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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2021

Timothy Gao
Timothy Gao
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience
 , pp. 217 - 222
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021
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Index

Abercrombie, John, 148
actuality, 4, 6–7
affordance, 5, 137, 176
and disjunction, 109, 112
anthologies, 123–125
apRoberts, Ruth
on situation ethics, 88–89, 91
on the aesthetics of casuistry, 89–90
on Trollope’s characterisation, 96
architecture, imaginary, 31, 142–143, 164
Arthur, Anthony, 84–87
as imaginative-logical structure, 28
associationism (philosophy), 147
attachment (affect), 117–118, See also parasociality
Auerbach, Erich, 50, 166
authorial power, 37–40, 44–46, 48–49, 68
Auyoung, Elaine, 2, 5, 110
Azim, Firdous, 42
Balzac, Honoré de, 105, 144
Barter, Amy, 123–125, 138
Barthes, Roland
‘The Death of the Author’, 51
‘The Reality Effect’, 143–145, 170
belief, as literary response, 37, 74, 142, 148–150, 153–154, 178, See also double consciousness
Bentham, Jeremy, 28–29, 160
Berlant, Lauren, 117
Bodenheimer, Rosemary, 141
book history, 112–114
Brontë siblings, 25–27, 40–41, 47, 51, See also Brontë Charlotte
Brontë, Charlotte
critical reception of, 54, 56–57
‘Farewell to Angria’, 119–121, 135
identification with characters, 43–45, 54
Jane Eyre, 2, 14, 22, 27–28, 114
juvenilia, 25–26, 40–41, 43–44, 46–47, 51, 115, 142–143
recounts of play, 40–43, 51
reputation for disinterestedness and indulgence, 37, 56–58, 68
Shirley, 63
The Professor, See Professor The (main entry)
transition from juvenilia to novels, 25–26, 119–121
Villette, 22, 54, 114
Brooks, Peter, 3
Brown, Kate, 25, 66, 115
castle-building (idiom), 150, 163, 166–167
casuistry, 88, 96, 102
causation, narrative, 87, 91, 95, 102
Cave, Terence, 5
Cervantes, Miguel de, 6
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 104, 106
children
anxieties about imaginativeness, 148–150
capacity for imitation, 148–150
consistency in play, 33
inclination for participation, 49
possessiveness, 41, 117, See also developmental psychology
closure, in paracosmic play, 120
Cohen, David, 23–24, 33, See also Root-Bernstein, Michele
Cohn, Elisha, 114
Coleridge, Derwent, See Coleridge, Hartley
Coleridge, Hartley, 20, 82, 142
critical reception of, 148–149, 167
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 108
colonialism, 10, 136, 177
Crichton-Browne, James, 149–151
Dames, Nicholas
on contextualist literary studies and Hegel, 53–54
on The Newcomes, 127–129
on virtuality and literary studies, 10
Davis, Lennard, 5–7, 145–146, 168, 178
daydream, 2, 16, 32, 114, 120, 141, See also castle-building (idiom)
De Quincey, Thomas, 17–18, 21, 79–81, 117, 148
obligations to characters, 117
De Quincey, William, See De Quincey, Thomas
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe, 19, 24, 30
Deleuze, Gilles, 3
delusion,
history of medicine, 150–151
in Little Dorrit, 164 See also double consciousness; hallucination, as analogy
description
pleasures of, 144–146, 161–162
theory and purpose, 143–146
developmental psychology, 23–24
in the nineteenth century, 148–151, See also Crichton-Browne, James
Dickens, Charles
Bleak House, 15, 154
critical reception of, 7–8, 139–141
David Copperfield, 2, 26–27
Letters, 9
Little Dorrit, See Little Dorrit (main entry)
Master Humphrey’s Clock, 104–105, 118
Mudfog Papers, 9
The Old Curiosity Shop, 7–8, 140
diluted narrative, 114, 155
disenchantment, 28–29, 49
domestic fiction
as basis of realism, 36
as phantasmatic pleasure, 155, 161, 171
and utopian fiction, 30–31
as virtual game genre, 175
double consciousness, 7, 21, 37–38, 149, 170, 175–176
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 15, 81–82
Duma, Alexandre, 107–108
Eagleton, Terry, 62
ecphrasis, See hypotyposis
Eliot, George
Adam Bede, 48
Daniel Deronda, 108, 113–114
Middlemarch, 130, 132
Scenes of Clerical Life, 155
"Silly Novels by Lady Novelists", 36, 39
and sequels, 113–114
ethics of fiction, 44–46, 89–90, 176–178, See also casuistry
Fables (Aesop), 41
Felski, Rita, 1–2, 176
fictional facts
history and ubiquity, 18–19
ontological incompleteness, 79–81, 85–86
fictionality,
development of, 28–30
as distinguished from literariness, 8, 39, 107, 117, 119, 154, See also novel, history of
