of a Human Sublime" (Paulson), 154 -55n. 9

No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century: "Second Coming of Aphrodite: Kate Chopin's Fantasy of Desire, The" (Gilbert and Gubar), 31 -33

Novel: "Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Partial Dissent" (Spangler), 159 n. 28;

"'A Language Which Nobody Understood': Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening " (Yaeger), 33 -34, 35 ;

"Representation and Exchange in The House of Mirth " (Hochman), 165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41

Novels:

and acceptance of women's books, 78 -79, 172 nn. 14, 15, 16, 17;

progress and popularity of, 76 , 78 -79, 172 nn. 13, 15, 16, 17;

as vehicle for investigating sublime, 6 -8, 170 -71n. 12;

women writers and aesthetic theory, 5 -6, 76 -79.

See also Women's Fiction

O

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime (Kant), 72 , 169 n. 4, 178 -79n. 16

Oedipus complex, 23 -25, 101 , 157 n. 18, 157 -58n. 19

Of the Sublime: Presence in Question: "The Interest of the Sublime" (Lyotard), 150 n. 4;

"The Sublime Offering" (Nancy), 152 n. 20

On the Way to Language (Heidegger), 30

Opposites:

in The Awakening,6 , 38 -39;

in Beloved,136 -37;

in Phainetai moi,13 -15, 16 , 38 , 155 -56n. 14;

transformation of, 43 -45, 160 -61n. 5

Oppression, 39 ;

as internal, 75 , 102 ;

and sea metaphor, 29 , 33 ;

of women, 5 -6, 10 , 76 -79

Orator, identification between auditor and, 4 -5, 7 , 17 , 27 -28

Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, The (McKeon), 171 n. 13

Orlando: A Biography (Woolf), 93 -94

Osiris (husband-brother to Isis), 110 -11, 135 , 147 , 178 n. 10

Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection (Budge), 110 , 111 , 178 n. 14

Other, the, 35 ;

in Good Morning, Midnight,94 -96, 97 , 98 ;

and relationship between auditor and orator, 5 , 27 -28;

self as distinct from, 25 , 89 ;

in structure of sublime, 2 , 3 , 8 , 11

Oxford English Dictionary: "aesthetic," 129 ;

"modernism," 151 n. 12;

"monster," 88 ;

"speculation," 41 ;

"timorous," 43

Oxford Literary Review, The: "Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy" (Derrida), 117 -19

P

Pamela (Richardson), 170 n. 11

Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida (Carroll), 160 n. 34

Parerga (ornaments or frames): definition of, 113 ;

Derrida analysis of, 116 , 117 -19, 178 n. 15;

and judgments of taste, 114 -16;

in Kantian sublime, 113 , 117

Parker, Patricia, 73

Patriarchy, 4 , 10 , 47 , 72 , 151 n. 7;

definition of, 169 n. 2;

feminine misogyny as symptom of, 69 , 75 , 169 n. 2;

oppression of females by, 75 , 79 , 100 , 102 ;

sea as alternative to, 31 -32

Paul, Saint (apostle), 147 -48

Paulson, Ronald, 45 ;

Representations of Revolution (1789-1820),162 n. 10, 165 n. 31;

"Versions of a Human Sublime," 154 -55n. 9

Pease, Donald E., 44 -45;

"Sublime Politics," 161 -62n. 7

Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event (Lyotard), 181 n. 38

Peri Hypsous (Longinus), 3 -4, 13 , 18 , 155 -56n. 14.

See also Longinus

Perry, Ruth: Women, Letters, and the Novel,77 , 172 -73n. 20

Phainetai moi (Sappho): comparison of Homer and, 17 -19, 20 , 22 ;

opposites in, 13 -15, 16 , 38 , 155 -56n. 14;

relationship between auditor and orator in, 27 -28;

and transfer of power, 20 -23.

See also Sappho

Phillips, Adam, 43 , 161 n. 6

Philological Quarterly: "Frankenstein: The Mother, the Daughter, and the Monster" (Youngquist), 174 n. 34

Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, The (E. Burke), 155 n. 10, 170 n. 11;

aesthetics categories in, 45 , 47 -50;

and gender differences, 3 -4, 47 -50, 72 , 150 n. 5;

as speculative work, 40 -45.

