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Index

‘A’ (Zukofsky), 394	Address to the Whites	gender issues, 670–1,
Abbey, Edward, 618	(Boudinot), 157	696–8, 698–9
Abel (House Made of Dawn),	Adorno, Theodor, 742	Great Migration, 342, 530,
806–8	adultery: literary treatments,	531, 534
Abish, Walter, 619, 742	203–6	magazines, 351, 511
abolition movement, see	Adventures in the Alaskan	music, 523–4, 526, 530–1,
slavery: abolition and	Skin Trade (Hawkes),	669–70, 671
abolitionism	737	and the Revolution, 83–4
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner),	The Adventures of Augie	Tuskegee Institute, 349–50
448, 450	March (Bellow), 610–11	women’s rights, 323–4
Acoma people	The Adventures of Huckleberry	see also civil rights
and Ortiz, 802	Finn (Twain), 128,	movement; race issues
and Spaniards, 23	253–6	and relations; slavery
stories, 7, 152	and Salinger, 660	African Americans: conditions
Acosta, Oscar Zeta, 779	The Adventures of Tom	early 20th century, 342,
acting, 702, 712	Sawyer (Twain), 252–3	509–10
Action (Shepard), 715	‘Advice to a Prophet’	freed slaves, condition of,
Adams, Abigail, 79–80	(Wilbur), 581	247
Adams, Brooke, 318	Africa	postwar, 561
Adams, Henry, 79, 95,	Baraka on, 667	see also slavery
318–21, 336–7	bibliographies, 511	African Americans: literary
and Pynchon, 729	and Cullen, 527	treatments
Adams, John, 79–80, 90	as Eden, 85, 87	19th century, 118–19
Adams, John Quincy, 79,	Jordan on, 671	20th century, 460, 482,
102	and Kennedy, 688	547, 548–9
Adams, Léonie, 421, 422	and Knight, 671	bibliographies, 511
The Adding Machine (Rice),	and Malcolm X, 679	colonial writers, 52–3, 78
455–6	Wheatley on, 87	Southern regionalists,
Addison, Joseph, inﬂuence,	African Americans	267–8, 270, 271, 277
106	arrival in America, 32,	see also African Americans:
Address to the Negroe	55	writings; slavery: literary
(Hammon), 86	folklore, 514, 515, 693	treatments

Index

845

African Americans: writings	The Age of Innocence	All (Zukofsky), 393–4
18th century, 83–8	(Wharton), 356–8	All God’s Chillun (O’Neill),
19th century, 160–4, 176,	The Age of Reason (Paine),	459–60
181–94, 260, 278–81	75–6	‘All My Pretty Ones’ (Sexton),
19th-century women’s,	Agee, James, 347	572
309–12, 323–4	Agnes of Sorrento (Stowe),	All My Sons (Miller), 703
bibliographies, 511	200	All the King’s Men (Warren),
effect of white culture, 164	Agrarians, 466, 471, 490	474–5
ﬁrst detective novel, 512,	Ah, Wilderness (O’Neill), 460	All the Pretty Horses
755	Ahab, Captain (Moby-Dick),	(McCarthy), 618–19
ﬁrst novel, 184	111, 132, 209–10,	Allan, John, 119
ﬁrst novel with ﬁrst-person	211–12, 213	allegory
narrator, 354	Ai, 598–9	in Barth, 735
ﬁrst published novel by	Aiiieeee!, 792	in Cabell, 368–9
woman, 193–4	Aiken, Conrad, 396–7, 403	in Hawthorne, 201, 205
ﬁrst short story, 183	The Air-Conditioned	in Melville, 208–9
ﬁrst travel writing, 186	Nightmare (Miller), 658	reasons for prevalence,
journals, 104	‘Ajanta’ (Rukeyser), 425	34
publication, problems of,	Albee, Edward, 713–14	in Shepard, 715
86–7, 88	Alcott, Bronson, 131, 135,	Allen, James Lane, 267, 268
regionalist, 260	312	Allen, Paula Gunn, 805
slave narratives, 84–5, 86,	Alcott, Louisa M., 312–14	Allison, Dorothy, 626, 627
144–51, 181, 185–6	Alcuin (Brown), 96	allusion
slave writings, 62	Aldington, Richard, 388–9	in Eliot, 229, 397, 403–4
spirituals, 220–2	Alexander, Meena, 800	in Longfellow, 229
studies, 525	Alexei, Sherman, 805,	in Melville, 209–10, 212
African Americans: writings	815–17	in Pound, 400
of the 20th century	Algarin, Miguel, 772	almanacs
Black Arts movement,	Alger, Horatio, 248–9	Crockett Almanacs, 124,
664–8	Algren, Nelson, 605	125
crime novels and thrillers,	The Alhambra (Irving), 107	and Franklin, 71
755–6	alienation	The Alphabet (Silliman), 746
early, 342–3, 344, 348–55	1950s society, 556	Alphabetical Africa (Abish),
Harlem Renaissance and	alienation: literary treatments	742
beyond, 342–3, 509–37	Albee, 713–14	Alsea people, 13
postwar drama, 686–91	Anderson, 372–3	Alsop, George, 41
postwar poetry, 598,	beat poets, 641	alternative culture, see culture,
599–600	Bowles, 605	alternative
postwar prose, 674–86,	Didion, 628	Alther, Lisa, 741
691–701	Gardner, 739	Alvarez, Julia, 784
protest writing, 663–74	Kincaid, 701	Amazing Stories, 759
science ﬁction, 761–2	Momaday, 806–8	The Ambassadors (James),
slave narratives, modern	Okada, 794–5	295–6, 752
versions, 682, 685, 693,	Salinger, 659–61	The Amber Gods (Spofford),
699	Shepard, 715–17	314
After the Fall (Miller), 706	Sontag, 627–8	ambiguity, Welty on, 620–1
‘Aftermath’ (Longfellow),	Tuckerman, 232	America
229	Updike, 614–15	19th century, 100–1,
Agassiz, Louis, 165	Welch, 810	246–7

846

Index

20th century, 336–48,	‘America and I’ (Yezierska),	An American Dream (Mailer),
553–64	499–500	604
20th-century	America Hurrah (van Italie),	The American Dream (Albee),
disillusionment with,	712	713
298–9	America is in the Heart	The American Frugal
20th-century immigrants	(Bulosan), 505	Housewife (Child), 175
on, 499–500, 505	América’s Dream (Mohr), 783	American Hunger (Wright),
Adams on, 321, 336–7	The American (James), 290	534, 535
American identity, Roth	American Anti-Slavery	American Indian Stories
on, 614	Society, 178	(Bonnin), 326
Crèvecoeur on, 73–4	American Buffalo (Mamet),	American literature, histories
as Eden, 2–3, 6, 25–31,	718	of, 112, 121
57–8, 109–10	American character	American Mercury, 368
ethnic mix, 18th century,	development of, 55	American Pastoral (Roth),
55	early 20th century, 345–6	614
and Europe, literary	Franklin on, 69–70, 72	American Psycho (Ellis),
treatments of contrast,	Revolutionary period	758
283, 289–94, 295–6	writers on, 89, 92	American Review, 348
Franklin on, 55, 72	American Civil War	American Revolution, 72–3,
Freneau on, 88	and African Americans,	75, 76
Holocaust survivors on,	148, 163, 166	writings of the period,
765–7	end and effects, 245	68–99
James on, 290–4, 295–6	as the Fall, 257	The American Rhythm
Jefferson on, 76–7	Lincoln on Stowe as cause,	(Austin), 326
as land of opportunity, 72	196	‘The American Scholar’
Laviera on, 781	American Civil War: literary	(Emerson), 131, 133–4
Mailer on, 600–1	treatments	American Tabloid (Ellroy),
Martí on, 323	diaries, 173–5	754
Miller on, 658	novels, 184, 469–70, 546–9	An American Tragedy
Morrison on, 691	poetry, 233–4, 265–6	(Dreiser), 365, 367–8
Olson on, 631–2	stories, 286–7	Ammons, A. R., 577–8
as place of exile, 32, 57–8	The American Clock (Miller),	Anaya, Rudolfo A., 757,
as place to be civilized, 33	707	775–7
radicals on, 481–95	American dream	The Ancient Child
Reznikoff on, 396	and African Americans,	(Momaday), 806
Sandburg on, 479–80	162–3, 667	Ancient Evenings (Mailer),
Shepard on, 715–17	and capitalism, 248–9	604
Stein on being American,	American dream: literary	Anderson, Maxwell, 456
430–1	treatments	Anderson, Robert, 711
Steinbeck on, 498–9	Albee, 713	Anderson, Sherwood, 347,
Whitman on, 89, 232–7,	Brautigan, 661	368, 371–3, 488
481	Cheever, 605	Andrews, Bruce, 744, 745,
Wilson on, 717	Douglass, 148	746
Wolfe on, 495–7	Fitzgerald, 438–9	‘Anecdote of the Jar’
see also American	Mamet, 718	(Stevens), 415
character; American	Miller, 703–5, 707	Angelou, Maya, 664
dream; government,	Mohr, 783	Angels Fall (Wilson), 717
American; myths and	Warren, 472	Angle of Repose (Stegner),
legends: American	Westerns, 538–9	606–7

Index

847

animals	The Archbishop’s Calling	Asimov, Isaac, 760
Moore on, 419	(Miller), 706–7	‘Asphodel, That Greeny
in Native American stories,	Archer, Isabel (The Portrait	Flower’ (Williams),
5–6, 8, 10, 14–15	of a Lady), 291–4	408–9, 581
see also nature	Archer, Lew (Macdonald	The Assistant (Malamud),
‘Animals are Passing from	character), 752–3	609–10
our Lives’ (Levine),	Archer, Newland (The Age of	Astoria (Irving), 107
576–7	Innocence), 356–8	Astounding Science Fiction,
Anna Christie (O’Neill),	Arenas, Reinaldo, 786	759
459	Argosy, 539	‘At Melville’s Tomb’ (Crane),
Annie John (Kincaid), 701	Arias, Ron, 779	428
‘Annunciation’ (Le Sueur),	Ariel (Plath), 594–6	‘At the Bomb Testing Site’
493	Armies of the Night (Mailer),	(Stafford), 580
Another Country (Baldwin),	604	‘At the Fishhouses’ (Bishop),
678	Armstrong, Louis, 531	585
Anthology of Magazine Verse,	Armstrong, Samuel, 349	‘The Atlantic Cable’ (Ridge),
527	Army Life in a Black Regiment	153
Anthony, Susan B., 432	(Higginson), 166	Atlantic Monthly, 231, 239,
Anti-Slavery Catechism	Arnaz, Desi: literary	262, 282, 289
(Child), 175–6	treatments, 785	Auchincloss, Louis, 604–5
Antin, David, 772	Arnow, Harriette S., 490	Auden, W. H., 566, 591
Antin, Mary, 329	The Arrivistes (Simpson),	audience, see readers, authors’
‘Antique Harvesters’	565	relationship with
(Ransom), 468–9	‘Arrow’ (Dove), 672–3	Audubon (Warren), 472,
antiquity	art, and New York poets,	473
Pound’s use of, 397–9	645, 647, 648, 650–1	Augie March, The Adventures
see also classical writers;	Art Decoration Applied to	of (Bellow), 610–11
myths and legends	Furniture (Spofford),	‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 159	314	(Rich), 572
Apache people, 7, 13	‘The Art of Fiction’ (James),	Aupaumut, Hendrick, 81–2
Apess, William, 154	289, 290	Austen, Jane, inﬂuence, 293
apocalypse	Arthur Mervyn (Brown), 96,	Auster, Paul, 617
in early 20th-century works,	98	Austin, Mary, 326–7
347	Artiﬁce of Absorption	authority, resistance to
Merrill on, 653	(Bernstein), 747–8	in Native American
in Native American stories,	As I Lay Dying (Faulkner),	stories, 13–14
7	449, 450	in 1950s, 556
Pynchon on, 729	Asa Vickers (Lewis), 371	postwar novels, 654–63
and science ﬁction,	Ash Wednesday (Eliot), 402,	Twain on, 254
759–60, 761–2	405	Whitman on, 234
Appeal for the Indians (Child),	Ashbery, John, 645, 646–7,	see also beat movement;
176	649, 650–2, 742	protest; social
An Appeal in Favor of That	Ashbridge, Elizabeth, 65	convention and
Class of Americans	Asian Americans: writings	conditioning
Called Africans (Child),	early and mid-20th	autobiographies
175–6	century, 332–5, 502–5,	Adams, 318–21, 336
An Appeal to the Christian	559	Apess, 154–5
Women of the South	late 20th century, 600,	Asian American writers,
(Weld), 176–7	722–3, 757, 786–801	793–4, 797, 798