Fielding, Henry, 7, 9, 19
Flaubert, Gustave, 6, 50
Foucault, Michel, 161
Freud, Sigmund, 3
Furneaux, Holly, 113, 119
Gallagher, Catherine
‘fictionality in its infancy’, 16–17
on novel referentiality and non-referentiality, 5–7, 27
on the ambivalence of novel fictionality, 39
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Letters, 26, 108
The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 25–26, 35–36
Genette, Gérard, 49–50
genius, literary, 35
as contrasted with Genii, 37
as empirical ability, 35
as experiential ability, 153–154
Brontë on Thackeray, 40
historical relationship with madness, 140, 151–153
in children participating in paracosmic play, 21, 149
geography
history of, 24
imaginary, 14–15, 21, 26, 29–30, 142–143, 158
Gibson, William, 4
giftedness, See genius, literary; development psychology
Gissing, George, 161
Glen, Heather
on Jane Eyre, 56–57
on the Brontë juvenilia, 44–45
on The Professor, 58–59, 61–62
god-like author,
incarnation, 52
use of narrative miracles, 46–50 See also authorial power
Goodman, Lesley, 8
Greiner, Rae, 10
hallucination,
as analogy, 139–141, 153 See also perception, theories of
Hardy, Barbara, 162–163, 171
Hayot, Eric, 33
hermeneutics of suspicion, 2, 176, See also post-critical reading
Hillis Miller, Joseph
on Anthony Trollope’s play, 32
on Dickens and the prison, 158
on George Eliot and performative writing, 48
on Trollope’s characters, 93
history of science, 147–148
problems of pathologisation, 150–153
Holland, Henry, 148
homosociality, 123
hypotyposis, 144–145, 167, 170
improvisation
narrative, 71–73, 75, 87
poetic, 70–71
relationship to restriction, 76–79
improvvisatore, See improvisation, poetic
incompleteness, narrative, 81–82
intertextuality, 130, 133–134
ironic imagination, See double consciousness
Jacox, Francis
anxieties about play, 149
rethinking of play and genius, 154
James, Henry
‘Anthony Trollope’, 70
‘Daniel Deronda A Conversation’, 108
‘Honoré de Balzac’, 105
Roderick Hudson, 134
The Tragic Muse, 105, 126, 144
Jameson, Anna
‘A Revelation of Childhood’, 22
critical reception of, 167
on the improvvisatore, 82
labour
fictional, 64
intellectual and physical, 63–64
representations of, 62–64, 66–67
writing as, 36, 79
Lamb, Charles, 88
family history, 152
‘The Sanity of True Genius’, 152–153
law of non-contradiction, Aristotelian, 81
law of the excluded middle, Aristotelian, 81
Leavis, F. R.
on Little Dorrit, 161
on Thackeray, 110–111, 146
Leavis, Q. D.
on Jane Eyre and wish-fulfilment, 37, 56
on Little Dorrit, 161
Levine, Caroline, 134
on affordances, 5
on Bleak House and networks, 128–129, 134
Levine, George
on ‘another realism, 52
on anti-literary manifestos, 58, 113
on realist disenchantment, 49
on Thackeray and belatedness, 129
on Thackeray’s intertextuality, 132
on Trollope’s variations, 76
Lewes, George Henry
on Dickens and hallucination, 139–141, 151–152
on play and fiction, 3, 155–156
literality, 4–5, 15, 63–64, 164–167, 171, See also metaphor
literary form
as imaginative-logical structure, 9, 34, 175
as logical-imaginative structure, 9, 34, 175
imagined and impossible, 107–109
limits of, 112–114, 121
networks as, 128–130
literary value, 2, 178
of imaginative experience, 154
of ingenuity, 71–73, 87, 89–90
of juvenilia, 25–26
of vicariousness, 37, 44–46
of wallowing in fiction, 106, 108–109, See also fictionality, as distinguished from literariness
Little Dorrit (Dickens)
Amy’s fantasies, 169–171
Clennam’s room, 170
conflict between reality and fantasy, 164
imagined objects, 159–162, 168–169, 171–173
Mr Dorrit’s castle, 163
Mr Dorrit’s death, 164
narrative forecasting, 163, 171, 173
prisons and imprisonment, 160, 164, 171
Rigaud and Cavalletto, 158–162
thematic structure, 158–159, 163
Young John Chivery, 171–173
Lowe, Brigid, 10
on belief and imagining, 7, 37–38
on fiction’s sensuous imaginative function, 154–155
on fiction’s sensuous imaginative function, 142, 145
on subjective participation in literature, 2, 8
MacKeith, Stephen, See Cohen, David
MacNish, Robert, 148
Malkin, Benjamin Heath, 20See also paracosms, Allestone
Malkin, Thomas, See paracosms, Allestone
Malone, Catherine, 62
Marland, P. R., 152–153
marriage plot, 97–98, 129–132
metalepsis, 49–52, 74, 165
metaphor, 63, 164–167
Michie, Helena, 97
Miller, Andrew H., 89–90
Miller, D. A.
