Portrait of A Novel

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Author: MICHAEL GORRA
(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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