A History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrative

by Arthur Ransome

And if we are not listeners only, but have ourselves something to fit with wings and to send out to find those men who will know the whispering sound of its flight and take it to themselves, how much do we not owe to this most manifold art of story-telling?

There is nothing that its pinions will not bear.

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INDEX

• Abercrombie, Lascelles, [263].
• Addison, Joseph, [110], [113] et seq.
• Ali Baba, [89].
• Amadis of Gaul, [52], [97].
• Anatomy of Melancholy, The, [125].
• Apuleius, [125].
• Arabian Nights, The, [46], [100], [101], [231].
• Arcadia, The Duchess of Pembroke's, [78], [83] et seq., [196].
• Arria Marcella, [283].
• Astrée, l', [85].
• Atala, [179] et seq.
• Aucassin and Nicolete, [11], [14], [15], [249], [305].
• Bacon, Sir Francis, [112].
• Balzac, Honoré de, [188], [192], [206], [212], [217] et seq., [238], [288], [290], [292], [293], [301], [307].
• Barye, Antoine Louis, [180], [202].
• Baudelaire, Charles, [239].
• Beardsley Aubrey, [88].
• Behn, Mrs. Aphra, [70], [139].
• Beowulf, [9].
• Bergers d'Arcadie, Les, [87].
• Bible, The, [128].
• Bickerstaff, Mr., [19], [113] et seq.
• Boccaccio, Giovanni, [19], [20] et seq., [56], [82], [85], [125], [155], [225], [306], [309].
• Boigne, Mme. de, [275].
• Boileau, Nicolas B.-Despreaux, [62].
• Borrow, George, [59].
• Botticelli, [25].
• Bouvard et Pécuchet, [296], [297], [298].
• Brantôme, [278].
• Browne, Sir Thomas, [252].
• Bunyan, John, [126] et seq., [140], [155], [257].
• Burleigh, Lord, [74].
• Burney, Fanny, [107], [112], [115], [119], [147] et seq.
• Burns, Robert, [193].
• Burton, Robert, [125], [132], [134].
• Byron, Lord, [176], [202].
• Caleb Williams, [244], [245].
• Canterbury Tales, The, [37] et seq.
• Captain Singleton, [58].
• Caractères, La Bruyère's, [110].
• Castle of Otranto, The, [189].
• Cellini, Benvenuto, [157].
• Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, Les, [46].
• Cervantes, Miguel de C. Saavedra, [32], [60], [61], [78], [82], [85], [86], [93] et seq., [126], [158], [162], [192], [257].
• Characters, Sir Thomas Overbury's, [107] et seq.
• Charlemagne, [8], [9], [32], [52].
• Chateaubriand, François René de, [175] et seq., [202], [208], [291], [301].
• Chatterton, Thomas, [190].
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, [19], [20], [21], [31] et seq., [107], [155], [156], [218], [306].
• Cinderella, [89].
• Citizen of the World, The, [148], [231].
• Clarissa Harlowe, [140] et seq.
• Clopinel, Jean, [21] et seq.
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [42].
• Colomba, [275].
• Comédie Humaine, La, [217] et seq., [292].
• Congreve, William, [274].
• Contes Drôlatiques, Les, [222].
• Corelli, Miss, [25].
• Cranford, [118], [168].
• Cromwell, Oliver, [126].
• Cromwell, [206].
• Dance of Death, The, [262].
• Dante, [155], [202].
• Decameron, The, [19], [37] et seq., [156].
• Defoe, Daniel, [114], [132] et seq., [140], [155].
• Delacroix, Eugène, [202].
• De Quincey, Thomas, [120].
• Desvergnes, [26].
• Diana, [85].
• Dickens, Charles, [58].
• Don Quixote, [10], [60], [82], [96] et seq., [158], [161], [257].
• Dream Children, [120].
• Dumas, Alexandre, [177], [188], [193], [201], [205], [206], [210] et seq., [261], [274].