See also Burke, Edmund

Plato, 17 -18;

Republic, 108

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Morrison), 106 -7, 177 n. 4

Pleasure, 112 , 159 -60n. 33 ;

and the differend, 34 -35;

human significance in frivolous society, 64 -67;

relationship to pain, 43 -46, 73 , 74 ;

relationship to terror, 4 -5

Plutarch: De Iside et Osiride,110 , 182 n. 50

PMLA: "Pynchon's Postmodern Sublime" (Redfield), 155 n. 11;

"Yeats: Tragic Joy and the Sublime" (Ramazani), 155 n. 11

Pocock, J. G. A., 51

Poétique : "Reading of Longinus" (Hertz), 20

Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, The (Jameson), 150 n. 6

Politics, 165 n. 31, 167 -68n. 43, 176 n. 67;

in Beloved,124 , 130 -31, 146 ;

Burke on aesthetics and, 45 -47, 161 -62n. 7;

and Burke's sexual differences, 50 -55;

of feminine sublime, 10 -12;

relationship to ethics and aesthetics, 40 -41, 45 -47;

of writing, 76 , 179 -80n. 28

Poovey, Mary: "Persuasion and the Promises of Love," 176 n. 64;

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer,174 n. 34

Postmodern Condition, The (Lyotard), 34

Postmodernism: ICA Documents: "Complexity and the Sublime" (Lyotard), 159 -60n. 33

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Jameson), 166 n. 36

Power, 17 , 31 , 170 n. 10;

and imagination, 74 , 158 n. 22;

of marketplace in society, 64 -67;

as masculine, 48 -49;

as possession, 18 -19, 130 ;

struggle for mastery between powers, 2 -3;

transfer of, 20 -23, 155 n. 10, 161 -62n. 7;

women's oppression and, 6 , 8

Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 8 -9, 20 -21, 23 -24

Proper Lady and the Woman Writer, The (Poovey), 174 n. 34

Psammenitus (king of Egypt), 132 -33

Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins (Fontenrose), 182 n. 50

R

Race, 105 , 150 n. 5, 177 n. 5

Radcliffe, Ann, 76 , 172 n. 14

Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative, The (Kramnick), 163 n. 12

Ramazani, Jahan: "Yeats: Tragic Joy and the Sublime," 155 n. 11

Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory, The (Fry), 155 n. 13

Readings, Bill, 11 -12;

Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics,160 n. 34

Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism (Jacobus), 174 n. 34

Reason:

as destroyer in Frankenstein , 79 , 83 ;

in Kantian sublime, 68 -79;

and role of imagination, 73 -75;

as Sasha's voice in Good Morning, Midnight,94 -96, 97 .

See also Imagination

Recovery/Delusions, etc. (Berryman), 152 n. 17

Redemption, 32 -33

Redfield, Marc W.: "Pynchon's Postmodern Sublime," 155 n. 11

Reflections on the Revolution in France (E. Burke), 45 -47, 50 -55, 161 -62n. 7

Reid, Christopher, 51

Religion, 73 , 80 ;

of Africans, 178 -79n. 16;

the Bible, 73 , 135 , 147 -48

Remarks on the Policy of the Allies (E. Burke), 50

Remembrance, 110 -11

Rememory, 125 -29, 145

Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Greenblatt), 173 n. 27

Representation of Women in Fiction, The: "Persuasion and the Promises of Love" (Poovey), 176 n. 64

Representations: "The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's House of Mirth " (Showalter), 165 n. 33, 167 n. 41

Representations of Motherhood: "Maternity and Rememory in Toni Morrison's Beloved " (Hirsch), 182 n. 50, 182 -83n. 52

Representations of Revolution (1789-1820) (Paulson), 162 n. 10, 165 n. 31

Republic (Plato), 108

Resistance, 80 , 167 -68n. 43;

in The House of Mirth,63 -67, 167 n. 43, 168 n. 45;

and internalized oppression, 10 , 102 ;

and politics, 11 -12;

to power of frivolous society, 64 -67

Rhetoric of English India, The (Suleri), 163 n. 12

Rhys, Jean, 6 , 99 -100, 103 .

See also Good Morning, Midnight

Richardson, Samuel: Pamela,170 n. 11

Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding (Watt), 170 -71n. 12

Rise of the Women Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen, The (Spencer), 172 nn. 15, 16, 17

Risk: in capitalist economy, 63 -67, 168 n. 45;

as central to sublime experience, 43 -44, 49 ;

ethics of, 55 -67;

of speculation, 51 -53, 59 -67.