848

Index

Austin, 327	backwoods life: literary	Beadle, Erasmus, 537
Bonnin, 325–6	treatments, 95–6, 124–9	beat movement, 604, 641–5,
Bulosan, 505	‘Bad Times’ (Oppen), 394	654–8, 666
Eastman, 324	Bailey’s Café (Naylor), 698	Beattie, Ann, 626
Equiano, 84–5	Baker, George Peirce, 459	Beauvoir, Simone de, 536
ﬁrst Native American	Baker, Nicholson, 740	‘Because I could not stop for
female, 325–6	Bakutahl, 8–9	death’ (Dickinson), 240,
Foote, 309–10	Baldwin, James, 530, 676–8,	243
Garrison, 164–5	688	Because it is Bitter (Oates),
Hejinian, 744–5	Baldwin, Joseph Glover, 126	625
Hellman, 491	The Ballad of the Sad Café	Beckett, Samuel, 628, 686
James, 296	(McCullers), 624	Becky and Her Friends
McCarthy, 492	‘Balloon’ (Barthelme), 737	(Hinojosa), 562
Malcolm X, 679–80	Balm of Gilead (Wilson), 717	Beecher, Catharine, 103, 195
Parkman, 113–15	Bambara, Toni Cade, 663–4	Beecher, Lyman, 195
Thoreau, 138–42	Bancroft, George, 113	The Beet Queen (Erdrich), 811
Truth, 181	Banks, Russell, 619	Before Columbus
Washington, 349, 350	Baraka, Imamu Amiri (Leroi	Foundation, 681
Wong, 503	Jones), 568, 664–8, 681,	Behind a Mask (Alcott),
Wright, 533–5	688–9	312–13
see also diaries; slavery,	Barbary Shore (Mailer), 603	Behrman, S. W., 454–5
slave narratives	Barker, James Nelson, 453	Belasco, David, 454
Autobiography (Franklin),	Barlow, Joel, 63, 88, 89, 90–1	belief, see faith; religion
69–71	Barnes, Djuna, 432, 434–5	Bell, Christine, 786
The Autobiography of Alice B.	Barnes, Jake (The Sun Also	Bell, Madison Smartt, 617
Toklas (Stein), 432	Rises), 446–7	Bellamy, Edward, 285
The Autobiography of an	Barren Ground (Glasgow),	‘Belles Demoiselles Plantation’
Ex-Coloured Man	360	(Cable), 274
(Johnson), 352–3,	Barrio, Raymond, 774	Bellow, Saul, 610–13, 766
353–5	Barrio on the Edge (Morales),	Beloved (Morrison), 693–4,
The Autobiography of Miss	779	694–5
Jean Pittman (Gaines),	Barry, Philip, 454–5	Ben Hur (Wallace), 249
683	‘Bars Fight’ (Terry), 62, 86	Benchley, Robert, 544, 549
The Autocrat of the Breakfast	Barth, John, 729, 733–5, 741	Bend Sinister (Nabokov), 768
Table (Holmes), 230	Barth, Karl, 614	‘Beneath the Shadow of the
automatic writing, 601, 653,	Barthelme, David, 735–7	Freeway’ (Cervantes),
747	Barthelme, Frederick, 618	773
Awake and Sing! (Odets),	Barthes, Roland, 743	Benét, Stephen Vincent, 528
457, 458	baseball: literary treatments,	Benjamin, Walter, 549, 742
The Awakening (Chopin),	609, 617	Benn, Gottfried, 593
271–4	The Basic Training of Pavlo	Bennett, Gwendolyn, 525
The Awakening of Helen	Hummel (Rabe), 719	Beowulf, 739
Richie (Deland), 299	Bass, Rick, 618	bereavement: literary
Azarian (Spofford), 314	‘The Battle Hymn of the	treatments
	Republic’ (Howe), 224	Berrigan, 650
Babbitt (Lewis), 370	Battlepieces and Aspects of the	Bradstreet, 45–6
Baca, Jimmy Santiago,	War (Melville), 214	Ginsberg, 643–4
772	The Bay Psalm Book, 42–3	Taylor, 47–8
Bach, J. S., 394	Bayou Folk (Chopin), 270–1	see also death

Index

849

Berger, Thomas, 738–9	The Black Book, 693	blues, 511, 530–1, 669
Bernstein, Charles, 742, 743,	Black Boy (Wright), 533–4,	literary treatments, 671,
744, 745, 747–8	534–5	683–4, 697, 815, 816
Berrigan, Ted, 645, 649–50	‘The Black Christ’ (Cullen),	and Williams, 699
Berry, Walter, 355	527	The Bluest Eye (Morrison),
Berry, Wendell, 476	The Black Dahlia (Ellroy),	691–2
Berryman, John, 568, 573,	753–4	Bly, Robert, 569, 574, 578,
591–3	Black House Theatre, 688,	579–80
Berryman’s Sonnets	689	body, Olds on, 600
(Berryman), 591	black humour, 741	Bogan, Louise, 421–2, 665
Betts, Doris, 628	Black Mask, 368, 540–1	The Bondswoman’s Narrative
Beverley, Robert, II, 56–7	Black Mountain Review, 632	(Crafts), 187–92
Beyond Baroque, 772	Black Mountain writers,	Bonifacius; or, Essays to Do
Bibb, Henry, 185	629–37, 645–6, 665–6,	Good (Mather), 52
Bidart, Frank, 599, 600	673, 748	Bonnin, Gertrude, 325–6
Bierce, Ambrose, 250, 286–7	Black Muslim movement,	Bontemps, Arna, 510, 520–2
The Big Knife (Odets), 457	663, 679	The Book of Daniel
The Big Money (Dos Passos),	Black No More (Schuyler),	(Doctorow), 608
440, 441–2	512	Book of Life (Truth), 181,
The Big Nowhere (Ellroy),	black power, 558	182
753–4	‘The Black Spear’ (Hayden),	Book of My Nights (Lee), 600
‘Big Two-Hearted River’	528	Border Romances (Simms),
(Hemingway), 444	Black Thunder (Bontemps),	168–9
Bigger (Native Son), 535–6	520–2	Border trilogy (McCarthy),
The Biglow Papers (Lowell),	Black Tickets (Phillips), 626	618–19
231–2	The Black Woman, 663	The Bostonians (James), 294
Billy Bathgate (Doctorow),	Blackburn, Paul, 632–3	Boudinot, Elias, 157–8
608	The Blacker the Berry	Bourne, Randolph, 486–7,
Billy Budd (Melville), 214	(Thurman), 511	500
Biloxi Blues (Simon), 720	Blackfoot people, 9, 10	Bowers, Edgar, 507, 582
The Bingo Palace (Erdrich),	Blackwood’s Magazine, 112	Bowles, Paul, 605
811–12	Blake (Delany), 192–3	Box (Albee), 714
Bird, Robert Montgomery,	Blake, William, 236, 412,	‘Boy with His Hair Cut
112–13	642	Short’ (Rukeyser), 425
Birds of America (McCarthy),	Bless Me, Ultima (Anaya),	Boyle, Kay, 482
492	775–7	The Boys in the Band
Bishop, Elizabeth, 567,	The Blithedale Romance	(Crowley), 721
582–5, 587, 665	(Hawthorne), 135, 203	Bracebridge Hall (Irving), 107
Bishop, John Peale, 348,	Blood, Tin, Straw (Olds),	Bracey, Ishmon, 531
475–6	600	Brackenridge, Hugh Henry,
‘Bitches Don’t Wait’	Blood Meridian (McCarthy),	88, 95–6
(Mirikitani), 795	618–19	Brackett, Leigh, 752
‘Black Art’ (Baraka), 664,	The Bloodworth Orphans	Bradbury, Ray, 760–1
667	(Forrest), 686	Bradford, Elizabeth Sowle, 41
Black Arts movement, 529,	The Bloody Tenent of	Bradford, William, 32–4,
558, 664–8, 680	Persecution (Williams),	37–8, 39
Black Arts Repertory	39	Bradley, David, 685, 686
Theatre/School, 667	‘Blue Winds Dancing’	Bradstreet, Anne, 44–6
Black Arts West, 688	(Whitecloud), 506–7	and Berryman, 591–2

850

Index

Braithwaite, William Stanley,	Brooks, Van Wyck, 344	Bullock, William, 29
526–7	Broom, 518	Bulosan, Carl, 504–5
Brand, Max, 540	Brother Antoninus, see	Bumppo, Natty
A Brand Plucked from the	Everson, William	(Leatherstocking Tales),
Fire (Foote), 309–10	Broumas, Olga, 599, 600	108–11
Brando, Marlon, 556	Brown, Charles Brockden,	Buntline, Ned (Edward
Braque, Georges, 431	96–9	Judson), 538
Brautigan, Richard, 654, 661	Brown, Dee, 559	A Buried Child (Shepard),
Brazil (Updike), 615	Brown, Jake (Home to	716
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote),	Harlem), 513	Burke, Edmund, 75
724–5	Brown, John (abolitionist)	Burke, Fielding (Olive Tilford
‘Breaking Silence’	and abolition, 103, 143,	Dargan), 347
(Mirikitani), 795	162, 166	Burke, James Lee, 754
‘Breaking Tradition’	‘John Brown’s Body’, 224	Burns, John Horne, 601
(Mirikitani), 796	literary treatments, 143,	Burns, Robert, inﬂuence,
Brer Rabbit (Uncle Remus	214, 471	261
stories), 267–8	Brown, John (slave), 185	‘Burnt Norton’ (Eliot), 402
Brewster, Maude (The Sea-	Brown, Larry, 618, 726	Burroughs, William, 654,
Wolf ), 308	Brown, Norman O., 642	655–8
The Bridge (Crane), 347,	Brown, Sterling A., 525–6	literary treatments, 655–6
428–9	Brown, William Hill, 92–3	Bury My Heart at Wounded
A Bridge Between Us	Brown, William Wells, 184,	Knee (Brown), 559
(Shigekuni), 797	185–7, 310	Bush, George, 561–2
The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Brown Girl, Brownstones	Bush, George W., 561–2
(Wilder), 456	(Marshall), 700	Bush, Ishmael (The Prairie),
‘A Brief Sketch of the Life	Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,	110
and Character of David	389	Butler, Octavia, 761, 762
Walker’ (Garnet), 162	Brownson, Orestes, 135	Butler, Robert Olen, 618,
Bright Lights, Big City	Bryan, Mary E., 104	727
(McInerney), 617–18	Bryan, William Jennings, 480	Butler, Samuel, 63
Brighton Beach Memoirs	Bryant, William Cullen, 104,	Butor, Michel, 741, 742
(Simon), 720	226–7	By Lingual Wholes (Cruz),
British cultural inﬂuence,	Buchan, Major Lewis (The	781
88–9, 153	Fathers), 469–70	By the Light of My Father’s
on Bryant, 227	Buchanan, Daisy (The Great	Smile (Walker), 698
Emerson on, 134	Gatsby), 437, 438	‘By the road to the contagious
British imperialism	Buchanan, James: literary	hospital’ (Williams), 409
Franklin on, 72	treatments, 615	By the Waters of Manhattan
Freneau on, 88–9	Buchanan, Tom (The Great	(Reznikoff ), 396
Broadway, 701–2, 703, 712	Gatsby), 437, 438–9	Byrd, William, 55–60
Broadway Bound (Simon),	Buddhism, 640, 644–5, 654	Byron, Lord, 420
720	buffalo, in Native American
Broadway Journal, 121	stories, 6, 10, 14–15	Cabell, James Branch, 368–9
Brodkey, Harold, 619	‘Buffalo Bill’ (Buntline), 538	Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez,
Bromden (One Flew Over the	Bukowski, Charles, 654,	18, 24–5
Cuckoo’s Nest), 662	658–9	Cable, George Washington,
Brook Farm, 135	bullﬁghting, and Hemingway,	274–8
Brooks, Cleanth, 466	446, 447	Cabot Wright Begins (Purdy),
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 529–30	Bullins, Ed, 688–90	617

