Index Mental images: apparitions redescnbed as, 174-75, 180-81; Aristotle on, 133; in Christian devotional practices, 133; compared to magic-lantern images, 144; increasing importance in eighteenth century, 134-35; Locke on, 134; and theory of romantic imagination, 137 Mental infection See Folie a deux Mercuriality, 25-26, 43, 216n9 Mercury (Roman god of thieves), 24, 216n8 Mercury (element), 23, 25, 216n8 Metamorphoses (Ovid), 72, 225nlO Micrographia (Hooke), 25 Microscopes, 23 "Midnight Masquerade, The." See Masquerades Milbanke, Judith, 88 Miniatures, as commemorative objects, 236n28 Mirrors, and rise of modern individualism, 42 Miscellanies (Fielding), 77 Moberly, Charlotte Anne, 191-214passim, 192, 196; authorship of An Adventure revealed, 203, 247nl2; lesbianism imputed to, 205; probable authorship of "A Reverie," 247n7; relationship with Eleanor Jourdain, 192, 205-6, 210-11; susceptibility to paranormal experiences, 204—5 Moberly, Robert, 247n7 Mock heroic, Fielding's use of in The Female Husband, 74-75 Moll Flanders (Defoe), 46 Monk, Samuel Holt, 45 Montagu, Elizabeth, 89 Montagu, Mary Wortley, 93, 101, 229n46 Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de, 25 Montesquiou, Robert de, 205-6 "Moral and Philosophical Thermometer, The" (Lettsom), 38, 39 Moreland, Samuel, 23 Moritz (German conjurer), 150-51 Morland, Henry Robert, 89 "Mother Clap" (brothel-keeper), 91 Mourning, and romantic spectralization, 135-36 See also Memory; Mental Images "Mourning and Melancholia" (Freud), 235nl7 Muybridge, Eadweard, 154 Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe), 120-39 passim; as fantastic text, 125-29; and romantic sensibility, 125, 134-37; supernatural displaced in, 122-24; thanatopic imagery in, 130-31 Mystery of Versailles, The (Sturge-Whiting), 203 Nacht in Venedig, Eine (Strauss), 233n31 Naked masquerade, scheme for, 90, 91 Needham, Elizabeth, 89, 92 Neptune, 72, 225nlO Nerval, Gerard de, 159, 239n42 Newman, Ernest, 246n5 275 Newnham, William, 163, 183 Newstead Abbey (Irving), 158, 182-83 Nicholson, William, 150, 151 Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich, 171, 181-82, 241n51 Nielsen, Carl, 233n31 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 121, 177 Nitrous oxide, experiments with, 178-79 Nolhac, Pierre de, 198, 246n6 Northanger Abbey (Austen), 120 Motre-Danu de Paris (Hugo), 155 Novak, Max, 45 Nudity at masquerades, 89, 91 Nursemaids, as source of ghost belief, 244n23 Oberndorf, C P., 210, 213, 250n27 Odell, Thomas, 79 Old Maid, The (Singleton), 86 Olivier, Edith, 248nl4 Oilier, Charles, 163 "Ombres chinoises," 146 "On Male Hysteria" (Freud), 220n50 "On the Masquerades" (Pitt), 86, 100 Onanism See Masturbation Opernball, Der (Heuberger), 233n31 Optics, science of, 239n41 Ovid, 72, 225nlO Pamela See Richardson, Samuel, Pamela, Part 1; Richardson, Samuel, Pamela, Part Pantagruel (Rabelais), 115 Pantheon, masquerades held at, 86, 98 Parker, Gustavus, 25 Parker, Pauline, 252n40 Parker and Hulme murder case, 252n40 Parodia sacra, 89 Pasquin (Fielding), 79 Paton, Sir Joseph Noel, 178 Patrick, John, 24, 42-43, 217n21 Paulson, Ronald, 217n21 Pavilion de I'Echiquier, magic-lantern shows held at, 144, 146-48 Peau de chagrin, La (Balzac), 233n31 Pecheur d'islande (Loti), 239n41 Pelham, Miss, disguised as blackamoor, 89 "Pepper's Ghost," nineteenth-century magic-lantern illusion, 151, 153 Peregrine Pickle (Smollett), 96, 102 Peripateia, in Clarissa, 62 Petit Trianon, haunted by Marie Antoinette, 191-203 passim, 199 Petrarch, 32 Phantasmagoria, 17, 140-67 passim, 142, 145, 146, 147, 152; defined, 141; developed by Philipstal and others, 150-51; etymology of, 237n2; Gothic iconography associated with, 146-47, 149; invented and popularized by Robertson, 144-50; as metaphor for imagination 155-59, 165: as term for literary miscellany, 241n54 See also Apparitions; Magic lantern