• Earle, John, [109], [110], [111].
• Edgeworth, Maria, [192], [217].
• Éducation Sentimentale, l', [294].
• Edward III., [39].
• Elia, [258].
• Ellis, F. S., [22].
• Émaux et Camées, [238].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [259].
• Emma, [151].
• Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, An, [244].
• Ethan Brand, [263].
• Euclid, [144], [146], [253].
• Eugénie Grandet, [222], [225], [228].
• Euphues, [67], [70] et seq., [139].
• Evelina, [147] et seq., [168].
• Exemplary Novels, The, [46], [94], [99], [101], [102], [126].
• Facino Cane, [227].
• Faërie Queene, The, [126], [128], [132].
• Femme au Collier de Velours, La, [201].
• Ferdinand Count, Fathom, [165].
• Fiametta, [85].
• Fielding, Henry, [71], [96], [107], [119], [147], [150], [152], [156] et seq., [187], [227], [235], [257], [293].
• Figaro, Le, [238].
• Flaubert, Gustave, [46], [133], [184], [195], [226], [287] et seq., [307].
• Froissart, [191].
• Galatea, [62], [78], [85], [94], [95], [98], [103].
• Gautier, Théophile, [88], [177], [195], [202], [203], [205], [206], [208], [217], [221], [231] et seq., [251], [273], [277], [283], [288], [291], [307].
• Gavin, Miss J., [102].
• Gay, John, [42].
• Génie du Christianisme, Le, [182].
• Gesta Romanorum, The, [20], [34] et seq., [45], [128].
• Gil Blas, [61], [62], [63], [161].
• Godwin, William, [244] et seq.
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, [175], [232].
• Goldsmith, Oliver, [42], [118] et seq., [148], [231].
• Goya, Francisco Jose de G. y Lucientes, [262], [269].
• Grace Abounding, [130].
• Graham, R. B. Cunninghame, [121].
• Grammont Memoirs, The, [278].
• Greene, Robert, [67], [74], [126], [140].
• Griselda, [46].
• Guardian, The, [112].
• Guest, Lady Charlotte, [13].
• Hamilton, Anthony, [278].
• Hardyknute, The Ballad of, [191].
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [134], [245], [257] et seq., [274], [283], [307], [308].
• Hazlitt, William, [84], [111], [128], [193], [244], [245], [258], [273], [274], [278].
• Heptameron, The, [51].
• Hernani, [201], [205].
• Hérodias, [296].
• Histoire mes de Bêtes, l', [193].
• Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm, [201], [225].
• Hogarth, William, [156], [168].
• Holbein, Hans, [262].
• Holcroft, Thomas, [278].
• Homer, [208].
• Hosea, [128].
• House of the Seven Gables, The, [263].
• Hugo, Victor, [177], [183], [201], [203] et seq., [277], [295], [301].
• Humphry Clinker, [51], [117], [147], [166] et seq.
• Hunt, Leigh, [119].
• Ivanhoe, [196], [211].
• Jack Wilton, or The Unfortunate Traveller, [60], [76].
• John Arnolfini and his Wife, [41].
• Johnson, Samuel, [118], [144], [175].
• Jonathan Wild, [163] et seq.
• Jonson, Ben, [109].
• Joseph Andrews, [156] et seq.
• Journal of the Plague Year, A, [134].
• Julie, or La Nouvelle Héloïse, [147], [177].
• Keats, John, [42], [274], [310].
• King Lear, [228].
• Kit Kats, The, [115].
• La Bruyère, Jean de, [63], [110], [111].
• Lafontaine, Jean de, [42].
• Lamb, Charles, [120], [133], [258], [260].
• Lancret, Nicolas, [86].
• Lavengro, [58], [59].
• Lazarillo de Tormes, [51] et seq.
• Lenore, [251].
• Leonardo da Vinci, [243], [248].
• Le Sage, Alain René, [61] et seq., [160].
