The Feminine Sublime "d0e9726"

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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,

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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.