(Dickens), 216
Taylor, Bayard, 146
Temple, Catherine James, 49
Temple, Mary (Minny), 21–22, 108, 123, 315, 321
illness and death of, 27–29, 30, 46, 47, 260, 264
as original of Isabel Archer, 27, 46–50
Temple, Robert, 49
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy), 195
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 63, 99, 215, 234, 242, 244, 245, 247
theater:
in France, 287
HJ and, 170, 181, 286–92, 293, 294
as popular art, 288
in Scandinavia, 288
Time and Tide, 88
Tintoretto, 64, 137, 182
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 53, 307
Todorov, Tzvetan, 86, 159, 184
Tóibín, Colm, 91
Tolstoy, Leo, 113, 160, 252, 271, 303, 332
Torquay, 296
To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 236
Touchett, Daniel (char.), 3–4, 5–6, 49–50, 70, 73–74, 124, 125, 325
death of, 107–9, 111–12, 124, 134, 218, 241, 316–17
Touchett, Mrs. (char.), 4, 7–9, 46, 51–53, 69, 71, 73, 111, 114, 125, 134, 136, 159, 227, 260, 314
Touchett, Ralph (char.), 4, 6, 9–10, 46, 48, 50–51, 54, 70, 71, 107–8, 135, 136, 141, 142, 214, 221, 230, 321
death and funeral of, 324–26, 333
illness of, 3, 19, 27–28, 88, 124, 162, 166, 226–27, 238, 274–75, 313, 329
Isabel Archer as means to fulfill desires of, 67, 110–11, 162–64, 315–17
Isabel Archer’s inheritance and, 109–11, 162, 279, 316–17
lack of occupation of, 19, 78, 124
mutual dislike between Gilbert Osmond and, 134, 136, 156, 162–63, 164, 223, 228, 238, 316
Townsend, Morris (char.), 70
transcendentalism, 17, 265
“Transcendentalist, The” (Emerson), 114
Treacherous Years, The (Edel), 289
Treasure Island (Stevenson), 245, 248
Trilling, Lionel, 98
Trollope, Anthony, 61, 160, 219–20, 234, 245, 246
death of, 264, 267
HJ’s critique of, 265
Turgenev, Ivan, 38–39, 68, 91, 92, 96, 165, 197–98, 250, 315
characters of, xxiv, 39–40, 248
death of, 200, 249, 264
HJ on, 58, 200, 265–66
Turin, 42
Turner, J. M. W., 102
Twain, Mark, xix, 33, 36, 143, 210, 239
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss,” 34
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 25
Under Western Eyes (Conrad), 218
Union College, 14
United States, 304
business worshipped in, 15, 34
changes in, 306–7
divorce in, 273
estrangement of youth from, 31
exceptionalism of, 36, 114–15, 278
Gilded Age of, 33–34, 72, 251, 259, 306
history of, 36
HJ on life and identity of, 31, 32, 33, 34–37, 41–42, 53–54
HJ’s returns to, xv, xvii, 34, 80, 257–64, 305–8, 320–21
HJ’s works pirated in, 42
isolation of, 32
James family isolated from, 15–16
as novelists’ subject, 24
novel of manners in, 26
optimism in, 315
past and future in, 149–50
plutocracy of, 306
pragmatism in, 32
relationship of Europe to, 114–15, 126, 278, 305
writing about, 129
Urban VII, Pope, 144–45
utilitarianism, 315
Valéry, Paul, 88
Vanderbilt, Consuelo, 109
vaporettos, 167
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 250–51
Varieties of Religious Experience, The (William James), 13, 260, 320
Venetian Life (Howells), 23
Venice, 23, 60, 84, 85, 91, 126, 141
The Aspern Papers set in, 178–79
Constance Fenimore Woolson in, 181–82, 185
expatriates in, 167, 168–69
HJ in, xviii, xxiv, 28, 78, 127, 166–73, 174, 183–85, 187, 208, 214, 258
Michael Gorra in, 188
tourism in, 167, 188
The Wings of the Dove set in, 187
Verver, Maggie (char.), 90, 109, 237, 301–5, 327, 330
Viardot, Pauline, 39
Victoria, Crown-Princess of Prussia, 128
Victoria, Queen of England, 128, 194
Victorian novels:
business of, 203
decline of, 245–46
HJ’s critique of, 64, 74, 265
limits on autonomy in, 278
as “loose baggy monsters,” 64
marriage plots in, 68–69
multiple plots in, 25, 63–64, 215–17
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