See also Chance

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 170 n. 11

Romanticism and Feminism: "Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein " (Mellor), 174 n. 34

Romantic Novel in England, The (Kiely), 174 n. 34

Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence, The (Weiskel), 22 , 151 n. 12, 154 n. 8, 176 n. 62

Room metaphor: in A Room of One's Own,91 -93;

in Good Morning, Midnight,91 -93

Room of One's Own, A (Woolf), 91 -92, 171 -72n. 13

Rosowski, Susan J.: "The Novel of Awakening," 159 n. 28

Rowson, Susannah: Charlotte Temple,77

Roxana (Defoe), 170 n. 11

Rubenstein, Marc: "'My Accursed Origin': The Search for the Mother in Frankenstein, " 174 n. 34

Rushdy, Ashraf H. A.: "'Rememory': Primal Scenes and Construction in Toni Morrison's Novels," 183 n. 60

Russell, D. A., 16 ;

"Longinus" on Sublimity translation, 14 , 153 n. 1, 153 -54n. 3

S

Sacks, Peter M.: The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats,183 n. 59

Sacrifice, 89 ;

by females in women's fiction, 76 -79;

of imagination in Good Morning, Midnight,94 , 97 , 101 -4;

in Kantian sublime, 68 -79;

of self, 94 , 97 , 101 -4.

See also Victimization

Sade, Marquis de, 73

Santner, Eric L.: Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany,184 n. 63

Sappho:

comparison of Homer and, 17 -19, 20 , 22 -23, 31 ;

and death, 19 , 20 -23, 33 ;

representation of unity, 13 -15, 16 , 155 -56n. 14 ;

and sea metaphor, 22 -23.

See also Phainetai moi

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 66 -67

Scapegoating, 157 -58n. 19;

against female figures, 69 , 72 , 83 ;

of imagination, 75 , 77 , 100 ;

self-scapegoats, 77 , 94 .

See also Victimization

Schenck, Celeste Marguerite: "Feminism and Deconstruction: Re-Constructing the Elegy," 183 n. 59;

Mourning and Panegyric: The Poetics of Pastoral Ceremony,183 n. 59

Schlapp, Otto: Kant's Lehre vom Genie und die Entstehung der Kritik der Urteilskraft,169 n. 5

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 28 -29

Schor, Naomi, 169 n. 6

Scott, Joan W.: "The Evidence of Experience," 149 n. 2

Sea metaphor, 22 -23, 48 ;

in The Awakening,12 , 26 -35;

desire and fulfillment in, 37 -39;

and language, 31 , 33 -35;

and relationship between auditor and orator, 27 -28;

traditional literary representations of, 28 -33

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky: Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire,169 n. 2, 170 n. 10

Self, 9 , 176 n. 64;

loss of, 19 , 31 ;

in moment of sublime, 3 , 71 ;

and the other, 25 , 89

Self-awareness. See Identity

Self-mutilation, 75 , 90 , 92 -93

Self-preservation, 63 -67, 95 -96, 100

Self-sacrifice, 94 , 97 , 101 -4

Self-scapegoating, 77 , 94

Self-victimization, 94 , 100 , 101

Sexual differences, 165 n. 32;

in aesthetics, 72 -73;

Burke's assumptions about, 47 -50;

in Freud's feminine sexuality, 74 -75;

in Kantian sublime, 74 -75;

in politics, 50 -55.

See also Feminine; Gender; Masculine

Sexuality and the Psychology of Love (Freud): "Female Sexuality," 169 -70n. 8;

"Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes," 169 -70n. 8

Shapiro, Gary: Herr Vogt,166 -67n. 38

Shell, Susan: "Kant's Political Cosmology: Freedom and Desire in the 'Remarks' Concerning Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime, " 169 n. 4

Shelley, Mary, 69 , 79 -90.

See also Frankenstein

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 8 -9

Showalter, Elaine: "The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's House of Mirth, " 165 n. 33, 167 n. 41

Shulman, Robert: "Divided Selves and the Market Society: Politics and Psychology in The House of Mirth, " 165 -66n. 34

Signs : "Feminist Fiction and the Uses of Memory" (Greene), 183 n. 60

Simple Story, A (Inchbald), 7

Smith, Barbara Hernstein, 141

Smith, Charlotte, 76 , 172 n. 14;

Emmeline, 78

Smith, Stewart: "Narrative Stances in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, " 159 n. 28

Smith, Valerie, 129 -32, 142 ;

"'Circling the Subject': History and Narrative in Toni Morrison's Beloved, " 180 n. 33, 183 n. 52, 184 n. 65

Social Construction of American Realism, The (Kaplan), 165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41

Social Research: "The Economy of Respect: Kant and Respect for Women" (Kofman), 179 n. 23

Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (Ferguson), 167 n. 40

Song of Solomon (Morrison), 135

Southern Review, The: "A Conversation" (Naylor and Morrison), 179 -80n. 28;

"The Five Awakenings of Edna Pontellier" (Wheeler), 159 n. 28

Spacks, Patricia Meyer, 77 -78, 173 n. 26;

Imagining a Self: Autobiography and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England,172 n. 15

Spangler, George, M.: "Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Partial Dissent," 159 n. 28

Spectator, 4 -5, 30 , 46 , 154 -55n. 9

Spectator: "Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination" (Addison), 4

Speculation, 164 n. 28;

in Burkian sublime, 40 , 41 -42, 47 , 50 -51, 58 ;

definition of, 41 -42;

language as abstract speculation, 51 -52;

relationship to art, 59 -67;

relationship to beauty, 56 -59;

relationship to risk, 51 -53, 59 -67.

