Humpty Dumpty, 3–5, 11, 26, 217, 225, 226, 248, 249

Hutcheon, Linda, 30 (n5), 96, 99, 175, 176, 178

identity, xii, xiii, 6, 8, 10, 20, 22, 23, 29 (n2, n4), 51, 64, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76, 78, 89, 91, 92, 96, 98, 122, 125, 126, 129–138, 147, 154, 155, 159, 164, 166, 173, 175, 186, 191, 220, 233, 241, 243–245, 249, 250, 256, 267, 268, 272

ideology, 8, 70, 91, 122, 259

intertextuality, 18, 43, 70, 74, 82, 148, 174–176, 179

Irigaray, Luce, 118, 124

Jaggi, Maya, 145, 147, 160 (n1, n2)

Jackson, Rosemary, 19, 25, 26, 56, 57, 222

Jefferies, Richard, 50

Jordan, Elaine, 86, 89, 94, 96, 115

Jordan, Neil, 44 (n4)

Joyce, James, 171

Jouissance, , 65, 79 (n4)

Kavanagh, Pat, 144

Kennedy, A. L., 144

Kenyon, Olga, 40

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 189, 229 (n3)

Kristeva, Julia, 12, 14, 64, 65, 89, 108, 111, 126, 267

Kundera, Milan, 167

Lacan, Jacques, xii, xiii, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25–27, 29 (n4), 31 (n7), 65, 68, 69, 72, 93, 94, 98, 112, 208, 259, 266

Lancelot, Sir, 15, 16, 17

language, xii, 4, 5, 8–11, 14, 16, 18, 69, 87, 94, 95, 99, 146, 223, 259, 266, 271

Lawrence, D. H., 85, 190

Lee, Tanith, 209

‘Little Red Riding Hood,’, 37, 61, 62, 105, 112, 127, 199, 230 (n9)

Locke, John, 7

Mahoney, Elizabeth, 50, 51, 123, 124

Mailer, Norman, 221

Malory, Thomas, 175, 249

Marshment, Margaret, 226, 227, 231 (n13)

Marvell, Andrew, 49

masculinity, 92, 125, 153, 261 (n1)

masquerade, 63, 64, 67, 78, 119, 131–134, 137

Meaney, Gerardine, 96

McEwan, Ian, 57

McGrath, Patrick, 57

McHale, Brian, 223

metamorphosis, xiii, 19–24, 28, 179

Milton, John, 18

Mills, Sara, 31 (n6), 171, 172

mirror, the, xiii, 10, 18, 19, 25, 26, 52, 69, 266

mise-en-abyme, , 159

Moers, Ellen, 57

multiplicity, xii, xiii, xiv, 4, 15, 19, 24, 25, 29 (n4), 43, 50, 51, 56, 74, 123, 150, 178, 201, 202, 204, 224, 228, 235, 241, 244, 245, 248–251, 254–260, 266, 268, 270, 271