Index

851

Cade, Toni, see Bambara,	Dos Passos on, 440–2	Cassady, Neal, 654–5
Toni Cade	drama about, 454	Casteñeda, Pedro de, 19–20
Cahan, Abraham, 283, 328–9	Fern on factory girls,	Castillo, Ana, 779
Cain, James M., 543, 549	179–80	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Caldell, Ben, 688	Lanier on, 266–7	(Williams), 710
Caldwell, Erskine, 371, 490,	Larcom on textile mills,	The Catcher in the Rye
619	226	(Salinger), 556, 659–61
California: literary treatments,	Le Guin on, 761	Cathay (Pound), 399–400
385–7	Olson on, 631–2	Cather, Willa, 262, 264, 344,
Call Me Ishmael (Olson), 630	pro-slavers on, 169, 171,	355, 361–4
The Call of the Wild	172–3	Catholicism
(London), 305, 307	Rukeyser on, 425	Adams on, 318, 319–20
‘Call to Rebellion’ speech	Sinclair on, 329–32	literary treatments, 727
(Garnet), 162–3	Capote, Truman, 724–6	and Lowell, 588
Calvino, Italo, 742	captivity narratives	and O’Connor, 621–3
CAMBRIDGE M’ASS	Cabeza de Vaca, 24–5	Williams on, 51–2
(Grenier), 746	Rowlandson, 50–1	The Cavaliers of Virginia
campus life: literary	Smith, 29–31	(Caruthers), 172
treatments, 625, 727,	Williams, 51–2	Cavedweller (Allison), 627
735	Caputo, Philip, 728	Cawein, Madison, 299
Camus, Albert, 536, 756	Caras viejas y vina nuevo	‘The Celebrated Jumping
Can Such Things Be? (Bierce),	(Morales), 779	Frog of Calaveras
287	Carbone, Eddie (A View	County’ (Twain), 251
Cane (Toomer), 518–20	from the Bridge), 705	censorship: literary
The Cannibal (Hawkes), 737,	A Careful and Strict Enquiry	treatments, 760
738	into the Modern	The Centaur (Updike),
The Cannibal Galaxy (Ozick),	Prevailing Notions of	614–15
766–7	that Freedom of Will	‘Centennial for Whitman’
Cannibals All! (Fitzhugh),	(Edwards), 67	(Eberhart), 478
168	Carlyle, Thomas, 130	Century, 333
Cannibals and Missionaries	Carnegie, Andrew, 248, 349	Ceremonies (Hemphill), 674
(McCarthy), 492	Carraway, Nick (The Great	Ceremony (Silko), 808–9
Can’t Quit You Baby	Gatsby), 436–7, 438,	Cervantes, Lorna Dee, 772–3
(Douglas), 627	439	Cervantes, Miguel de,
‘A Canticle to the Waterbirds’	Carroll, Lewis, 625	inﬂuence, 95
(Everson), 638	cars, spread of, 338–9	Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung,
Cantos (Pound), 390, 392,	Carter, Jimmy, 561	798
393, 400–1	Carter, Landon, 58	The Chainbearer (Cooper),
Cantwell, Robert, 347	Carter, Nick (ﬁctional	112
Cao, Lan, 799–800	detective), 540	Challenge, 532
capitalism	Carter, Robert ‘King’, 57,	‘The Chambered Nautilus’
19th century, 248, 286	58	(Holmes), 230
20th century, 338, 341	Cartwright, Samuel, 165	Champlain, Samuel de,
20th-century radicals on,	Caruthers, William A.,	20–1
481–4, 489, 494	172	Chandler, Raymond, 537,
Anderson on, 372	Carver, Raymond, 726,	541, 542
Davis on factory life,	728–9	The Chaneysville Incident
219–20	Cary, Alice, 214, 216–17	(Bradley), 686
Dorn on, 635	Cass, Leroy, 531	Chang, Diana, 792

852

Index

change: literary treatments	Childhood’s End (Clarke),	The Christian Philosopher
Lawrence, 340	759–60	(Mather), 52
Stevens, 412	children and childbirth:	Christianity
Warren, 472–3	literary treatments	18th-century secularization,
see also social change	18th-century women’s	55–61
A Change of World (Rich),	poetry, 61, 62	early 19th century, 102
572	Le Sueur, 493	in Hispanic folklore, 158
The Changing Light at	Mohr, 783	inﬂuence on African
Sandover (Merrill), 581,	Nabokov, 770–1	American writings, 86,
653	Native American stories, 8	161
Changing Woman (Navajo	Plath, 581	inﬂuence on Native
character), 9	Ransom, 467–8	American writings, 154,
Channing, William, 152	Snodgrass, 571	155
Charlotte Temple (Rowson),	‘Children of Light’ (Lowell),	Paine on, 75–6
92, 93–4	588	and social change, 102–3,
Chase, Owen, 209	Children Sing in the Far West	164
Chateaubriand, Vicomte	(Austin), 326	Virgin of Guadalupe,
François René de, 215	The Children’s Hour	64–5, 159
‘Chaucer’ (Longfellow), 229	(Hellman), 490	Williams on, 39
Chavez, César, 559	children’s literature	see also Catholicism;
Chávez, Denise, 779	Alcott, 312	conversion to
Chayefsky, Paddy, 711	Bontemps, 520	Christianity; religion
Cheever, John, 605	colonial period, 43–4	Chu, Louis, 559, 787
Cherokee people, 102, 157–8	Hawthorne, 206	‘The Church Mouse’
stories, 152	late 19th century, 267–8	(Freeman), 264, 265
Cherokee Phoenix, 104, 157	magazines, 175, 176	Ciardi, John, 575, 576
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 171,	school readers, 249	cinema
173–5	Twain, 252–6	Stein on, 430
Chesnutt, Charles W.,	Childwold (Oates), 625	see also Hollywood
278–81, 283	Chillingworth, Roger (The	cinematic devices
Cheyenne people, 10, 11–12,	Scarlet Letter), 203, 204,	and Bernstein, 748
13	205–6	and Dos Passos, 441
Chicago	Chin, Frank, 792–3	and Rice, 455
19th-century development,	China Men (Kingston), 791	and Wilson, 717
246	The Chinaman Paciﬁc &	circumstance: literary
literary treatments, 327–8,	Frisco R.R. Co. (Chin),	treatments
331–2, 535–6	792–3	Dreiser, 364–5, 367–8
World’s Columbian	Chinese Americans, 100, 247,	James, 289, 291–4
Exposition (1893), 336	502	Stevens, 411–12
‘Chicago’ (Sandburg), 479	literary treatments, 258	‘Circumstance’ (Spofford),
Chicago Renaissance, 371–2,	writings, 332–5, 502–3,	314–15
479–81	722–3, 787–93	Cisneros, Sandra, 778–9
Chicano (Vãsquez), 779	Chinese poetry, inﬂuence on	Cities of the Plain (McCarthy),
Chicano/a writings, 771–80	Pound, 399–400	618–19
‘Chickamauga’ (Bierce),	Chippewa people, 811–13	city life: literary treatments
287	Chopin, Kate, 269, 270–4	Barthelme, 736
Chief Standing Bear, 509	choreopoems, 673	Brooks, 529–30
Child, David Lee, 175	Christ in Concrete (Di	Bullins, 689
Child, Lydia Maria, 175–6	Donato), 501–2	Cisneros, 778

Index

853

city life: literary treatments	Frost, 380, 381	Columbus, Christopher,
(cont’d)	Hawthorne, 205	1–4
crime novels, 540–2,	Melville, 210	literary treatments, 91,
753–6	Plath, 595	814–15
dispossession, 347	Pynchon, 730	‘La comadre Sebastiana’,
Dreiser, 365–6	Wright, 536	158–9
Fearing, 485	Cleaver, Eldridge, 663	Come Back, Little Sheba
Howells, 285	Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,	(Inge), 711
Odets, 458	see Twain, Mark	comedy and humour
Patchen, 486	Cleveland, Grover, 349–50	18th-century drama,
Sandburg, 479	The Cliff-Dwellers (Fuller),	91–2
Selby, 727	299	19th-century novels,
Wright, 535–6	Clifton, Lucille, 599–600,	250–7
Yezierska, 499–500	671	comedy and humour: 20th
see also New York City;	Clinton, Bill, 561	century
street life	Clock Without Hands	African American postwar
civil rights movement, 558,	(McCullers), 624	drama, 690
559–60, 561, 663	Close Range (Proulx), 629	African American postwar
leaders’ writings, 678–80	Clotel (Brown), 184, 186–7	novels, 681–2
literary treatments, 684,	Clothes for a Summer Hotel	drama, 454–5, 719–20
696	(Williams), 711	poetry, 423
and Smith, 490	Clovernook (Cary), 216–17	beat poetry, 643, 646
Clampitt, Amy, 597	Clurman, Harold, 456	immigrant novels, 763,
Clara Howard (Brown), 98	Cody, William F. (‘Buffalo’	769–70, 787, 789
Clarel (Melville), 208, 214	Bill), 538, 713, 757	mid-century, 544–6
Clari (Payne), 453	Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 782–3	Native American novels,
Clark, Kenneth, 584	Cogewea, the Half-Blood	810
Clark, Sappho (Contending	(Mourning Dove), 509	postmodern novels, 738,
Forces), 311–12	Cold War, 555–6	741
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg,	literary treatments, 735	postwar essays, 724
606	Coleman, Wanda, 673	postwar novels, 602, 605,
Clarke, Arthur C., 759–60	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,	609–13, 616–17
Clarke, Lewis, 185	106, 130, 135, 210, 412	postwar poetry, 650
Clarke, Mathew St Claire,	Collier’s, 330	postwar women’s novels,
124	The Colonel’s Dream	621–3
Clarke, Milton, 185	(Chesnutt), 281	see also satire; Southwest
classical writers, inﬂuence	colonization	humorists
on Evans, 61	English, 25–31	Comfort Woman (Keller),
on H. D., 391	French and Spanish, 18–25	797–8
on Longfellow, 228	groups disadvantaged by,	comic strips, 662
on Wheatley, 87	32	commodity culture: literary
on Wilder, 456	Puritan colonies, 32–7	treatments, 758
see also Virgil	The Color Purple (Walker),	see also consumerism;
Clay Walls (Ronyoung), 798	696–8	materialism
clearing vs. wilderness:	Colored American Magazine,	Common Sense (Paine), 75
literary treatments	310	‘A Communication to Nancy
Chopin, 272	Coltrane, John, 671–2	Cunard’ (Boyle), 482
Dickinson, 241	The Columbiad (Barlow), 63,	communion, Stevens on,
Ellison, 675	90–1	414–16

854

Index

Communism	The Conjure Woman	cooperative communities,
and Dos Passos, 442	(Chesnutt), 278–9	135, 203, 313
and Gold, 487–8	Connecticut Wits, 90	Coos people, 15
literary treatments, 675	A Connecticut Yankee in King	Coover, Robert, 617, 740–1
McCarthyism, 555–6	Arthur’s Court (Twain),	copyright laws, 104
and Oppen, 395	256	Copway, George, 155–6
and Wright, 534	The Connection (Gelber), 712	Copway’s American Indian,
see also House Un-	Conquistador (MacLeish),	156
American Activities	484	The Coquette (Foster), 92,
Committee; Marxism	Conrad, Joseph, 287, 303	94–5
community: literary	Conroy, Jack, 347, 520, 521	Coronado, Francisco
treatments	conscience, personal: literary	Vasquez de, 19–20
Baldwin, 677–8	treatments, 703, 705–7	The Corrector, 105
Blackburn, 633	conspiracy: literary	corridos, 321–2
Crane, 303, 305	treatments, 729, 732	corruption: literary
Heinlein, 759	conspiracy theory	treatments
Hurston, 514	in Miller, 705–6	crime novels, 751–6
McPherson, 685	in Puritan writings, 52	Davis, 220
Mori, 793	consumerism: literary	muckrakers, 330–2
Native American writers,	treatments	Corso, Gregory, 641, 645
802–17	DeLillo, 616–17	‘Corson’s Inlet’ (Ammons),
Rexroth, 483–4	Fitzgerald, 435	577
Viramontes, 780	Olson, 631–2	Cortez, Jayne, 772
Wilson, 717	Perelman, 746	Cosmopolitan, 282, 330
community vs. individualism	see also commodity	The Cotillion (Killens), 684
in Hawthorne, 204–5	culture; materialism	Cotton, John, 43, 52
Whitman on, 234–6	Contending Forces (Hopkins),	cotton industry, 101, 266
see also social convention	310, 311–12	The Country Girl (Odets),
and conditioning	‘Continent’s End’ (Jeffers),	457
The Company She Keeps	385	Country Music (Wright), 596
(McCarthy), 491	‘The Continuity’ (Blackburn),	The Country of the Pointed
Compson, Caddy (The	633	Firs (Jewett), 261–4
Sound and the Fury),	The Contrast (Tyler), 91–2	Coupland, Douglas, 758
450–2	conversion to Christianity	Couples (Updike), 614, 615
Compson brothers (The	of African Americans,	The Courtship of Miles
Sound and the Fury),	52–3	Standish (Longfellow),
451–2	as justiﬁcation of slavery,	228
Condon, Richard, 605	86	Covey, Edward, 146–7
A Confederacy of Dunces	of Native Americans,	Cowperwood, Frank (The
(Toole), 741	21–3, 31, 52–3	Financier), 366–7
The Confessions of Nat	conversion to Islam, 679	Coyote (Native American
Turner (Styron), 605–6,	Cook, Ebenezer, 63	character), 7, 12–14,
699	A Cool Million (West), 550	509, 805
The Conﬁdence-Man	Coolidge, Calvin, 546, 554	Coyote Stories (Mourning
(Melville), 214	Coolidge, Clark, 743	Dove), 509
‘The Congo’ (Lindsay),	Cooper, Anna Julia, 323–4	Cozzens, James Gould, 727
480	Cooper, Dennis, 772	Crabb, Jack (Little Big Man),
The Conjure Man Dies	Cooper, James Fenimore, 99,	738–9
(Fisher), 512, 755	107–12, 155	Craft, Ellen, 185, 187

