New York, 1, 2, 5–6, 10, 11, 13, 18, 20, 35, 40, 95, 136, 153, 161, 166, 183, 192, 241

New Yorker, The 105n, 33, 38, 40, 73, 104, 107, 242, 250

New York Society Library, 2, 11

New Zealand, 5, 8, 54, 220, 238, 243, 250

nightingale, 123–126, 128, 150, 160

novella, 107–108, 121

Odyssey, The, 131

‘The Organization’, 47, 73, 76–87

Orwell, George , 57

Ovid, 138–139

Pahlavi regime, 49

paradox, 67–69, 74, 77, 79, 93, 104, 139, 141, 172, 237

paragone, 215

parergon, 215–216

perversity, 95, 110, 112, 129–130, 134, 142, 158, 237

photograph, 10, 22, 91–93, 101, 137

pilgrimage, 8, 221, 224, 225, 245

plot, 2, 102, 108, 127–129, 201, 204

poetry, 4, 5, 6, 8, 17, 49, 60–61, 74, 75, 85–88, 91–94, 114, 116, 120, 122, 125, 132, 137, 156, 157, 161, 162, 178, 180, 211, 219, 220, 241–244, 248

Pope, Alexander, 74–75

precocity, 19–20, 27, 133, 201–202, 207

Price, Byron, 32

private, 31–33, 38, 46–48, 52–53, 55–62, 68, 73, 77, 80, 86, 88, 94, 104, 174–175, 198, 214, 247

prolepsis, 13, 19, 25, 89, 157, 165, 170, 192, 194, 248

prosopopoeia, 116–117

prospect, prospective, 19, 24, 113, 118, 123, 125, 138, 166, 185, 186, 202, 206, 233

public, 3, 5, 14, 18, 31, 36–39, 42–46, 48–62, 65, 67–69, 73, 76–78, 85, 87, 88, 104, 147, 151, 160, 161, 175–177, 187, 198–199, 209, 210, 214, 219, 241–242, 244, 247–249

Rebecca, 25

Reed, Henry, 207–208, 244

Reformation, 58

Renaissance, 17, 47–48, 84, 143, 219

repetition, 40, 86, 104, 123, 129, 132, 135, 138, 147, 148–149, 159–160, 194, 227

retrospective, 19, 24, 28, 121, 127, 133, 136, 148, 162, 185, 188, 192, 202, 222, 226, 232, 245

revelation, 7, 19–20, 26, 27, 37, 47, 51, 99, 102, 128, 131, 154, 158, 164, 166, 168, 170–174, 178–179, 183, 185, 188, 190, 192, 194, 233, 241, 242, 245

rhetoric, 16, 32, 43, 50, 53, 56–57, 61–62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 74, 80, 85, 116, 157, 177, 178, 204, 219, 247

romance, 1, 7, 9, 13, 102, 107–114, 119, 123, 141, 149, 158, 201, 205, 213, 221, 237, 247, 248

Romanticism, 108, 110, 112–113, 115, 119, 120, 122–124, 128, 140, 142, 146, 159, 164, 248

Rosbottom, Ronald, 172

ruination, 112, 195

Said, Edward, 42

satire, 47, 73–75, 83, 85, 87, 247