See also Capitalist economy

Spencer, Jane, 76 , 78 , 172 -73n. 20, 173 n. 23;

The Rise of the Women Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen,172 nn. 15, 16, 17

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty: "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism," 173 n. 28

Staley, Thomas F., 99 -100;

Jean Rhys: A Critical Study,175 n. 47

Stange, Margit: "Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening, " 159 n. 28

Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy,170 n. 11

Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany (Santner), 184 n. 63

Studies in American Fiction: "Edith Wharton's House Divided" (Michelson), 167 n. 41;

"Narrative Stances in Kate Chopin's The Awakening " (Sullivan and S. Smith), 159 n. 28;

"'The Temptation to be a Beautiful Object': Double Standard and Double Bind in The House of Mirth " (Fetterly), 165 -66n. 34

Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Art and Aesthetics: "Legislating the Sublime" (Ferguson), 163 n. 14, 173 n. 28

Studies in Romanticism: "A Philosophical View of the Gothic Novel" (Brown), 173 n. 28;

"'My Accursed Origin': The Search for the Mother in Frankenstein " (Rubenstein), 174 n. 34

Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in Eighteenth-Century England, The (Monk), 170 n. 11, 170 -71n. 12

Sublime Object of Ideology, The (Zizek), 166 n. 36

Suleri, Sara, 45 , 48 ;

The Rhetoric of English India,163 n. 12

Sullivan, Ruth: "Narrative Stances in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, " 159 n. 28

Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels,170 n. 11

T

Taste, judgment of, 113 -16, 119 -22

Terror, 24 , 31 , 39 ;

as masculine, 48 -49, 54 , 72 ;

pleasure as dependent on, 4 -5;

as ruling principle of sublime, 46 -47, 150 n. 5, 158 n. 26, 177 n. 4;

and transformation of opposites, 44 -45;

and Wharton's "terrible god of chance," 40 , 53 .

See also Unspeakable, the

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), 122 , 180 n. 29

Theory and sublime, 86 -90

Thompkins, Jane P., 39

Thornton, Lawrence: "The Awakening: A Political Romance," 159 n. 28

Time magazine: "On the Backs of Blacks" (Morrison), 122 , 177 n. 5

To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 139

Tom Jones (H. Fielding), 170 n. 11

Tomorrow Is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936

(Jones): "Kate Chopin: The Life Behind the Mask," 159 n. 28

Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present: "'Circling the Subject': History and Narrative in Toni Morrison's Beloved " (V. Smith), 180 n. 33, 183 n. 52, 184 n. 65

Toni Morrison: "A Different Remembering: Memory, History, and Meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved " (Mobley), 182 -83n. 52

Totem and Taboo (Freud), 138 Transcendence: desire and fulfillment, 37 -38;

in Good Morning, Midnight,100 -101;

sublime as progression toward, 32 -33

Transformation of opposites, 44 -45, 160 -61n. 5

Traumatic events, 136 ;

definitions of, 125 , 180 n. 36;

and effects on symbolic processes, 124 -25, 127 -29;

expression of, 129 -32;

historical gap in collective witness, 124 -25, 127 -29;

post-traumatic stress disorder, 125 , 137 -38;

recollections of, 125 -29, 137 -39;

relationship to language, 116 , 137 -38;

Sethe's back scars in Beloved,129 -32, 146 ;

as unspeakable, 125 -32

Treichler, Paula A.: "The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis," 159 n. 28

Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 1700. 11

Truth, search for, 85 -90, 117

Truth in Painting, The (Derrida), 114 , 117 , 178 n. 15

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: "Feminism and Deconstruction: ReConstructing the Elegy" (Schenck), 183 n. 59

Turkish Letters (Montagu), 173 n. 20

U

Ulysses (Joyce), 99 -100, 103

Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism: "Regarding Postmodernism: A Conversation with Fredric Jameson," 166 n. 36

Unspeakable, the, 37 -38, 105 , 111 ;

in Beloved,122 -32, 139 , 140 , 142 , 145 -47;

and sea metaphor, 12 , 27 , 33 -35;

slavery atrocities as, 119 -24;

traumatic events as, 125 -32.