Index

855

Craft, William, 185, 187	(Riding) Jackson on, 426	‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’
Crafts, Hannah, 187–92	Rukeyser on, 425	(Whitman), 235
Crane, Hart, 347, 373, 424,	Schwartz on, 575	Crossings (Hua), 559, 792
426–9, 470	Spicer on, 638–9	Crouse, Russel, 455
Crane, Helga (Quicksand),	Stafford on, 575	Crow (The Tooth of Crime),
516–17	Stein on, 429–30, 432	715–16
Crane, Stephen, 299–300,	Stevens on, 412–13	Crow Indians, 7
303–5	Wharton on, 356	Crowley, Mart, 721
Crashaw, William, 27	Wilbur on, 566–7	The Crucible (Miller), 705–6
Crawford, Cheryl, 456	Williams on, 390, 408	Crumbling Idols (Garland),
The Crayon Miscellany	Wolfe on, 723–4	297
(Irving), 107	Wright on, 537	Cruz, Victor Hernández,
creation	Zukofsky on, 393	781–2
in Miller, 706	Creek people, 260	Cruz-Smith, Martin, 805
in Native American	Creeley, Robert, 633–4, 635,	The Crying of Lot 49
stories, 4, 5, 6, 7–10	646	(Pynchon), 732
The Creation of the World	Creoles: literary treatments,	Cuba and Cuban Americans,
(Miller), 706	274–7	2
creative process	Crèvecoeur, Hector St Jean	writings, 784–6
Ashbery on, 651–2	de, 73–4	Cullen, Countee, 510, 512,
Barth on, 735	Crews, Harry, 618, 726	520, 527
Barthelme on, 736	The Cricket (Tuckerman),	culture
Cather on, 362	232	MacLeish on, 484–5
Ciardi on, 575	crime novels, 122, 540–2,	Pound on, 400–1
Crane on, 426, 427	751–7	culture, alternative, 560–1
cummings on, 422–3	ﬁrst African American,	African American drama,
Dugan on, 575	512, 755	688–90
Duncan on, 635–6	postmodern, 618, 738,	African American protest
Ellison on, 674–5	814–15	writing, 663–74
Faulkner on, 447–8	see also thrillers	language poetry, 742–9
Ferlinghetti on, 637	Crimes of the Heart (Henley),	newspapers, 680
Gardner on, 739	720	postwar novels, 654–63
Ginsberg on, 642, 643	The Crisis, 351, 510, 518, 525	theatre, 712–17
H. D. on, 391	Crisis papers (Paine), 75	culture, mass: literary
Hawkes on, 736	criticism: New Criticism,	treatments
Hawthorne on, 204	466–7, 471	Alexei, 815, 816–17
Hemingway on, 444–5	Criticism and Fiction	DeLillo, 616–17
Ignatow on, 575	(Howells), 282, 286	Dorn, 635
James on, 289, 290, 296	‘Critics’ (Fern), 179	Gardner, 739
language poets on, 742–9	Crockett, Davy, 124–5	Hagedorn, 799
Merrill on, 653	Croft, Sergeant (The Naked	Olson, 631–2
Moore on, 418	and the Dead), 602,	A Cumberland Vendetta
Nabokov on, 768–9	603	(Fox), 269
O’Hara on, 645–6	The Cross and the Arrow	Cummings, General (The
Olson on, 629–30	(Maltz), 489	Naked and the Dead),
Pound on, 388–90, 397,	Crossbloods (Vizenor),	602, 603
398	813–14	cummings, e. e., 393, 411,
Pynchon on, 729	The Crossing (McCarthy),	422–4
Rexroth on, 482–3	618–19	Cummins, Maria, 104

856

Index

Cunningham, J. V., 477	death: literary treatments	deconstruction, and
Curse of the Starving Class	Albee, 714	Pynchon, 731
(Shepard), 716	cummings, 424	The Decoration of Houses
	Dickinson, 240–3	(Wharton), 355
‘Daddy’ (Plath), 595–6	Eberhart, 478	Deephaven (Jewett), 262
Daisy Miller (James), 291	Edwards, 66	‘Deer Dancer’ (Harjo), 804
‘The Dalliance of Eagles’	Frost, 382–3	The Deer Park (Mailer), 603
(Whitman), 237	Ginsberg, 644–5	The Deerslayer (Cooper), 109
Daly, Carroll John, 540–1	Hemingway, 443, 444	Deland, Margaret, 299
Damballah (Wideman),	Hispanic folklore, 158–9	Delany, Martin, 192–3
685	Jeffers, 388	Delany, Samuel R., 761–2
The Damnation of Theron	Le Guin, 761	A Delicate Balance (Albee),
Ware (Frederic), 299	MacLeish, 484–5	714
dance, in musicals, 702	Native American stories, 8,	DeLillo, Don, 616–17
Dangling Man (Bellow), 610	15–16	Dell, Floyd, 371–2, 487
Dannay, Frederic, see Queen,	Plath, 594–6	Deloria, Vine, 805
Ellery	Poe, 120, 123	Delta Wedding (Welty), 620
Dargan, Olive Tilford, see	Ransom, 467–8	Delusions (Berryman), 593
Burke, Fielding	Sigourney, 224	democracy
‘The Dark of the Time’	Updike, 614–16	Cooper on, 111–12
(Le Sueur), 494	Whitman, 237	Lindsay on, 480
Darwinism, effects, 338, 341,	see also bereavement	Poe on, 118
465–6	Death and Fame (Ginsberg),	Sandburg on, 479–80
A Daughter of the Samurai	644–5	Democracy (Adams), 318
(Sugimoto), 503–4	‘A Death Bouquet’	Democracy in America (de
David Walker’s Appeal	(Whitman), 237	Tocqueville), 140
(Walker), 160–2	Death Comes for the	Depression, Great, 345–6
Davidson, Donald, 464,	Archbishop (Cather),	Depression, Great: literary
471	364	treatments
Davidson, Michael, 746	Death of a Salesman (Miller),	drama, 707, 708, 720
Davis, Jefferson, 173	703–5	novels, 497–9, 542–3, 621
Davis, Miles, 633	‘Death of an Infant’	poetry, 481–2, 576–7
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 215,	(Sigourney), 224	Derrida, Jacques, 743
219–20, 355	The Death of Bessie Smith	Descartes, René, 67, 68
Day, Clarence Shepard, 544	(Albee), 713	A Description of New England
Day by Day (Lowell), 590	The Death of Jim Loney	(Smith), 29, 31
The Day of Doom	(Welch), 810	Desire under the Elms
(Wigglesworth), 42	‘The Death of the Ball Turret	(O’Neill), 459, 460
The Day of the Locust (West),	Gunner’ (Jarrell), 565	‘Désirée’s Baby’ (Chopin), 271
347, 550, 552	‘The Death of the Hired	Dessa Rose (Williams), 699
Days without End (O’Neill),	Man’ (Frost), 381	detective magazines, 368, 750
460, 461	The Death of the Novel	detective stories and novels,
De Vries, Peter, 605	and Other Stories	122, 540–2, 750–1,
‘The Dead’ (Very), 230	(Sukenick), 740	752–7
The Dead Lecturer (Baraka),	Debs, Eugene, 341	ﬁrst African American,
666	Declaration of Independence,	512, 755
Dean, James, 556	72, 76, 80	postmodern, 618, 738,
The Dean’s December	Declaration of Sentiments,	814–15
(Bellow), 612	178	see also thrillers

Index

857

Dew, Thomas, 168, 170	dispossession: literary	Dove, Rita, 672
Dewey, John, 500	treatments, 347, 802–17	Dr Zay (Phelps), 315
Dhalgren (Delany), 761–2	Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee,	Drake, Joseph Rodman, 105
Di Donato, Pietro, 500–2	800	drama
Di Palma, Ray, 745, 747	The Divine Pilgrim (Aiken),	17th and 18th centuries,
Di Prima, Diane, 599	397	91–2, 453
The Dial, 131, 135–6, 140	divine providence	19th century, 294, 453–4
The Diamond Cutters (Rich),	and Douglass, 148	drama: 20th century
572	and Puritans, 33–6	African American, 511,
diaries	see also Christianity;	522, 665, 666, 667,
Byrd, 60	religion	686–91
Chesnut, 173–5	‘Divinely Superﬂuous	alternative theatre, 712–17
James (Alice), 288–9	Beauty’ (Jeffers), 384–5	Black Arts Repertory
Sewall, 54	‘Diving into the Wreck’	Theatre/School, 667
Winthrop, 36	(Rich), 572–3	Black House Theatre, 688,
Woolman, 65	‘Division of Estate’ (Horton),	689
see also travel writings	163–4	Broadway, 701–2, 703, 712
A Diary from Dixie (Chesnut),	divorce: literary treatments	comic, 545
173–5	Austin, 326	early, 299, 372, 454–63
Dick, Philip K., 761	Exley, 726–7	Federal Theatre Project,
Dickens, Charles, 104, 188	Howells, 283	348
Dickey, James, 476–7	Doctorow, E. L., 608–9	Group Theatre, 456–8
Dickinson, Edward, 238	Dodsworth (Lewis), 370–1	Method acting, 702
Dickinson, Emily, 237–44,	Dog Soldiers (Stone), 727	postwar, 650, 701–23
382	Dogeaters (Hagedorn), 799	Provincetown Players, 434,
on exultation and	The Dolphin (Lowell), 590	459, 488
madness, 662	Dominican Americans:	radicals, 490–1
and Higginson, 166	writings, 783–4	Spirit House, 667
inﬂuence, 303, 806	Donald Duk (Chin), 792–3	El Theatre Campesino,
and Lowell, 389	Donleavy, J. P., 741	559
Dictee (Cha), 798	Dooley monologues (Dunne),	‘The Dream’ (Bogan), 421
Didion, Joan, 628, 724	327–8, 330	The Dream Life of Balso Snell
dime novels, 249, 537–40	Doolittle, Hilda, see H. D.	(West), 549
Dimmesdale, Rev. Arthur	The Doorman (Arenas), 786	The Dream Songs (Berryman),
(The Scarlet Letter), 203,	Dorn, Ed, 633, 634–5	591, 592–3
204, 205	Dorris, Michael, 805	Dreamer (Johnson), 685
Dimple, Bill (The Contrast),	Dos Passos, John, 440–2	Dreaming in Cuban (Garcia),
91–2	Double Indemnity (Cain), 543	785–6
The Discovery and Conquest	Double Star (Heinlein), 759	‘Dreamland’ (Poe), 120
of Terra Florida	Douglas, Ellen, 626, 627	dreams (yearnings): literary
(Gentleman of Elvas),	Douglass, Frederick, 144–8,	treatments
24	151–2	Anderson, 372
Discrete Series (Oppen),	and abolitionism, 145,	Bellow, 612
394–5	147–8, 163, 165	Cuban writers, 785–6
The Disenchanted (Schulberg),	inﬂuence, 685	Dreiser, 364–5, 366, 367
439	and magazines, 104, 108	Fitzgerald, 435–40
Dispatches (Herr), 728	and Truth, 181	Hemingway, 447
The Dispossessed (Le Guin),	writings, 145–7, 148,	Inge, 711
761	184–6	Lewis, 370

