Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel

Index

Index Abrams, M. H. Mirror and the Lamp, 29 Natural Supernaturalism, 33 action Borderers (Wordsworth), 31, 45 in Carlyle and Dickens, 91 versus character, 30, 45 critical, 114 Hamlet, 31, 40, 43, 46 Huckleberry Finn, 164 Little Dorrit, 40 versus reading (Lamb), 30 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 58, 60, 62–75, 155–68 allegorized, 164 American identity, icon of, 63 American Library Association, 64–65 Booth, Wayne, 72–73 civil rights movement appropriates, 64 compromises, 164 criticism of life, 71 criticism of other books, 162 critique of Christian church, 159–60, 166 as cultural property, 66 defensiveness of authorities on behalf of, 74 dialect, 160, 163 education policy and, 63 Ellison, Ralph, 63, 74 Fishkin, Shelley Fisher on, 70, 72 hypercanonization of, 65, 72 195 as idol of interracial goodwill, 64, 65, 72, 73 impressionist prose, 157 irony, 64, 159 Jim, 63, 161–63 language, 155, 157–58, 159–60, 161 minstrelsy, 62–63, 161–62 NAACP in Pennsylvania on, 63, 73 newspaper headline in Pennsylvania, 73 ‘‘nigger’’ as term, 63–6, 65, 161 ‘‘Nigger Jim,’’ wrongly called, 65 pattern of opposites, 159 plot, 165 protests against required status, 63– 65, 66, 72, 73 as quintessentially American, 70 racism, supposed weapon against, 63, 72 ‘‘Raftmen Episode,’’ 164–65 realism, 161, 162–63 reasons for wide classroom usage, 64 in schools, 63, 65, 72–73 sensitive spectator, 157 stylistic techniques, 157–60 sublimity, 165–66 as subversive, 71 title, 158 Trilling, Lionel, 71 voice in, 155 Was Huck Black? (Fishkin), 69 Aeneid (Virgil), 119 aesthetics, 36, 137, 153 196 Index Against Race (Gilroy), 62 Althusser, Louis, 113 American Renaissance (Matthiessen), 54 Anatomy of Criticism (Frye), 113 apocalypse apocalyptic lexical system, 84 Baudelaire, 139, 143, 147 Carlyle and Dickens, 93 appropriation Barkan on, 62 Baudelaire, 132, 153 versus expropriation, 62 and refunctioning, 59 Aristotle, 24, 123, 165 Arnold, Matthew, 28 literature as criticism of life, 71 on Keats, 11 Arnold, Thomas, 90 Arvin, Newton, 49, 55, 56 Auerbach, Erich, 54 Mimesis, 95 mixture of styles, 95–96, 103 realism, 163 author as category, 12, 28–29 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 54, 115 dissonance, 19 realism, 163 Balzac, Honoré de, Baudelaire and, 146, 150–51 Père Goriot, 43 Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans, 146 Barkan, Elazar, on cultural appropriation , 62 Barthes, Roland, 38, 94, 113 S/Z, 38 Baudelaire, Charles, 125–54 allegory, 132, 133, 138, 141, 142–43, 144, 145, 147, 153 ambivalence, 139, 152 art criticism, 128–29, 148–51 ‘‘The Artist’s Profession of Faith,’’ 135 Artificial Paradises, 129 Balzac and, 146, 150–51 on bourgeoisie, 59 classics and, 146 correspondences, 144 decomposition, 134–35, 150 Duval, Jeanne, 127, 128 ennui, 137, 142 extremes,  Flaubert, Gustave, 129 Les fleurs du mal, 125–54 the ‘‘I,’’ 133, 142 meaning of title, 132, 135, 141 replacement poems, 129 second edition, 128 ‘‘secret architecture,’’ 129 ‘‘Spleen and Ideal,’’ 136, 138–40 textual problems, 129–30 trial for indecency, 127 Gray, Thomas, 133 imagination, 134 impersonality, 152, 153 individual poems ‘‘The Abyss,’’ 139–40 ‘‘A Corpse,’’ 134–37, 136, 139, 143 ‘‘Correspondences,’’ 138, 139, 140 ‘‘Elevation,’’ 140–41, 142 ‘‘Jewels,’’ 135, 136, 139 ‘‘Little Old Women,’’ 145 ‘‘Obsession,’’ 138–39 ‘‘Paris Dream,’’ 139–40 ‘‘Parisian Paintings,’’ 144–48 ‘‘Seven Old Men,’’ 145 ‘‘Spleen’’ poems, 141–44, 147 ‘‘The Soul of Wine,’’ 135–36 ‘‘The Swan,’’ 144–48 ‘‘To the Reader,’’ 142, 145 ‘‘The Voyage,’’ 140 ‘‘A Voyage to Cythera,’’ 130–34, 135, 139, 140, 146 ‘‘The Wish for Nothingness,’’ 140–41 individuality, 149–54 Index 197 Intimate Journals, 138 irony, 133 journalism, 125, 137 life, 125–28 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 133 mad songs, 139 Madame Bovary, review of, 129 modernity, 125, 146 music criticism, 129 Nerval, Gérard de, 133 ‘‘The Painter of Modern Life,’’ 145, 148–49, 151 Paris, 126, 129, 133, 136, 137, 139, 143–47 path downward, 141 Petits poèmes en prose/Paris Spleen, 128, 139 Petrarch, 143 Poe, Edgar Allan, 127, 129, 133, 136 prostitution, 136–38, 146 Proust, Marcel, 145 romanticism, relations to, 130, 132– 33, 136, 137, 145, 148, 149 Saint-Beuve, Charles, 141, 143 ‘‘Salon of 1846,’’ 149 ‘‘Salon of 1859,’’ 134 self-criticism, 150–52 self-reading, 141 shock, 136, 137 sonnet form, 137 spleen, 137, 140, 141–42 syphilis, 128 transfer, 133–34, 141 translation(s), 129, 133, 141, 153 Virgil and, 146, 147 The Waste Land (Eliot), 145 Benjamin, Walter aesthetics versus politics, 25 aura, 25 civilization and barbarism...