See also Terror

V

Veeder, William: Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgeny, 174 n. 34

Veil metaphor: in Beloved,144 -45;

in Isis myth, 109 , 116 -19;

and slavery, 119 -22

Vendler, Helen, 151 -52n. 17

Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (Garber), 152 n. 21

Victimization, 94 , 176 n. 67;

of imagination, 71 , 75 ;

and power shift in Sappho's lyric, 20 , 21 -23;

of self, 94 , 100 , 101 ;

of women, 6 , 69 , 89 , 102.

See also Sacrifice; Scapegoating

Victim of Prejudice (Inchbald), 173 n. 20

Vindication of Natural Society (E. Burke), 51

Vindication of the Rights of Man (Wollstonecraft), 45 , 162 n. 10

Violence, 53 -55, 69 , 73 -75.

See also Misogyny

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings: "The Notion of Expenditure" (Bataille), 168 -69n. 47

W

Walker, Alice, 93

Washington, Mary Helen: "Teaching Black-Eyed Susans: An Approach to the Study of Black Women Writers, 175 n. 50

Watt, Ian, 171 -72n. 13;

Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding,170 -71n. 12

Webster's Third New International Dictionary: "frankenstein," 89

Weiskel, Thomas, 7 -9, 155 n. 11;

on Oedipus complex, 23 -25, 101 , 157 n. 18, 157 -58n. 19 , 176 n. 62;

on Peri

Hypsous , 18 ;

The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence,22 , 151 n. 12, 154 n. 8, 176 n. 62;

on transcendence, 26 , 32 -33, 37 -38, 149 -50n. 3, 154 n. 8

Wershoven, Carol: The Female Intruder in the Novels of Edith Wharton,165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41

Wharton, Edith: A Backward Glance,64 ;

The House of Mirth,6 , 55 -67;

and "terrible god of chance," 40 , 53

Wheeler, Otis B.: "The Five Awakenings of Edna Pontellier," 159 n. 28

White, Hayden: "Politics of Historical Interpretation: Discipline and DeSublimation," 161 -62n. 7

Williams, Raymond: Marxism and Literature,150 n. 6

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 34

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin: A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton, 165 -66n. 34, 167 n. 41;

"Thanatos and Eros," 159 n. 28

Wolf metaphor: in Good Morning, Midnight,93 , 94 -96, 102 ;

in Orlando: A Biography,93 -94

Wollstonecraft, Mary: Maria: On the Wrongs of Women,173 n. 20;

Vindication of the Rights of Man,45 , 162 n. 10

Women. See Feminine; Women's fiction

Women And Language in Literature and Society: "The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis" (Treichler), 159 n. 28

Women and Writing: "Women and Fiction" (Woolf), 91 , 175 n. 47

Women, Letters, and the Novel (Perry), 77 , 172 -73n. 20

Women's fiction, 5 -6, 173 n. 26;

acceptance of, 78 -79, 172 nn. 14, 15, 16, 17;

development of identity by, 170 -71n. 12;

female sacrifices in, 76 -79;

prestige of novel and progress of, 76 , 78 -79, 172 nn. 15, 16, 17;

and rise of sublime theory, 76 -79;

and women as consumers, 171 -72n. 13.

See also Novels

Women's Review of Books, The: "In the Realm of Responsibility: A Conversation with Toni Morrison" (Darling), 128 , 132

Women Writers: Their Contribution to the English Novel (MacCarthy), 172 n. 15

Wood, Neal, 45

Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One's Own,91 -92, 171 -72n. 13;

Orlando: A Biography,93 -94;

To the Lighthouse,139 ;

"Women and Fiction," 91 , 175 n. 47

Wordsworth, William, 151 -52n. 17;

"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," 8 ;

The Prelude, 8 -9, 20 -21, 23 -24;

and sea metaphor, 22 -23

Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, The: "An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs," 164 nn. 25, 27, 167 n. 42;

India writings by Burke, 163 n. 12;

"Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America," 51 -52

Y

Yaeger, Patricia, 31 ;

"'A Language Which Nobody Understood': Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening, " 33 -34, 35 ;

"Toward a Female Sublime," 149 -50n. 3

Yale French Studies,89

Yale Journal of Criticism: "Response" (Johnson), 169 n. 2;

"The Rise of the Sublime: Sacrifice and Misogyny in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics" (Freeman), 170 n. 11

Youngquist, Paul: "Frankenstein: The Mother, the Daughter, and the Monster," 174 n. 4

Z

Zizek, Slavoj: The Sublime Object of Ideology,166 n. 36