Romantic, 178, 194nn6–7, 254, 286, 356

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 11, 172, 273, 276–278, 392, 418

Rushdie, Salman, 74, 81, 89

Said, Edward, 73–74, 78, 89

Savi, E. W., 128, 136–137, 144n4, 145n13, 147

scepticism, 4, 13, 202–203, 216, 322n4

Searle, John, 111–112, 124, 266, 268–270, 282n5, 283n8

secrecy, 19, 22, 24, 28, 44, 116, 286, 290, 395

self-knowledge, 11, 149–169

Shakespeare, William, 4, 106n3, 151, 173, 178, 184, 195n13, 237n9, 310–311, 322n6

Shelley, Mary, 172

Sherlock Holmes, 10, 109–122

Showalter, Elaine, 322n2, 325

Siddons, Henry, 91–93, 98, 108

silence, 22–24, 166, 207–210, 213–214, 223–224, 231, 256, 286, 293, 335, 356, 392, 394

Social Contract, The, 273–276, 278–279

Specters of Marx, 17, 55–56

Speech Acts in Literature, 261–273, 275, 277–280, 282nn1–2, 282n4, 283n14

Stevens, Wallace, 217, 219, 411

suicide, 41–42, 92–98, 102–103, 105, 106nn2–4, 133, 238n10, 307–309, 319–320, 328

symbolism, 207, 299

Taste for the Secret, A, 15, 17–18, 25, 295

Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 173

The Third Policeman, 210–211, 224, 238n14

Todorov, Tzvetan, 113, 124

Trollope, Anthony, 93, 95, 101, 106n2, 281

truth, 8, 10–11, 23, 32, 69, 104, 122, 201–202, 211, 233, 235, 248, 251, 265, 279, 286, 293, 301, 315, 336, 379

Ulysses, 178–180, 185, 194n9, 203, 206, 222, 226, 236n1

Victorian, 7, 10, 78, 92–94, 96–97, 99–100, 102, 104–105, 106n2, 122, 125–126, 135–136, 142, 329, 338, 371

Waste Land The, 178, 182, 184–187, 195n15

Way in the World A, 11, 67–85, 87n6

Wilde, Oscar, 164

Wordsworth, William, 168, 178, 254–255

Yeats, W. B., 201, 204–205, 216, 235, 237n9, 243