858

Index

Miller, 703–5	Duncan, Robert, 633, 635–7,	Eden
O’Neill, 462	673, 748	Africa as, 85, 87
postwar novels, 617–18	Dune novels (Herbert), 760	America as, 2–3, 6, 25–31,
Roberts, 434	Dunlap, William, 453	57–8, 109–10
Robinson, 377–9	Dunne, Finlay Peter, 327–8,	Eden, Martin (Martin Eden),
Roth, 614	330	306
Stevens, 413	‘During the Passaic Strike of	Edgar Huntly (Brown), 96,
The Dreams of Two Yi-min	1926’ (Zukofsky), 394	97, 98
(Pai), 798	Dutchman (Baraka), 688–9	Edgerton, Clive, 727
Dred (Stowe), 199–200	duty: literary treatments,	education, Fuller on, 137
Dreiser, Theodore, 299–300,	357–8	‘The Education and Elevation
364–8	Duyckinck, Evert, 121	of the Colored Race’
drugs	Duyckinck, George, 121	(Harper), 183
and Burroughs, 656–7	Dwight, Timothy, 88, 89–90	The Education of Henry
and Dick, 761	Dynamo (O’Neill), 460	Adams (Adams), 318,
in Gelber’s drama, 712		319–20, 336
in Ginsberg’s poetry, 644	Earth Horizon (Adams), 327	Edwards, Jonathan, 55, 65–8,
Drums at Dusk (Bontemps),	Earthsea trilogy (Le Guin),	69, 89
520	761	Eggleston, Edward, 259
‘The Dry Salvages’ (Eliot), 403	The Easiest Way (Walter),	Einstein, Albert, 338
Dryden, John, 41, 63	453	The Einstein Intersection
Du Bois, W. E. B., 342, 348,	‘East Coker’ (Eliot), 402, 405	(Delany), 761
350–2, 510, 511	East Goes West (Kang), 504	Eisenhower, Dwight D., 554,
and Larsen, 516	East Village Other, 680	555, 556
on spirituals, 222	Eastlake, William, 606	Eisenstein, Sergei, 441
duality	Eastman, Charles Alexander,	Elbow Room (McPherson),
in Chopin, 272	323, 324–5	685
in Dickinson, 241	Eastman, Max, 487	The Elder’s People (Spofford),
and Eliot, 406	Eat a Bowl of Tea (Chu),	314
in Frost, 380, 381	559, 787	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid
in Hawthorne, 205	Eaton, Edith (Sui Sin Far),	Test (Wolfe), 663
and Mailer, 601, 604	332–5	Elegy for a Lady (Miller), 706
and Melville, 207–8, 210,	Eaton, Winnifred (Onoto	Elijah Muhammed, 663, 679
212	Watanna), 332–3	Eliot, John, 53, 116
in Pinsky, 598	Eberhart, Richard, 477, 478,	Eliot, T. S., 402–7
in Plath, 595	565, 643	and allusion, 229, 397,
and Whitman, 237	ecology and environment	403–4
Dubin’s Lives (Malamud), 609	Ammons on, 578	on Barnes, 434
Dubois, Blanche (A Streetcar	and Austin, 327	inﬂuence, 470, 484, 528,
Named Desire), 708–10,	Macdonald, 752	619
721	and Matthiessen, 727	on James, 291, 296
The Duck Variations (Mamet),	naturalist works, 300, 302,	on Modernism, 388
717–18	303, 307	and Objectivism, 393
Dugan, Alan, 574, 575, 576	see also nature	and Pound, 397
Dukesborough Tales	economy	‘Eliza Harris’ (Harper),
(Johnston), 268	19th century, 100–1, 246	183
Dulles, John Foster, 555	20th century, 337–9,	Elizabeth the Queen
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, 260,	345–6, 553–4, 557–8,	(Anderson), 456
261	561	Elkin, Stanley, 619, 741

Index

859

Ellis, Bret Easton, 617–18,	Puerto Rican mock, 780–1	The Executioner’s Song
758	science ﬁction as, 759	(Mailer), 604
Ellison, Ralph, 353, 530,	Westerns as, 538	existentialism
674–6	and Wolfe, 495–7	and Albee, 713
Ellroy, James, 753–4	‘Epistróphe’ (Baraka), 665	and Ashbery, 651
Elmslie, Kenward, 772	Equiano, Olaudah, 84–5, 86	and Mosley, 756
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,	Erdrich, Louise, 805, 811–13	and Percy, 617
130–5	erotic literature, see sex and	and Wright, 536
on America, 1	sexuality	Exley, Frederick, 726–7
on facts as symbols, 34	Esther (Adams), 318	Expensive People (Oates),
and Hawthorne, 203	‘Ethan Brand’ (Hawthorne),	624
and lectures, 104, 130, 233	202	‘Experience in the West’
Lowell on, 231	Ethan Frome (Wharton),	(Bishop), 476
on Poe, 121	356	experiments, literary
and Thoreau, 138, 139	Europe	African American protest
on Tuckerman, 232	20th-century literary	writing, 664–74
and Whitman, 233	migration to, 339–40	Arias, 779
The Emperor Jones (O’Neill),	and America, literary	Ashbery, 652
460	treatments of contrast,	Barrio, 774
The End of the Road (Barth),	283, 289–94, 295–6	beat poets, 641–5
733, 734	cultural inﬂuence, 228–9,	Black Mountain poets,
‘Endicott and the Red Cross’	290	630, 632, 633, 634
(Hawthorne), 203	immigrant writings,	Cha, 798
Enemies (Singer), 763–4	762–71	Crane, 304
England	The Europe of Trusts (Howe),	Cruz, 781
colonization, 25–37	744	Doctorow, 608–9
see also British cultural	The Europeans (James),	Ellison, 674–5
inﬂuence; British	290–1	James, 288
imperialism	Evangeline (Longfellow), 228	Kennedy, 688
Enlightenment, inﬂuence, 55,	Evans, Augusta Jane, 250	Melville, 209–10
69–70, 72	Evans, Hiram Wesley, 344	Oates, 624–5
‘enter no (silence is the	Evans, Mari, 668, 669, 671	O’Hara, 648
blood whose ﬂesh’	Evans, Nathaniel, 61	Patchen, 485–6
(cummings), 424	Evening Thought (Hammon),	postwar drama, 712–17
‘Entropy’ (Pynchon), 729–30	86	postwar novels, 654–8
environment, see ecology and	Everhard, Ernest (The Iron	San Francisco Renaissance,
environment; nature	Heel), 306	637–40
The Epic of the Wheat	Everson, William (Brother	Stein, 429–32
(Norris), 301–3	Antoninus), 638	Toomer, 518–20
epics	Everything That Rises Must	Viramontes, 779–80
17th century, 23	Converge (O’Connor),	Whitman, 236
18th century, 63, 90–1	622–3	see also Modernism;
19th century, 108–11,	evil	postmodernism
236–7	Emerson on, 133	exploration
20th century, 301–3, 480,	Hawthorne on, 206	border surveys, 58–9
590, 631–2, 635, 653	Le Guin on, 761	English, 29–31
Mather, 53–4	Macdonald on, 752–3	Spanish and French,
Modernist, 391–2, 396,	O’Connor on, 621–3	18–25
400–1, 409–11, 428–9	pro-slavers on, 171	see also travel writings

860

Index

expressionism, 455–6, 460	Thompson, 751	Fearing, Kenneth, 482, 485
and Kennedy, 688	Tyler, 625–6	‘February in Sidney’
and postwar drama, 703,	Viramontes, 780	(Komunyakaa), 673
704	Walker, 696	Federal Theatre Project, 348
and Shepard, 715	Welty, 620–1	Federal Writers’ Project, 525,
The Exterminator (Burroughs	Williams, 707–10	526, 528
and Gysin), 657, 658	The Family Muskat (Singer),	Federalist papers (Hamilton,
‘The Eye’ (Jeffers), 387–8	763	Jay and Madison), 96
	A Fan’s Notes (Exley), 726–7	Federman, Raymond, 741
A Fable (Faulkner), 449	Fanshawe (Hawthorne), 202	The Feminine Mystique
A Fable for Critics (Lowell),	‘The Farewell of a Virginia	(Friedan), 559
231	Slave Mother’	feminism
Face of an Angel (Chávez),	(Whittier), 167	18th century, 81
779	A Farewell to Arms	19th century, 103, 104–5,
factories: literary treatments,	(Hemingway), 444, 445	136–8, 175–82, 183–4,
179–80, 219–20, 226	‘The Farmer’s Wife’ (Sexton),	316–18
facts	572	Declaration of Sentiments,
as basis for novels, 93, 95,	farming	178
98	Jefferson on, 77	feminism: 20th century
importance to Puritans,	Lanier on, 266–7	and crime novels, 754–5
33, 34	Markham on, 298	and Mailer, 604
spiritual signiﬁcance for	see also pastoral themes	Native American writers,
Emerson, 132	and pastoralism; rural	805
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury),	communities	postwar, 559
760	Farnell, James T., 490	postwar literature, 572–3,
faith	Farrago, Captain John	598, 628, 741
Albee on, 714	(Modern Chivalry),	and science ﬁction, 761,
Melville on, 211–12, 213,	95–6	762
214	The Farthest Shore (Le Guin),	and Walker, 695–6
Naylor on, 698	761	see also gender issues;
A Faithful Narrative of the	fascism	women
Surprising Work of God	early 20th-century artistic	‘A Fence’ (Sandburg), 479
(Edwards), 66	attitude to, 371	Fences (Wilson), 690
‘The Fall of the House of	Fitzgerald on, 437	Fenollosa, Ernest, 399
Usher’ (Poe), 118,	naturalist tendencies to,	Fer-de-Lance (Stout), 752
122–3	302, 306	Fergusson, Elizabeth Graeme
family life: literary	and Pound, 347, 401	(‘Laura’), 61–2
treatments	fate vs. free will, in James,	Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 637,
Albee, 713	289, 291–4	641
Baldwin, 677–8	The Father (Olds), 600	Fern, Fanny (Sarah Payson
Cofer, 782–3	The Fathers (Tate), 466,	Willis), 178–81
Faulkner, 450–2	469–70	Fernandez, Roberto, 786
Jen, 789	Faulkner, William, 345, 347,	‘Ferry’ (Zukofsky), 393, 394
Kincaid, 701	447–53	Field, Joseph M., 125
O’Neill, 463	and Anderson, 371, 373	Fields, Annie, 262
Proulx, 629	on Hollywood, 549	Fields, James T., 262
Shepard, 716	inﬂuence, 605, 619, 806	Fierstein, Harvey, 721–2
Smiley, 628–9	precursors, 176	Fifth Chinese Daughter
Tan, 788–9	Fauset, Jessie, 510, 525	(Wong), 503

Index

861

5th of July (Wilson), 717	The Floating World	The Fountain (O’Neill), 460
Filipino immigrants, 503	(Kadohata), 797	Four Quartets (Eliot), 402,
writings, 504, 798–9	Flowering Judas (Porter), 432	403, 405
‘Filling Station’ (Bishop), 584	The Flowering of the Rod	‘The Fox’ (Patchen), 486
The Financier (Dreiser),	(H. D.), 391–2	Fox, John, Jr., 269
366–7	F.O.B. (Hwang), 722	France
Fink, Mike, 124, 125	folklore	explorers, 20–2
Finn, Huckleberry	African American, 514,	French attempts to convert
(The Adventures of	515, 693	Puritans, 51–2
Huckleberry Finn),	Hispanic Southwest,	Frank, Waldo, 518
253–6	158–60	Franklin, Benjamin, 69–73
Fire!!, 511, 525	Sioux, 324	on America, 55, 72
Fire in the Flint (White), 512	see also myths and legends	Evans’s poem on, 61
The Fire Next Time (Baldwin),	folksongs, 222–4	inﬂuence on Washington,
678	Fool for Love (Shepard), 716,	350
Fire Sermon (Morris), 607–8	717	inﬂuences on, 52
Firehouse Theatre, 712	Fool’s Crow (Welch), 810–11	on poetry, 62
‘First Fig’ (Millay), 420	Foote, Julia A. J., 309–10	Frederic, Harold, 299
First World War	for colored girls (Shange), 673	Frederick Douglass’ Paper,
effects, 339	For My People (Walker),	148
literary treatments, 440,	532–3	free verse
444, 445	‘For Once, Then Something’	and Harjo, 804
‘The Fish’ (Bishop), 584–5	(Frost), 382	and the Imagists, 390
Fisher, Rudolph, 512, 755	‘For the Marriage of Faustus	and Whitman, 233
Fisher, Vardis, 606	and Helen’ (Crane), 427	The Freedman’s Book (Child),
Fitch, Clyde, 453	‘For the Union Dead’	176
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 347, 365,	(Lowell), 589–90	freedom, see liberty and
435–40	For Whom the Bell Tolls	liberation
friends, 475	(Hemingway), 444	Freedom, 687
literary treatments, 711	Ford, Gerald: literary	Freedom’s Journal, 104, 160
precursors, 111, 371	treatments, 615	The Free-Lance Pallbearers
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 435, 436,	Ford, Richard, 617	(Reed), 681
439, 711	A Foregone Conclusion	Freeman, Mary Wilkins,
Fitzhugh, George, 168, 170–1	(Howells), 283	264–5
Fitzhugh, William, 57	‘Foreign Affairs’ (Kunitz),	French, Marilyn, 628
The Fixer (Malamud), 609	581–2	Freneau, Philip, 88–9
Flaubert, Gustave, 289	The Forerunner, 316	Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller’s
Fleming, Henry (The Red	Forest, John William De, 287	City (MacLeish), 484
Badge of Courage),	Forman, A. L., 511	Frethorne, Richard, 32
304–5	Forrest, Leon, 685–6	Freud, Sigmund, inﬂuence,
Fletcher, Bridget Richardson,	‘The Forsaken Brother’	338, 396–7, 460
62	(Schoolcraft), 153–4	Friedan, Betty, 559
Fletcher, John Gould, 396	The 42nd Parallel (Dos	‘The Frigate Pelican’ (Moore),
Flight (White), 512	Passos), 440, 441–2	419
Flight to Canada (Reed), 681,	47 Workshop, 459	From Here to Eternity (Jones),
682	Foster, Hannah Webster, 92,	601
Flint, F. S., 389	94–5	From Plotz to Boston (Antin),
The Floating Opera (Barth),	Foundation series (Asimov),	329
734	760	from Sand Creek (Ortiz), 802