• Lewis, Matthew Gregory, [166].
• Lockhart, John Gibson, [101].
• Lodge, Thomas, [73] et seq., [126].
• Lorris, Guillaume de, [23].
• Love for Love, [149].
• Luna, H. de, [56].
• Lyly, John, [70] et seq., [90], [139], [280].
• Mabbe, James, [126].
• Mabinogion, The, [9], [11] et seq., [51], [73], [240].
• Macpherson, James, [191].
• Madame Bovary, [291] et seq.
• Mademoiselle de Maupin, [237].
• Mahomet, [240].
• Malory, Sir Thomas, [11], [61], [88].
• Manon Lescaut, [147].
• Margaret, Queen of Navarre, [51].
• Markheim, [263].
• Marot, Clément, [21], [156].
• Masefield, John, [61].
• Masque of the Red Death, The, [247].
• Mateo Falcone, [277].
• Maupassant, Guy de, [226], [235], [247], [291], [292], [298] et seq., [307].
• Mérimée, Prosper, [46], [195], [203], [205], [206], [273] et seq., [292], [301], [307].
• Messe de l'Athée, La, [225].
• Meung, Jean de, [21] et seq., [31].
• Microcosmography, A, [111].
• Milton, John, [42].
• Misérables, Les, [207].
• Modest Proposal, A, [277].
• Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de, [61].
• Monk and Witch, [262].
• Mona Lisa, [249], [298].
• Montaigne, Michel Eyquem Sieur de, [73], [112], [120], [208].
• Montemôr, Jorge de, [85].
• Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de, [208].
• Morte Amoureuse, La, [305], [307], [309].
• Morte Darthur, The, [8], [11], [32], [37], [51], [61], [240].
• Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist, [120].
• Murders in the Rue Morgue, The, [248].
• Mystery of Marie Roget, The, [248].
• Naples, Queen Joan of, [47].
• Nash, Thomas, [60], [76].
• Nevinson, H. W., [88].
• Newgate Calendar, The, [132].
• New Testament, The, [144].
• Northanger Abbey, [189].
• Northcote, James, [278].
• Notre Dame de Paris, [204], [207].
• Nouvelle Héloïse, La, or Julie, [147], [177].
• Odin, [8].
• Old Gentleman, The, [119].
• Old Lady, The, [120].
• Oliver Twist, [58].
• Ossian, [178], [179], [191].
• Oval Portrait, The, [250].
• Overbury, Sir Thomas, [108], [109], [110], [111].
• Pamela, [140] et seq., [157].
• Pandosto, [75], [76].
• Paradise Lost, [298].
• Pascal, [208].
• Pater, Walter, [121].
• Paynter's Pallace, [68].
• Peacock, Thomas Love, [196].
• Penseur, Le, [297].
• Pepys, Samuel, [129].
• Percy and Duglas, [84].
• Percy, Bishop, [191].
• Père Goriot, [228], [307].
• Petite Ficelle, La, [307], [310].
• Petite Pallace of Petite his Pleasure, A, [68] et seq.
• Petrarch, [38].
• Pettie, George, [68], [69], [126].
• Philosophy of Composition, The, [244], [246].
• Pilgrim's Progress, [126] et seq., [257].
• Pindar, [84].
• Pippin, [8].
• Pisan, Christine de, [25].
• Plea of Pan, The, [88].
• Poe, Edgar Allan, [46], [165], [195], [220], [243] et seq., [258], [259], [263], [281], [307].
• Poussin, Nicolas, [86], [87].
• Presse, La, [238].
• Prévost, l'Abbé, [147].
• Punch and Judy, [96].
• Purloined Letter, The, [248].
• Quentin Durward, [208].
• Rabelais, François, [25], [96], [170], [208].
• Radcliffe, Mrs., [166].
• Rappacini's Daughter, [265].
• Raven, The, [244], [253].
• Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, The, [191], [218].
