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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10316-0 - The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel Maia Mcaleavey Index More information Index Ada Moore’s Story, 193 n13 Bathe, Anthony Adam, Robert, 52 Not Drowned, 71 Adams, James Eli, 214 n33 Beer, Gillian, 204 n25 adultery, bigamy compared to, 7 Belgravia (journal), 189 n24 Ainsworth, William Harrison Benjamin, Walter, 44, 45 Myddleton Pomfret, 3, 133, 205 n3 Bentham, Jeremy Anderson, Benedict, 131 Panopticon; or, the Inspection House, 139 Archer, Thomas Bickersteth, Edward Henry A Fool’s Paradise, 207 n3 “Yesterday, To-day, and Forever”, 73 Aristotle, 13, 190 n25 Bickersteth, Robert, ed. Armstrong, Nancy, 15, 55 The Recognition of Friends in Heaven, 72, 73, 90 Austen, Jane bigamy Northanger Abbey, 55 adultery compared to, 7 Austin, Alfred, 1, 9, 16, 18, 39, 69 class dynamics and, 8–9 Austin, J. L., 161, 162 detective fiction and, 17 Australia. See also New South Wales divorce compared to, 6, 8 Botany Bay penal colony proposal and, 139 domestic architecture reconfigured by, 49, 51, British print culture and, 131 53–54, 61–62, 212 n16 Fahnestock on bigamy fiction’s use of, 116 legal punishments for, 5 Great Expectations and, 116 “modern” subject emerging from, 16 John Caldigate and, 129 Bilby, Thomas Jude the Obscure and, 145, 158, 162, 165 “Heaven Anticipated”, 198 n8 Lady Audley’s Secret and, 2, 26, 129–131, 132 “Billy Taylor” (ballad), 41 A Righted Wrong and, 130–131 The Bitter Cry of Outcast London, 9 Said on Victorian fiction’s treatment of, 116, “Bluebeard” (fairy tale recorded by Charles 211 n54 Perrault), 50, 52–53 To the Bitter End and, 131 “Bonnie Barbara Allen” (ballad), 36 Book of Common Prayer, 76, 109, 159 47 Boucicault, Dion Bachelard, Gaston, 99 Bagehot, Walter, 24, 30–31 The Colleen Bawn, Bakhtin, Mikhail, 64, 207 n14 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth ballads. See also individual ballads Aurora Floyd “ ” 33 bigamous courtship plot in, 2, 19, 37, 99, broken token ballads, 145–157 165 conceived of as a pure relic of a national past, , 34–35 blotted plot in, 154 146 Mary Barton’s use of, 35–36 James on, ’“ ” 37 Lady Audley’s Secret compared to, 145–146 as novels unrecognized ancestors , 212 16 plot of bigamous return and, 2, 24, 29, 31–34, Mellish Park in, n 42–43 page metaphor in, 154–155 ’ ’ 37–45 Pendennis compared to, 149 Sylvia s Lovers use of, 145 Ballantyne, Tony, 206 n10 reviews of, 231 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10316-0 - The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel Maia Mcaleavey Index More information 232 Index bigamy plot as signature narrative strategy of, as sensation fiction, 54–55 3, 4 spouse-in-the-house plot in, 3, 18, 31, 47, 49, Birds of Prey, 17, 158, 204 n20 50, 54–61, 143, 144 The Cloven Foot, 206 n5 Thornfield’s architectural details in, 50, Cut by the County, 206 n5 55–61 Eliot and, 98, 100 “Mina Laury”, 51–52 Hardy and, 157–158 personal experience as a governess John Marchmont’s Legacy, 3, 48, 152, 160–161, of, 57 201 n42 Brontë, Emily Lady Audley’s Secret Wuthering Heights, 111 attempted murder in, 102, 115, 132 Brooks, Peter, 12, 13, 25, 61, 143, 146 Aurora Floyd compared to, 145–146 Broughton, Rhoda Australia in the plot of, 2, 26, 129–131, 132, Not Wisely, But Too Well, 16 133, 137 Brown, Julia Prewitt, 193 n9 blackmail in, 203 n14 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett blotted plot in, 153–154 Sonnets from the Portuguese, 77 class dynamics in, 8, 9, 30 Browning, Robert commercial success of, 145 “By the Fire-Side,” v India in the plot of, 137 The Ring and the Book, 76 loss of identity plot in, 136, 138, 210 n46 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Oliphant on, 31 Eugene Aram, 55 on name changes, 17 Burton, Richard plot of bigamous return in, 9, 26, 29, 30, 31, The City of the Saints, 185 n25 48–49, 99, 143–144, 145, 168, 206 n5 plot of colonial return in, 2, 18, 115, 117–118, 131 129–139 Carter, Paul, Chariton reviews of, 4, 28, 132, 145 24 “ fi ” 26 62 Chaereas and Callirhoe, as sensation ction , , Chase, Karen, 6, 63, 200 n37 system of clues in, 135–136, 137–138 32 134–135 Child, Francis, well at Audley Court in, Clifford, Lucy Yelverton bigamy trial and, 11 “ ” 85 4 Lost, Oliphant on, Clive, Caroline penny dreadfuls and, 11, 30 102 111 ’ 27–28 Paul Ferroll, , reviewers discussion of the oeuvre of, Why Paul Ferroll Killed His Wife, 192 n48 Sir Jasper’s Tenant, 205 n3 184 14 206 5 Cohen, Daniel, n Strangers and Pilgrims, n Cohen, Deborah, 193 n9 Taken at the Flood, 193 n13 186 44 189 8 115 Cohen, Margaret, n , n Thackeray on, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 75 To the Bitter End, 131 ’ 206 5 Collins, Wilkie Wyllard s Weird, n Man and Wife, 2, 170 Branks, William 203 16 73–74 79–81 86 The Moonstone, n Heaven Our Home, , , No Name, 37, 99 Brantlinger, Patrick, 121, 189 n24, 208 n28, 211 n54 11 116 on rise in literacy among lower classes, Bridge, Carl, The Two Destinies, 81 Brontë, Anne The Woman in White The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 3, 61–62, 71, 11 198 9 class dynamics in, n loss of identity plot in, 210 n46 Brontë, Charlotte as “sensation fiction”, 26, 62 Jane Eyre Conrad, Joseph “Bluebeard” fairy tale and, 50 209 38 56–58 65 Heart of Darkness, n class and status distinctions in, , on missing ships, 24 India and, 116 ’ 31 Conybeare, William Lewes s review of, Perversion, or, the Causes and Consequences of married name in, 210 n46 fi 205 3 54 In delity: A Tale for the Times, n Oliphant on, Corbett, Mary Jean, 204 n59 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10316-0 - The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel Maia Mcaleavey Index More information Index 233 Coventry Island (fictional setting in Thackeray’s Felix Holt, 98, 99 novels), 120, 121 Middlemarch Crabbe, George afterlife concerns in, 102–106 “The Parting Hour,” 188 n6 Casaubon’s codicil in, 106, 108, 109–110 “Ruth,” 188 n6 dead marriage plots in, 3, 18, 100–102, 112 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock honeymoon in, 3, 94–97 Hannah, 92–93, 201 n42 James’s review of, 108 Crawford, Iain, 89 magic lantern in, 96–97 Culler, Jonathan, 186 n41 plot of murderous remarriage and, 101–102 Cunningham, Allan remarriage in, 101–102, 106–109 The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern, reviews of, 102, 108 141–142 shadowed bigamy plot in, 71 Cvetkovich, Ann, 100, 187 n45 simultaneous remarriage plot and, 94 suttee reference in, 107 187 46 203 10 Physical Theory of Another Life (Taylor), 79 Dames, Nicholas, n , n ’ 99 Daniels, Stephen, 116 Reade s accusations of plagiarism against, Davidoff, Leonore, 194 n22 Romola 83 plot of the shammed marriage in, 2, 71, 98, De Quincey, Thomas, 99–100 Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill, 74–75, 92, 111 154 reviews of, 99–100 Derrida, Jacques, 47 Dickens, Charles