862

Index

‘From the Dark Tower’	Gallimard, René	The Generall Historie of
(Cullen), 527	(M. Butterﬂy), 723	Virginia (Smith), 29–31
From the Deep Woods to	Gandhi, Mahatma, 143	Generation X (Coupland),
Civilization (Eastman),	The Gangster of Love	758
324, 325	(Hagedorn), 799	The Genius of Universal
From the First Nine (Merrill),	Gant, Eugene (Wolfe	Emancipation, 164
652–3	character), 495–7	Gentleman of Elvas, 24
The Front Page (Hecht and	Garcia, Christine, 785–6	Gentlewoman (Lawson), 457
MacArthur), 372, 455	‘The Garden’ (Pound), 399	The Geographical History of
frontier life: literary	A Garden of Earthly Delights	America (Stein), 431,
treatments	(Oates), 624	432
19th century, 107–11,	Gardner, Erle Stanley, 541	‘George Crabbe’ (Robinson),
112–18, 124–9, 215–16,	Gardner, John, 738, 739–40	376–7
224–5, 258–9	Garland, Hamlin, 296–8,	‘George Moses Horton,
20th century, 355, 384–8	303, 506	Myself ’ (Horton), 164
Bishop on, 476	Garnet, Henry Highland,	Georgia Scenes (Longstreet),
Kennedy’s use as	162–3	125–6
metaphor, 557–8	Garrison, William Lloyd,	Gernsback, Hugo, 759
in Westerns, 537–40	101, 146, 164–5, 178,	Gerstler, Amy, 772
see also West	181	Getting Home Alive (Morales),
The Frontiers of Love (Chang),	Gass, William H., 606, 740	782
792	The Gates Ajar (Phelps),	‘Ghost Dance Songs’, 322
Frost, Carol, 598, 599	315	Gibson, William, 618
Frost, Robert, 374, 379–84	A Gathering of Old Men	Gilbert, Olive, 181
and Kennedy, 557	(Gaines), 683	Gilchrist, Ellen, 626, 627
on New England, 261	Gatsby, Jay (The Great	The Gilded Age (Twain),
on Thoreau, 140	Gatsby), 111, 436–9	251
Fruitlands, 313	Geertz, Clifford, 563	Giles Goat-Boy (Barth), 733,
The Fugitive, 464–5	Gelber, John, 712	735
Fugitive movement, 425–6,	gender issues	Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,
464–75	African Americans, 670–1,	316–18, 355
fulﬁlment: literary treatments	696–8, 698–9	Gilmore, Gary, 604
Anderson, 372	Butler, 762	Ginsberg, Allen, 641, 642–5
Dreiser, 364–5, 366, 367	Cervantes, 773	and Burroughs, 657
Malamud, 609–10	Fuller on differences	inﬂuence, 559, 666
Moore, 417–18	between sexes, 137	literary treatments, 655
O’Neill, 462	Hwang, 722–3	and Vietnam, 560, 579,
Fuller, Henry, 299	Le Guin, 761	642, 644
Fuller, Margaret, 103, 104,	machismo, 773–4, 778,	Giorno, John, 772
131, 135–8, 203	783	Giovanni, Nikki, 668,
Funnyhouse of a Negro	Olsen, 765	669–70, 670–1
(Kennedy), 688	sexual equality and the	Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin),
Fus Fixico letters (Posey),	Revolution, 79–81	678
261	slavery, 146, 148–51,	The Girl (Le Sueur), 494
	173–4, 177–8, 186–7	The Girl with Green Eyes
Gabriel Tolliver (Harris), 267	see also feminism; women	(Fitch), 453
Gaddis, William, 605	‘General William Booth	Glancy, Diane, 805
Gage, Frances, 182	Enters Into Heaven’	Glasgow, Ellen, 355, 358–61,
Gaines, Ernest, 682–3	(Lindsay), 480	368

Index

863

The Glass Menagerie	Goodhue, Sara Whipple,	Grayson, William J., 168,
(Williams), 707–8	41–2	169
The Gleaner (Murray), 81,	Goodis, David, 543	Great Awakenings, 55, 102,
94	Goodrich, Samuel, 202,	164
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet),	203	The Great Christian Doctrine
718	‘The Goophered Grapevine’	of Original Sin Defended
Glooscap (Passamaqoddy	(Chesnutt), 278, 279–80	(Edwards), 67
character), 11	Gordon, Caroline, 466	The Great Divide (Moody),
‘Gloucester Moors’ (Moody),	Gordon, Dexter, 673	299, 454
299	Gordon, Mary, 628	Great Exposition, Paris
Glück, Louise, 597	Gorilla, My Love (Bambara),	(1900), 336
Go Tell It on the Mountain	663–4	The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald),
(Baldwin), 677–8	Gothic novels and tropes	111, 365, 436–9
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater	Alcott, 312–13	The Great God Brown
(Vonnegut), 758	Brown, 96–7	(O’Neill), 460
The God-Seeker (Lewis), 371	Cable, 274, 275, 276	The Great God Success
God without Thunder	Crafts, 189–90, 190–1	(Phillips), 330
(Ransom), 466	Doctorow, 608	The Great Meadow (Roberts),
God’s Grace (Malamud), 609	Morrison, 693	433
God’s Trombones (Johnson),	O’Connor, 622	Greeley, Horace, 136
353	postwar, 601	Green, Jacob D., 185
Godey’s Lady’s Book, 104, 121	Selby, 727	Green, Paul, 457
Godfrey, Thomas, 453	Southern Gothic, 118,	Green Grass, Running Water
Gods Determinations touching	122–3	(King), 805
his Elect (Taylor), 48	Spofford, 314	Greenﬁeld Hill (Dwight),
Godwin, Gail, 626	Stoddard, 218, 219	89–90
Godwin, William, inﬂuence,	Wright, 535	‘Gregorio Cortez’ (corrido),
96	The Gourd Dancer	321–2
Goin’ a Buffalo (Bullins), 689	(Momaday), 806	Grendel (Gardner), 739–40
Going for Cacciato (O’Brien),	government, American	Grenier, Robert, 745, 746
727	Cooper on, 111–12	Grey, Zane, 538, 539
Going for Rain (Ortiz), 802	Ferlinghetti on, 637	Grifﬁth, D. W., 441
Gold, Michael, 347, 486,	Martí on, 323	Grifﬁths, Clyde (An American
487–8	Miller on, 705–6, 707	Tragedy), 367–8
The Golden Apples of the Sun	Morrison on, 695	Grimes, William, 185
(Bradbury), 760	see also democracy	Grimké, Angelina, see Weld,
Golden Boy (Odets), 456, 457	Graham, Sheila, 439	Angelina Grimké
Goldsmith, Oliver, inﬂuence,	‘The Grandfather’ (Cary),	Grimké, Sarah Moore, 176,
106	216–17	177
Gone With the Wind	‘Grandfather’ (Miles), 421	Grisham, John, 757
(Mitchell), 533, 546–9	The Grandissimes (Cable),	The Group (McCarthy),
Good Housekeeping, 333	276–7	491–2
A Good Man is Hard to Find	‘Grapes Making’ (Adams),	Group Theatre, 456–8
(O’Connor), 622–3	422	The Groves of Academe
A Good Scent from a Strange	The Grapes of Wrath	(McCarthy), 491
Mountain (Butler), 727	(Steinbeck), 347, 497–9	Guare, John, 712
Good Wives (Alcott), 312	The Grass Roof (Kang), 504	Guest, Barbara, 649
Goodbye, Columbus (Roth),	Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon),	Guie, Heister Dean,
613	732	509

864

Index

guilt: literary treatments	Hanson, Elizabeth Meader,	Hayden, Robert, 528–9
Hawthorne, 201–2, 203	51	Hayes, Alfred, 481
Ignatow, 576	‘The Happiest Man on Earth’	Haynes, Lemuel, 83
Logan, 571	(Maltz), 489	A Hazard of New Fortunes
Miller, 703–7	Harding, Warren, 343	(Howells), 286
Schwartz, 574–5	Harjo, Joy, 804	Heading West (Betts), 628
Styron, 606	Harlem (Thurman), 511	‘Heart’s Needle’ (Snodgrass),
‘Gulls’ (Nemerov), 582	Harlem Gallery (Tolson), 528	571
Gurdjieff, Georgei I., 520	Harlem Renaissance, 342–3,	Hecht, Anthony, 567, 582
Guy Domville (James), 294	509–27	Hecht, Ben, 372, 455
Gyles, John, 51	Harlem Shadows (McKay),	Hedged In (Phelps), 315
Gysin, Brion, 657	513	The Heidi Chronicles
	Harmonium (Stevens), 393,	(Wasserstein), 721
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle),	411, 413	Heinlein, Robert, 759
388–9, 390–2, 416, 636	Harper, Frances E. W.,	Heirs of Columbus (Vizenor),
Hagedorn, Jessica, 799	182–4	814–15
Hahn, Kimiko, 599, 600	Harper, Michael, 671–2	Hejinian, Lyn, 744–5, 746–7
Haines, John, 597	Harper’s Ferry raid, 166	A Hell of a Woman
The Hairy Ape (O’Neill),	Harper’s Monthly Magazine,	(Thompson), 751
458, 459, 460	282	Heller, Joseph, 602
Hakluyt, Richard, the elder,	Harris, George Washington,	Hellman, Lillian, 348, 490–1,
26	128–9	541–2
Hakluyt, Richard, the	Harris, Joel Chandler, 267–8	Hemingway, Ernest, 347,
younger, 24, 26–7	Harris, Thomas, 757–8	348, 442–7
Haida people, 14	Harrison, William Henry,	and Anderson, 371, 373
Hale, Janet Campbell, 805	102	and Crane, 303
Hale, Sara Josepha, 104	Harryman, Carla, 745, 746–7	and Gold, 488
Haley, Alex, 679	Hart, Lorenz, 702	inﬂuence, 619
Hall, Donald, 574	Hart, Moss, 455, 702	and Stein, 432
Hall, Prince, 83–4	Harte, Francis Bret, 251, 258	on Twain, 255–6
Hallek, Fitz-Greene, 105	Hartigan, Grace, 647	Hemphill, Essex, 674
Hamilton, Alexander, 96	‘The Hasty Pudding’ (Barlow),	Henderson, David, 665
The Hamlet (Faulkner), 449	90	Henley, Beth, 720
Hammer, Mike (Spillane	Hathorne, John, 201–2	Henri, Robert, 365
character), 750	Hathorne, William, 201	Hentz, Caroline Lee, 171–3
Hammerstein, Oscar, 702	Haun, Mildred, 490	Hepburn, Katharine, 546
Hammett, Dashiel, 491,	Hawkes, John, 735, 736,	Herbert, Frank, 760
541–2	737–8	‘Heritage’ (Cullen), 527
Hammon, Briton, 185	Hawthorne, Nathaniel,	Herland (Gilman), 316
Hammon, Jupiter, 83, 86	200–7	heroes and heroism: literary
Hammond, James Henry,	and cooperative	treatments
168, 170	communities, 135	baseball players as heroes,
Hammond, John, 28–9	on Eliot, 53	609
Hamor, Ralph, 27–8	and Emerson, 131	Berger, 739
Handke, Peter, 742	and human behaviour, 34	Cooper, 108–9, 111
Handsome Lake, 32	and literary magazines, 104	democratic epic, 91, 236–7
Handy, W. C., 520, 530, 531	precursors, 99	detectives as heroes, 540,
Hannah, Barry, 618, 727	and Stoddard, 217	542, 754
Hansberry, Lorraine, 686–7	on Tuckerman, 232	Ellison, 675