• Rendezvous, Le, [299].
• René, [179].
• Reynard the Fox, [9], [54].
• Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [243].
• Richardson, Samuel, [71]; 139 et seq., [155], [156], [157], [158], [167], [235].
• Robert the Devil, The Life of, [19].
• Robinson Crusoe, [114], [132].
• Rob Roy, [192].
• Roderick Random, [58], [160] et seq.
• Rodin, Auguste, [297].
• Romance of the Rose, The, [19] et seq., [132].
• Roman Comique, Le, [158].
• Roman de la Momie, Le, [236].
• Romany Rye, The, [59].
• Ronsard, Pierre de, [21], [155], [158].
• Rosalynde, [73], [75], [77], [78].
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, [42], [44].
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques, [147], [175], [177], [178], [179], [180].
• Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin de, [208].
• St. Julien l'Hospitalier, [291], [296].
• Salammbo, [291], [294], [295], [298].
• Santayana, George, [239].
• Scarlatti, Alessandro, [196].
• Scarlet Letter, The, [258], [266].
• Scarron, Paul, [86], [170].
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, [25].
• Scott, Sir Walter, [42], [101], [187] et seq., [206], [208], [210], [211], [212], [217], [218], [219], [251].
• Selkirk, Alexander, [134].
• Sense and Sensibility, [150].
• Shakespeare, William, [78], [96], [126], [155], [202].
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [311].
• Sidney, Sir Philip, [78], [83] et seq., [95], [140], [175], [191], [233].
• Sir Charles Grandison, [140].
• Sir Roger de Coverley, [117] et seq.
• Smollett, Tobias, [58], [71], [107], [119], [147], [150], [152], [156] et seq., [187], [261], [293], [308].
• Somerset, The Countess of, [108].
• Somerset, The Earl of, [108].
• Song of Roland, The, [37].
• Spectator, The, [112], [116], [117], [142], [148], [168].
• Spenser, Edmund, [42], [126], [128].
• Steele, Sir Richard, [113] et seq., [142], [148].
• Stendhal, Henri Beyle who wrote as, [131], [261].
• Sterne, Laurence, [169], [170].
• Stevenson, Robert Louis, [243], [250].
• Summer is icumen in, [15].
• Swift, Dean, [113].
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles, [71].
• Table Talk, [258].
• Taine, Hippolyte, [23], [278].
• Tatler, The, [112], [113], [142], [148], [168].
• Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, [42].
• Tentation de Saint Antoine, La, [296], [297], [298].
• Theocritus, [81].
• Theophrastus, [63], [107], [110], [111].
• Thomson, Hugh, [118].
• Thoreau, Henry David, [258].
• Tolstoy, Leo, Count, [261].
• Tom Jones, [51], [58], [89], [144], [166], [257].
• Tristram Shandy, [169], [170].
• Troilus and Criseyd, [38], [47].
• Trois Contes, [295].
• Trois Mousquetaires, Les, [211], [212].
• Tulipe Noire, La, [211].
• Un Cœur Simple, [291], [295].
• Urfé, Honoré d', [85].
• Van Eyck, Jan and Hubert, [41], [42].
• Vathek, [231].
• Venus d'Ille, La, [283].
• Vicar of Wakefield, The, [86], [118], [119].
• Vingt Ans Après, [212].
• Virgil, [81], [86].
• Volsunga Saga, The, [11], [240].
• Voltaire, [202], [231], [274], [296], [297].
• Wagner, Wilhelm Richard, [196].
• Walpole, Horace, [189].
• Watteau Antoine, [61], [86].
• Waverley Novels, The, [42], [187] et seq., [209].
• Wilde, Oscar, [311].
• William Wilson, [250].
• Wordsworth, William, [42].
• Yeats, William Butler, [236].
• Young Goodman Brown, [267], [268].
• Zola, Emile, [226].

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Translation by Lady Charlotte Guest, 1838.