on the limits of the narratable, 113–114
on the novel’s logic of insufficiency, 82
on the novel’s need for restrictions, 78–79
miniaturisation, 8–9, 45–46, 156, 159–160, 170, 173, See also toys
More, Thomas, 29
Nabokov, Vladimir, 38, 50
narrative closure, 83, 107, 112
and the serial, 112–114
in paracosmic play, 114–116, See also paracosmic play, ending or ceasing
reader discontent with, 134
narrative detail, 144–145
narratology, 15, 81–82
New Formalism, 128
Newman, Neville, 63
non-fictional forms, 6, 19, 21, 27
novel, history of, 5–7, 15–20, 26–28
omnipotence, See authorial power
Otto, Peter, 4
paracosmic play
ending or ceasing, 117, 119–122
history and psychology of, 22–24, 116–118, 148–149
nineteenth-century responses to, 148–149
rules of, 18, 33, 77, 79–81
paracosms
Allestone, 20–21, 24, 29
Anna Jameson’s, See Jameson, Anna, ‘A Revelation of Childhood’
Ejuxria, See Coleridge, Hartley
Glasstown, Angria, Gondal, and Gaaldine, See Brontë, Charlotte, juvenilia
Gombroon and Tigrosylvania, See De Quincey, Thomas
the castle in the air, 31–33
parasociality, 7–8, 106, 118–119
patch notes (software), 174
Pavel, Thomas, 51
on dolls and Anna Karenina, 3
on the double consciousness of play, 42
Pearl, Jason, 29–30
perception, theories of, 147–148
persistence, virtual, 33, 106, 125
in paracosmic play, 116–117
Picker, John, 114
Plato, 6, 18
play
as analogy, 3, 42, 146–149, 153–154, 156, 178
definitions, 16
Plotz, John
on defining the virtual, 3–5
on iterativeness and seriality, 112
on the non-serial novel, 114
pornography, 66, 177–178
post-critical reading, 1–2, 176–178
proprioception, 159, 165–166, See also perception
pseudofactual posture, 27, 29, See also double consciousness
Rancière, Jacques, 50
Ratcliffe, Sophie, 84, 96, 103
reading, modes of, 1, 108–109
realism
and theology, 50–52
as social representation, 61
empiricism and imaginativeness, 36–37, 47–48, 102, 140
history of term, 140
self-consciousness, 58, 114
referentiality (and non-referentiality), 5–8, 21, 27–28, 39, 41–42, 64
robotics, 177, See also toys, Dickens’s automatons
Root-Bernstein, Michele
on paracosmic play and creativity, 24
on paracosmic play’s emotional significance, 117
on paracosmic play’s consistency, 32–33, 116
Rose, Jonathan, 15, 17, 27
Ruskin, John, 110, 134
Russell, David, 88
Ruth, Jennifer, 63–64, 67–68
Ryan, Marie-Laure, 163
Said, Edward, 136
Saler, Michael, 7
Sayers, Dorothy, 50
Schaeffer, Jean-Marie, 4
Scott, Walter, 19, 107
Second Life (game), 4
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
paranoid reading, 62, 86
reparative reading, 68
self-help, 60–61
Self-Help (Smiles), See Smiles, Samuel
self-narrativisation, 103
sequels and series, 104–106, 112–114
seriality, 103, 112–113
Shakespeare, William, 150, 167
Shuttleworth, Sally
on medical anxieties around paracosmic play, 116, 149
on the history of paracosmic play, 22–23
on The Professor, 61–62
on the rules of paracosmic play, 18
simulation, 8–10
situation ethics, See casuistry
Smiles, Samuel, 60–61, 65
sophistry, 89, 91, 99, 102, See also casuistry
Stannard, Henrietta (John Strange Winter), 109, 111–112
Stoehr, Taylor, 153, 165–167
suspension of disbelief, See double consciousness