Index

865

heroes and heroism: literary	Latino/a writers, 780–6	James Madison
treatments (cont’d)	postwar conditions, 562–3	(Adams), 318
Hemingway, 446, 447	Southwest folklore,	Hobomok (Child), 175
London, 306, 308	158–60	Hoffman, William M., 721
Malamud, 609–10	see also Mexican	Hogan, Linda, 805
Melville, 211–12, 213, 214	Americans	Holiday, Billie, 531
Native American stories, 5,	Historia de la Nueva Mexico	The Hollow Men (Gold),
9, 10–14	(Villagrá), 23	488
naturalists, 300	historians, 113–14, 318	Hollywood
Olson, 631	historical novels: 19th	dramatists as screenwriters,
Pound, 401	century, 108–11, 112,	455
Stevens, 413	168–9, 175, 201–7, 256	and Faulkner, 449
vernacular, 124–9	historical novels: 20th	and Fitzgerald, 439, 549
Westerns, 537, 538–9	century	literary treatments, 440,
Whitman, 236–7	early, 364, 520–2, 546–9	549, 552, 718
Wright, 536	Korean, 798	and Maltz, 489
The Heroic Slave (Douglass),	Native American, 810–13,	and Yezierska, 500
184–5	814–15	Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
Herr, Michael, 728	postmodern, 732–3, 735,	133–4, 230, 231
Herzog (Bellow), 611–12	737, 738–9, 740–1	Holocaust: literary treatments,
Heyward, DuBose, 454	postwar, 608, 620, 693–4,	606, 706, 763–7
Hiawatha	699, 762	Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
in Native American	history	(Berryman), 591–2
stories, 11	Abish on, 742	Home: Social Essays (Baraka),
The Song of Hiawatha	African American writers	666
(Longfellow), 228	on, 684–5	The Home Place (Morris),
The Hidden Hand	Asimov on, 760	607, 608
(Southworth), 104	Ashbery on, 652	Home to Harlem (McKay),
Hiding Place (Wideman),	Barth on, 735	513
685	Coover on, 740–1	Homebase (Wong), 793
Higgins, George V., 753, 754	Howe on, 749	‘The Homecoming Singer’
Higginson, Thomas	see also past	(Wright), 599
Wentworth, 164, 166,	History (Lowell), 590	homelessness, and McCarthy,
239, 243	The History and Present State	619
Highsmith, Patricia, 751–2	of Virginia (Beverley),	Homer, inﬂuence on
Hijuelos, Oscar, 785	57	Longfellow, 228
Hillerman, Tony, 757	A History of New York	Homewood trilogy
Himes, Chester, 755–6	(Irving), 105–6	(Wideman), 685
Hinojosa, Rolando, 562, 757,	History of the Conquest of	homosexuality: literary
777	Mexico (Prescott),	treatments
‘Hints to Young Wives’	113–14	Baldwin, 676, 678
(Fern), 179	The History of the Dividing	blues songs, 531
hip-hop, 669	Line betwixt Virginia	Burroughs, 656
‘The Hireling and the Slave’	and North Carolina	Capote, 724
(Grayson), 169	(Byrd), 58–9	Duncan, 637
Hispanics	History of the United	Hemphill, 674
Chicano/a writings,	States During the	Merrill, 653
771–80	Administration of	Native American writings,
detective novels, 757	Thomas Jefferson and	805

866

Index

O’Hara, 648	‘The House on the Hill’	Hugo, Richard, 570
postwar drama, 721–2	(Robinson), 375	A Humble Romance
postwar poetry, 599, 600	House Un-American	(Freeman), 264–5
Whitman, 233	Activities Committee,	Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow),
Hongo, Garrett, 796	489, 491, 555, 705	612
Hooper, Johnson Jones,	housekeeping manuals, 175,	humility, Crane on, 303,
126	179	305
The Hoosier Schoolmaster	‘How Annandale Went Out’	humour, see comedy and
(Eggleston), 259	(Robinson), 376	humour
Hoover, Herbert, 345	How German It Is (Abish),	Humphreys, Josephine, 626
Hope Leslie (Sedgwick),	742	Hunter, Albert, 531
115–18	‘How Should Women Write’	Hunter, Evan, see McBain,
The Hope of Liberty (Horton),	(Bryan), 104	Ed
163	How Stella Got Her Groove	‘The Hunters of Men’
Hopi people, 9, 803	Back (McMillan), 699	(Whittier), 167
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth,	How the Garcia Girls Lost	Huron people, 21
309–12	Their Accent (Alvarez),	Hurston, Zora Neale, 353,
The Horizon, 351	784	510, 511, 512, 514–16
Horne, James, 453	‘How You Sound??’ (Baraka),	and Toomer, 518
Horniblow, Molly, 149	665	and Walker, 696
‘A Horseman in the Sky’	Howe, Irving, 554	Hutchinson, Anne, 36–7, 39,
(Bierce), 287	Howe, Julia Ward, 224	205
Horton, George Moses,	Howe, Susan, 744, 747,	Hwang, David Henry, 722–3
163–4	749
Hospital Sketches (Alcott),	Howells, William Dean,	I, the Jury (Spillane), 750
312	282–6	‘I, Too’ (Hughes), 524
Hoss (The Tooth of Crime),	and Cahan, 328	I Can’t Remember Anything
715–16	and Crane, 303	(Miller), 706
The Hot l Baltimore	and James, 287	‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’
(Wilson), 717	and Stoddard, 217	(Dickinson), 242
‘Hotgun on the Death of	and Twain, 252	‘I Have a Dream’ speech
Yadeka Harjo’ (Posey),	Howl (Ginsberg), 641, 642–3	(King), 680
260–1	Hua, Chuang, 559, 792	‘I Know a Man’ (Creeley),
The House Behind the Cedars	Huckleberry Finn, The	634
(Chesnutt), 281	Adventures of (Twain),	I Know Why the Caged Bird
House Made of Dawn	128, 253–6	Sings (Angelou), 664
(Momaday), 559,	and Salinger, 660	I Love Lucy (television
804–5, 806–8	Hudibrastic verse, 63	show), 785
The House of Blue Leaves	Hue and Cry (McPherson),	I Should Have Stayed Home
(Guare), 712	685	(McCoy), 549
The House of Connelly	Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	‘I Want You Women Up
(Green), 457	(Pound), 400	North to Know’
The House of Mirth	Hughes, Henry, 168, 169–70	(Olsen), 482
(Wharton), 356	Hughes, Langston, 482, 510,	‘I Was Marching’ (Le Sueur),
The House of the Seven	511, 522–5	494
Gables (Hawthorne),	and Bontemps, 520, 521	Icarus’s Mother (Shepard),
200, 201	inﬂuence, 666, 687	715
The House on Mango Street	literary treatments, 512	The Iceman Cometh (O’Neill),
(Cisneros), 778–9	and Toomer, 518–19	458, 461

Index

867

Ida (Stein), 431–2	327–35, 499–505, 757,	India Christiana (Mather),
‘The Idea of Order at Key	762–801	52–3
West’ (Stevens), 411,	immigration	Indian Boyhood (Eastman),
415	18th century, 55	324
identity: literary treatments	19th century, 100, 246–7	‘The Indian Burying Ground’
Bellow, 610–13	20th century, 341, 562–3,	(Freneau), 89
Brown, 99	762–3, 771, 786	‘Indian Camp’ (Hemingway),
Douglass, 147	The Imported Bridegroom	442–3
Hurston, 514	(Cahan), 328	Indian Lawyer (Welch), 810
Kennedy, 688	improvisation, 712	The Indian Princess (Barker),
Lowell, 587–90	‘In a Coffee Pot’ (Hayes),	453
McPherson, 685	481	The Indian Today (Eastman),
Malamud, 609–10	In Cold Blood (Capote),	324
postwar poetry, 567–73	724–6	‘The Indian’s Welcome to
Roth, 613–14	In Country (Mason), 626	the Pilgrim Fathers’
Shepard, 715	In Our Time (Hemingway),	(Sigourney), 224
Thoreau, 142	442–3, 444	Indians (Kopit), 713
Wright, 534–5	In Search of Our Mothers’	individualism
see also self	Gardens (Walker), 695,	postwar, 556, 563
identity, black, see African	696	individualism: literary
Americans: writings	In the American Tree, 745	treatments
identity, immigrant see	In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel	Brautigan, 661
immigrant experience:	(Williams), 711	Chopin, 270–4
literary treatments	In the Heart of the Heart of	Cooper, 110–11
identity, Native American	the Country (Gass), 606	cummings, 422–4
see Native Americans:	In the Heart of the Valley of	DeLillo, 616–17
writings	Love (Kadohata), 797	Dickinson, 243–4
If I Die in a Combat Zone	In the Lake of the Woods	Dos Passos, 441–2
(O’Brien), 727	(O’Brien), 727	Ellison, 675–6
‘If We Must Die’ (McKay),	‘In the Land of the Free’	Emerson, 130, 131–5
512–13	(Eaton), 334	Fuller, 136–8
Ignatow, David, 575, 576	In the Midst of Life (Bierce),	H. D., 391–2
I’ll Take My Stand (‘Twelve	286–7	Hawthorne, 204–5
Southerners’), 466,	In the Presence of the Sun	James, 289, 293–4
471–2	(Momaday), 806	Jeffers, 384–8
illusion, Wilson on, 717	In the Tennessee Mountains	Kesey, 661–3
‘Ilu, the Talking Drum’	(Murfree), 269	Moore, 416–17, 422
(Knight), 671	‘In the Waiting Room’	naturalists, 300, 302–5, 308
images	(Bishop), 584	Poe, 121
H. D.’s use of, 392	In This Our Life (Glasgow),	Thoreau, 138–44
Hongo’s use of, 796	361	Twain, 254–7
‘Imaginary Elegies’ (Spicer),	‘Incident’ (Cullen), 527	Whitman, 234–6
638–9	Incident at Vichy (Miller),	Williams, 408
imagination, Stevens on,	706	see also self-help
411–16	Incidents in the Life of a Slave	Infants of the Spring
Imagism, 388–97, 464–5	Girl (Jacobs), 148–51	(Thurman), 511–12
and Winters, 477	‘Independence’ (Fern), 179	‘Information to Those Who
immigrant experience:	Independence Day (Ford),	Would Remove to
literary treatments,	617, 618	America’ (Franklin), 72

868

Index

Inge, William, 711–12	Ishmael (Moby-Dick),	jazz
Ingraham, Prentiss, 538	212–13	and African American
Inhumanism, 384, 387–8	Islam, and African Americans,	poetry, 671–2, 673
injustice, social: literary	663, 679	and beat poetry, 641, 642,
treatments	An Island Like You (Cofer),	666
20th century, 347	782	and Creeley, 633
naturalists, 298–9, 301–3,	Islands in the Stream	Ellison on, 674
305–6	(Hemingway), 443	Gelber’s use of, 712
radicals, 478–95	isolation, see loneliness;	and Hughes, 523
Steinbeck, 497–9	solitude and solitariness	literary treatments, 511,
see also African Americans;	Israel Potter (Melville), 213	684, 697
immigrant experience;	It Can’t Happen Here	and Morrison, 694
Native Americans; race	(Lewis), 371	and Naylor, 698
issues and relations;	Italie, Jean-Claude van, 712	Shepard’s use of, 715
slavery	‘Its Wavering Image’ (Eaton),	Jazz (Morrison), 694
innocence	334–5	‘Jean-ah Poquelin’ (Cable),
and the past, 257	‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’	274–6
Twain on, 254–7	speech (King), 680	Jeffers, Robinson, 374,
The Innocents Abroad (Twain),		384–8, 638
250, 251	‘Jacinto Treviño’ (corrido),	Jefferson, Thomas, 76–9, 80,
insanity, see mental illness	322	160–1, 186
‘Inscription for the Entrance	Jackson, Andrew, 102, 124,	Jen, Gish, 788, 789
to a Wood’ (Bryant),	480	Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser),
227	Jackson, Helen Hunt, 239	366
The Interesting Narrative of	Jacobs, Harriet, 148–52	Jerusalem (Blake), 236
the Life of Olaudah	James, Alice, 288–9	The Jewels of Aptor (Delany),
Equiano (Equiano),	James, Henry, 287–96	761
84–5	and Cather, 361	Jewett, Sarah Orne, 261–4
Inuit people, 17	on Civil War, 257	and Cather, 262, 264, 355,
Invisible Man (Ellison),	and Crane, 303	361–2
675–6, 681	on Garland, 296–7	and Howells, 283
Iola Lerry (Harper), 184	on Hawthorne, 201, 207,	and Stowe, 200
Irigaray, Luce, 743	289–90	‘The Jewish Cemetery at
Irish immigrants, 100	and Howells, 283, 288	Newport’ (Longfellow),
literary treatments,	and Wharton, 355, 356	229
327–8	James, Henry Sr., 288, 294	Jewish Daily Forward, 328, 763
The Iron Heel (London),	James, William, 288	Jews: immigration, 763–4
305–6	Jameson, Fredric, x	Jews: literary treatments, 687,
Iron John (Bly), 578	Jane Talbot (Brown), 98	707, 720
Ironweed (Kennedy), 617	Japanese Americans:	see also Holocaust; Jews:
Iroquois people	writings, 503–4, 793–7	writings
and French, 21	Japanese poetry, inﬂuence on	Jews: writings
stories, 11	Pound, 399	early to mid-20th century,
The Irresponsibles (MacLeish),	Jargon Press, 632	328–9, 487–8, 499–500,
484	Jarrell, Randall, 564–5,	609–14
Irving, John, 741	565–6, 582, 727	late 20th century, 763–4,
Irving, Washington, 105–7,	Jasmine (Mukherjee),	766–7, 782
155	800–1	Jews without Money (Gold),
Is 5 (cummings), 393	Jay, John, 96	488

