melancholy, 95–96, 109–110, 118, 121, 124, 142, 160, 161, 195, 201

melodrama, 48, 57, 63–66, 68, 157, 158, 164–173, 177–178, 182, 185, 189–190, 194, 241, 242–243, 247, 248

memory, 6, 86, 110, 124–125, 147, 153, 194, 202, 226, 249

metalepsis, 114, 116–117, 130, 136, 138

metaphor, 8, 14, 17, 77, 80, 85–86, 87, 90, 91, 93, 104, 107, 111, 112, 116, 127–128, 130, 149, 159, 165, 167–181, 184, 186–187, 188, 189, 190–192, 194, 215, 229, 232, 246, 248

metonymy, 24, 127–130, 135, 136, 144, 187, 193

‘middleness’, 107, 112, 122, 128–130, 132, 137, 144, 145, 168, 170, 171, 182, 241

Miles Franklin Award, 2, 203

Miller, Andrew H., 46

Miller, David, 153–154

Miller, Steven, 88–89, 94

Miller, Susan M., 162

Milton, John, 57–62, 68, 87, 125, 177–178, 180

Minden, Michael, 140

mirror, 140, 188, 194

misreading, 179, 184, 186–187, 193, 234

Mitchell, W.J.T., 215, 218, 220–221

‘mock heroic’, 135, 141

modernity, 1, 3, 10, 11, 13, 15–16, 31, 42, 59, 69, 74, 83, 87, 88, 104, 111, 112, 140, 149, 165–166, 172, 173–174, 177, 183, 188–189, 190, 197, 199–200, 203, 204, 206, 207, 211, 219, 224, 241, 244, 247

‘moral occult’, 57, 63, 68, 169, 174, 177

morality, 1, 2, 10, 28, 33, 34, 36–39, 43, 45–52, 57–59, 61–70, 74–77, 83, 85, 87–88, 99, 102, 103–104, 156–158, 165, 167, 169–170, 173–179, 183–184, 187–190, 197, 198, 241–243, 246–248

murder, 169, 171, 179, 183, 185, 188, 190, 235

Murdoch, Iris, 177

names 239n, 121, 131–134, 136, 138, 145, 158, 167, 173, 180, 188, 189, 190, 194, 229

Naples, 1, 6–7, 110, 112–113, 118–119, 132, 134, 136–137, 143–144, 147, 149, 241, 244, 245

Narcissus, 110, 138–140, 143, 189

narration, 2, 24–25, 89, 95, 100, 108, 118

narrative, 12–14, 18, 19–21, 23, 25–27, 33, 42, 51, 62–63, 67, 68, 74, 77, 79, 80, 82, 89–94, 97–99, 101–104, 105, 107, 108–113, 115, 117, 120, 122, 125–132, 134, 136–140, 124–146, 148–149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159–161, 163–166, 168174, 181, 183, 185, 187–189, 192–194, 201–206, 215–218, 222, 226, 233, 235, 237–238, 246, 248

Nashe, Thomas, 193

nation, 1–8, 10–18, 28, 32–34, 52–53, 55, 77, 82, 123, 180, 199, 235, 243, 245

National Book Award, 1

Neri, Algerina, 108, 111, 136

Newman, John Henry, 207–208, 225–226