Sussman, Matthew, 91–92, 97–98, 100
sustenance, 161–162, 173, See also Sedgwick, Eve Kosofky (reparative reading)
Sutherland, John, 87
Swift, Jonathan, 27–28
sympathy, 8–9
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 108, 110, 118
Thackeray, William
‘De Finibus’, 135–136
‘Proposals for a Continuation of Ivanhoe’, 107–108, 133
and Charterhouse School, 123, 138
and Fable-land, 138
attachment to characters, 105–106
critical reception of, 40
Pendennis, 15, 130, 132
relationship with characters, 108–109, 135–136
revisiting of characters, 105–106, 130, 133
The Newcomes, See The Newcomes (main entry)
Vanity Fair, 2, 130
The Newcomes (Thackeray)
Colonel Newcome’s history, 127, 131–132
Coventry Island, 136–137
Dobbin’s cameo, 130
ending, 135, 138
family tree, 126–127
Grey Friars, 123–125, 137
Mrs Mackenzie, 131
replaceability and irreplaceability of relationships, 129–130, 133
thematic structure, 127–128
The Professor (Brontë)
contrast to Jane Eyre, 58–59, 68
Crimsworth and Frances’s school, 66
Crimsworth and gifts, 60
ending, 66–67
individualism, 59–61
mise-en-abyme, 55–56
narrative erotics, 64–66
narrative frame, 59
narrative style, 58–60
preface, 58–59, 144
publication history, 58
realism, 68
relationship between the Crimsworth brothers, 59–60
representations of work, 62–63, 66–67
the ‘Hill of Difficulty’, 58–59, 65–66
Zoraide Reuter, 64–65
The Sims (game), 174–176
The Small House at Allington (Trollope)
Adolphus Crosbie, 99–102
dilemma of moving, 93
Joseph Cradell, 95
Lily’s dilemma, 95–96
Mrs Dale, 95
retracting of decisions, 93–94, 99–102
stubbornness of characters, 91–96
Tillotson, Geoffrey, 105–106
Tolkien, J. R. R., 38
Tolstoy, Leo, 3
toys
as analogy for realism, 3
Branwell Brontë’s soldiers, 40–42, 51
Dickens’s automatons, 8–9
George Henry Lewes’s wooden horse, 2–3, 175
Thackeray’s puppets, 2
The Sims as adult dollhouse, 174
Trilling, Lionel, 158–159
Trollope, Anthony
‘On English Novelists of the Present Day’, 31
An Autobiography, 2, 8, 31–33, 79, 85, 87, 96, 103
and Mrs Proudie, 8, 84–86
and narrative formulas, 73, 75–77
and prolifixity, 70
and psychological characterisation, 91–93
Barchester Towers, 73, 84
Can You Forgive Her?, 98–99
Chronicles of Barsetshire (series), 83, 121
compositional process, 75, 78–79, 86–87
critical reception of, 70, 75–76, 84, 87
Framley Parsonage, 75, 108
Orley Farm, 73, 87
revision process, 96–97, 103
revisiting of characters, 105
The Eustace Diamonds, 87, 90
The Last Chronicle of Barset, 84–85, 121, 135
The Prime Minister, 90
The Small House at Allington, See The Small House at Allington (main entry)
utopias, See geography, imaginary
Velleman, J. David, 5
vicarious reading, 2, 8, 146–147, 155, 178, See also post-critical reading
vicariousness, 8, See also wish-fulfilment
video gaming, See virtuality, digital
virtuality
definition, 3–5
digital, 6, 33, 142, 177, See also The Sims
social and political, 4
Wall, Stephen, 92, 95, 100
Walton, Kendall, 3
Watt, Ian, 19, 27
Wellesley, Arthur (Duke of Wellington), 40–42, 46, 51–52
Williams, William Smith, 40
Winnicott, Donald, 178
wish-fulfilment, 53, 56
Wood, James, 144
Zygmunt, Lawrence, 130–131

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