Scenes of Clerical Life, “ ” 193 15 sensation fiction and, 97–100 Bluebeard story and, n 204 25 David Copperfield Williams on, n 103 104 Erickson, Arvel B., 186 n34 afterlife in, , 73 angelic bigamy plot in, 3, 18, 71–72, 81–87, evangelical millenarianism, 88–92, 93, 96, 101, 105 critics’ responses to Agnes character in, 89 Fahnestock, Jeanne, 6, 7, 116 graveyards in, 84, 85–86 Fanon, Frantz, 128 heavenly reunion and, 18, 86–87 Farrar, Dean remarriage in, 18, 74, 81–82, 84, 107, Eternal Hope, 73, 201 n53 205 n28 Fedorowich, Kent, 116 Great Expectations, 116, 211 n54 Fitzgerald, Percy Hogarth and, 200 n41 The Dear Girl, 54 Little Dorrit, 150–151, 166 Flint, Kate, 204 n24 The Old Curiosity Shop, 210 n50 Ford, Rowland Dingley, Robert, 212 n15 Lord Austin’s Bride, 193 n13 divorce Forster, E. M. bigamy compared to, 6–7, 8 on marriage as a finale, 170 bigamy plot following non-binding forms of, 3 A Passage to India, 209 n38 Gladstone on, 8 Foster, Shirley, 192 n48 in East Lynne, 63 Foucault, Michel Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 and, 6 Discipline and Punish, 139, 187 n47 Milton and, 8 Franklin, Jill, 52, 195 n36 semi-legal and informal means of, 5 Frazer, James, 110 Doheny, John, 215 n45 Freud, Sigmund, 110, 205 n29 Doyle, Arthur Conan Frost, Ginger, 183 n10, 184 n13, 185 n29 The Lost World, 117 Frye, Northrop, 190 n25 “The Musgrave Ritual,” 61 Garcha, Amanpal, 187 n46 Edwards, Amelia Gaskell, Elizabeth Barbara’s History, 94–95, 153, 193 n13 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 38 Eliot, George “The Manchester Marriage”, 192 n47 Braddon and, 98, 100 Mary Barton, 35–36 Daniel Deronda, 98, 100 Sylvia’s Lovers © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-10316-0 - The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel Maia Mcaleavey Index More information 234 Index ballads’ influence on, 37–45 sensation fiction and, 113, 157 ocean in, 40–41, 124 Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 92, plot of bigamous return in, 3, 17, 21, 23, 24, 158, 200 n8 26, 29, 37–45, 99 Two on a Tower, 48, 158, 205 n3 reviews of, 23, 24, 26, 28, 39 Under the Greenwood Tree, 158 Gaskell, William, 192 n48 The Woodlanders, 53 genre Harrison, Frederic, 73 dualistic conception of, 28 Harwood, John literary-critical tradition of defining, 30, 32 Lord Lynn’s Wife, 3 novel as, 45 heaven plot compared to, 12–13, 17, 28–29, 170 “The Blessed Damozel” on, 76–77 sensation fiction as, 12, 26–27 David Copperfield on, 18, 86–87 Gibbs, Frederick, 184 n14 East Lynne on, 75 Gifford, George evangelical millenarian notions of, 73 King’s Baynard, 4, 193 n13, 200 n40 Heaven Our Home on, 79–81, 86 Gilbert, Sandra, 55–56, 155 Kingsley on, 72, 79 Gillis, John, 5, 185 n29 Paradise Lost on, 77–79 Gilmartin, Sophie, 204 n26 Physical Theory of Another Life on, 79 Girard, René, 7 The Recognition of Friends in Heaven on, 90 Gladstone, William, 8 The Ring and the Book on, 76 Gravatt, Denise, 213 n27 Sadducees riddle and, 74, 76, 82, 85 Gray, George Zabriskie Swedenborg on, 81 Husband and Wife, or The Theory of Marriage, Tess of the D’Urbervilles on, 92 75 The Two Destinies on, 81 Greye, Armar Victorian notions of reunion in, 71–74 One Too Many, 204 n20 Henderson, Edith Gubar, Susan, 55–56, 155 A Human Spider, 203 n15 Guillén, Claudio, 28 Henderson, Ian, 131 Gullette, Margaret Morganroth, 92, 202 n59 Herbert, Christopher, 27, 137, 210 n44 “Hind Horn” (ballad), 33 6 Hodges, Sydney Hager, Kelly, 169 Haggard, H.