Index

869

Jicarilla people, 7	and muckrakers, 330	Kenyon Review, 469
Joans, Ted, 666	poetry, 745	Kern, Jerome, 702
Joaquin Murieta, Life and	see also individual journals	Kerouac, Jack, 556, 641, 642,
Adventures of (Ridge),	by name; magazines;	645, 654–6
153	newspapers	Kesey, Ken, 645, 654, 661–3
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone	The Journey of Simon	A Key into the Language of
(Wilson), 690	McKeever (Maltz), 489	America (Williams),
John Andross (Davis), 220	The Joy Luck Club (Tan),	39–41
‘John Brown’s Body’, 224	788–9	Khlebnikov, Velimir, 742
John March, Southerner	Joyce, James, 341, 432, 456,	‘Kiansas’ (corrido), 321
(Cable), 277	742, 806	Killens, John O., 684
John Marr and Other Sailors	Jubilee (Walker), 533	The Killer Inside Me
(Melville), 214	Judson, Edward, see Buntline,	(Thompson), 750–1
John Ward, Preacher (Deland),	Ned	Killers of the Dream (Smith),
299	The Jungle (Sinclair), 329–32	490
John Winthrop’s Christian	Junkie (Burroughs), 656	Kincaid, Jamaica, 700, 701
Experience (Winthrop),	Jurgen (Cabell), 368–9	Kindred (Butler), 762
36	Justice, Donald, 567, 582	King, Grace, 269–70
Johnny Johnson (Green and	Juvenile Miscellany, 175, 176	King, Martin Luther, 143,
Weill), 457		560, 678–9, 680
Johns, Jasper, 647	Kadohata, Cynthia, 797	literary treatments, 685
Johnson, Charles R., 684, 685	Kafka, Franz, 346	King, Stephen, 757
Johnson, Esther, 744	Kalar, Joseph, 482	King, Thomas, 805
Johnson, James Weldon,	Kang, Younghill, 503, 504,	King Blood (Thompson),
348–9, 352–5, 511	505	751
Johnson, Lyndon B., 560	Kanin, Garson, 455	‘King Juke’ (Fearing), 485
Johnson, Robert, 531, 816	Kansas City Death Trap	‘The Kingﬁsher’ (Clampitt),
Johnston, Basil H., 805	Series (Hinojosa), 777	597
Johnston, Mary, 250, 355	Karenga, Moulana, 669	‘The Kingﬁshers’ (Olson),
Johnston, Richard Malcolm,	Karenga, Ron, 665	631
250, 268	Karok people, 13	Kingsblood Royal (Lewis),
Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Hurston),	Katz, Steve, 740	371
514	Kaufman, Bob, 666	Kingsolver, Barbara, 628
Jonathan (The Contrast), 92	Kaufman, George S., 455,	Kingston, Maxine Hong,
Jones, Hugh, 57, 58	702	788, 789–92
Jones, James, 601	Kavanagh (Longfellow),	Kinnell, Galway, 569, 580
Jones, Leroi, see Baraka,	228–9	Kiowa people, 6, 806
Imamu Amiri	Kazan, Elia, 702, 708	Kirkland, Caroline, 214–16
Jones, Richard M., 531	Keats, John, 527	Kizer, Carolyn, 598, 599
Jong, Erica, 628, 741	Kees, Weldon, 567, 582	Klein, Charles, 454
Jordan, Jone, 671	Keller, Nora Okja, 797–8	‘The Klupzy Girl’ (Bernstein),
Josephson, Matthew, 344	Kelly, Robert, 569	747–8
‘The Journal of Julius	Kennedy, Adrienne, 687–8	Knickerbocker School, 105
Rodman’ (Poe), 118–19	Kennedy, John F., 556–7,	Knight, Denis, 579
journals and periodicals	559, 561	Knight, Etheridge, 671, 672
19th century, 249	Kennedy, John Pendleton,	Knight, Sarah Kemble, 55–6
African American, 310	121, 171	The Knights of the Golden
anti-slavery, 101, 104, 145,	Kennedy, William, 617	Horseshoe (Caruthers),
148, 160, 163, 164	Kennedy, X. J., 567, 582	172

870

Index

Koch, Kenneth, 645, 647,	language	Leaves from My Life (Cahan),
649, 650	and Barth, 733–5	329
Kokomaht, 8–9	and Burroughs, 657–8	‘Leaves from the Mental
Komunyakaa, Yusef, 598,	Dove on, 672	Portfolio of an
599, 673	Duncan on, 636	Eurasian’ (Eaton), 333
Kooning, Willem de, 647,	Maclow on, 743	Leaves of Grass (Whitman),
746	and Mamet, 718	233–7
Kopit, Arthur, 712–13	and Native American	lectures, public, 104, 165,
Korean Americans: writings,	writers, 802–9	251
503, 504, 757, 797–8	and Walker, 697	Ledbetter, Huddie
Kosinski, Jerzy, 741–2	Welty on, 620–1	(‘Leadbelly’), 531
Kowalski, Stanley (A Streetcar	L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 745	Lee, Chang-Rae, 757
Named Desire), 708–9	language, transrational, 742	Lee, Chin Yang, 787
Kramer, Larry, 721	‘Language’ Poetries, 745	Lee, Don L., see Madhubuti,
Kristeva, Julia, 743	language poetry, 742–9	Haki R.
Ku Klux Klan, 247, 344	Lanier, Sidney, 266–7	Lee, Li-Young, 599, 600
Kumashtam’hu, 8	Lapham, Col. Silas (The Rise	Lee, Manfred, 541
Kumin, Maxine, 598, 599	of Silas Lapham), 283–4	Lee, Mary Paik, 798
Kunitz, Stanley, 567, 581–2	Larcom, Lucy, 225, 226	The Left Hand (Le Guin),
	Lardner, Ring, 455, 545	761
L.A. Conﬁdential (Ellroy),	Larsen, Nella, 514, 516–18	legal procedural novels, 757
753–4	Larsen, Wolf (The Sea-Wolf ),	legal world: literary
labour: literary treatments	306, 307, 308	treatments, 727
Di Donato, 500–2	Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby),	‘The Legend of Sleepy
Howells, 286	727	Hollow’ (Irving), 106
Le Sueur, 494	‘The Last Leaf ’ (Holmes),	Lennon, John, 688
muckrakers, 331–2	230	Lensman novels (Smith), 759
Sinclair, 330	The Last of the Mohicans	Leonard, Elmore, 753, 754
labour unions	(Cooper), 108	lesbianism: literary
Filipino, 505	The Last Poets, 669	treatments
spread of, 341	The Last Tycoon (Fitzgerald),	blues songs, 531
El Theatre Campesino,	440	Native American writings,
559	Latino/a writers, 780–6	805
Lacan, Jacques, 743	Laudonnière, René Goulaine	postwar poetry, 599, 600
The Lady from Dubuque	de, 21–2	Less Than Zero (Ellis),
(Albee), 714	‘Laura’, see Fergusson,	617–18
‘Lady Lazarus’ (Plath), 568,	Elizabeth Graeme	A Lesson Before Dying
595	Laviera, Tato, 781	(Gaines), 683
A Lady of Aroostook	The Law of Civilization and	Letters (Barth), 734
(Howells), 283	Decay (Adams), 318	Letters from an American
Laforgue, Jules, 403	Lawrence, D. H., 338, 340,	Farmer (Crèvecoeur),
Laguna people, 808	658	73
Lamantia, Philip, 639	Lawson, John Howard,	Letters from New York
L’Amour, Louis, 540	457	(Child), 176
The Lamplighter (Cummins),	Le Guin, Ursula, 760–1,	‘The Letters of Jonathan
104	762	Oldstyle, Gent.’
The Land of Little Rain	Le Sueur, Meridel, 490–5	(Irving), 105
(Austin), 326–7	Leatherstocking Tales	Letters on the Equality of the
Langley, Samuel P., 320	(Cooper), 108–11	Sexes (Grimké), 177–8

Index

871

Letters to Catharine Beecher	Lincoln (Markham), 298–9	Locke, Alain, 342, 510,
(Weld), 177	Lincoln, Abraham	511–12, 514
Letting Go (Roth), 613	death, 245–6	Locke, John, 55, 68
Levertov, Denise, 390, 579,	and Douglass, 148	Logan (Neal), 112
632, 646	and Lindsay, 480	Logan, John, 568, 570, 571
Levine, Philip, 576–7	literary treatments, 682	logopoeia, 399
Levitation (Ozick), 766	Sandburg’s biography,	Lolita (Nabokov), 768,
Lewis, Richard, 63–4	479–80	769–71
Lewis, Sinclair, 368, 369–71	and Stowe, 196	Loman, Willy (Death of a
The Liberator (20th-century	Lindbergh, Charles, 343	Salesman), 703–5
magazine), 487	Linden Hills (Naylor), 698	London: literary treatments,
The Liberator (anti-slavery	Lindsay, Howard, 455	58
journal), 101, 145, 163,	Lindsay, Vachel, 371, 480–1,	London, Jack, 299–300,
164	666	305–8, 330
The Liberties (Howe), 744	The Linwoods (Sedgwick),	loneliness: literary treatments
liberty and liberation	115, 117	Dickinson, 237–44
Cisneros on, 778	The Lion and the Mouse	Eliot, 402–6
Dos Passos on, 442	(Klein), 454	Heinlein, 759
Foster on, 95	Lippman, Walter, 543	Inge, 711–12
Herbert on, 760	literary criticism: New	McCullers, 624
James on, 289, 293–4	Criticism, 466–7, 471	Melville, 210, 212–13
Johnson on, 685	‘Literary Importation’	Niedecker, 396
naturalists on, 300	(Freneau), 89	Pound, 400
Plath on, 595	Literary Magazine and	Reznikoff, 395–6
pro-slavers on, 171	American Register,	Robinson, 374–9
Winthrop on, 36	98	Whitman, 236
see also individualism	literary salons, 61, 216	Williams, 707–11
‘Liberty Further Extended’	‘The Literary Voyager or	see also solitude and
(Haynes), 83	Muzzenyegun’, 153–4	solitariness
liberty of conscience,	Little Big Man (Berger),	Long, Huey, 475
Williams on, 39	738–9	Long, John L., 454
Lie Down in Darkness	A Little Book of Friendships	A Long Day in a Short Life
(Styron), 605	(Spofford), 314	(Maltz), 489
Life and Adventures of	‘The Little Convent Girl’	Long Day’s Journey into
Joaquin Murieta	(King), 270	Night (O’Neill), 461–3
(Ridge), 153, 505	The Little Foxes (Hellman),	The Long March (Styron),
The Life, History and Travels	490–1	606
of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh	Little Review, 341, 372, 518	Longfellow, Henry
(Copway), 155	Little Women (Alcott), 312	Wadsworth, 152, 202,
‘Life in the Iron Mills’	Littlepage manuscripts	228–30, 231, 232
(Davis), 219–20	(Cooper), 112	Longstreet, Augustus
Life on the Mississippi	The Living is Easy (West),	Baldwin, 125–8
(Twain), 251, 252	532	Look Homeward, Angel
Life Studies (Lowell), 589,	Living Theatre, 712	(Wolfe), 495, 496
593	La Llorona (Hispanic folklore	Looking Backward (Bellamy),
‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’	character), 159–60	285
(Johnson), 353	‘La Llorona, Malinche, and	Lookout Cartridge (McElroy),
The Lime Twig (Hawkes),	the Unfaithful Maria’,	740
737	159–60	Loon Lake (Doctorow), 608

872

Index

Lord Weary’s Castle (Lowell),	Lowell, James Russell, 118,	Macdonald, Ross, 752–3
588	231–2	McElroy, Joseph, 740
Lorde, Audre, 599, 664, 671	Lowell, Robert, 554, 568,	McGee, Travis (Macdonald
Los Angeles, 19th-century	573, 587–91	character), 752
development, 246	inﬂuence, 593	Machine Dreams (Phillips),
Los Angeles quartet (Ellroy),	O’Hara on, 645	626–7
753–4	on Plath, 596	machismo: literary treatments,
Losing Battles (Welty), 621	and Vietnam, 560, 580	773–4, 778, 783
loss: literary treatments	Lowell Offering, 226	McInerney, Jay, 617
Bradstreet, 45–6	The Luck of Roaring Camp	McKay, Claude, 510, 512–14,
Cahan, 328–9	(Harte), 258	524
Pound, 400	Lucy (Kincaid), 701	Mackaye, Steele, 454
see also bereavement;	Lumpkin, Grace, 347	Mackey, Nathaniel, 673
nostalgia	lunacy, see mental illness	MacLeish, Archibald, 482,
Lost in the Funhouse (Barth),	Lundy, Benjamin, 164	484–5, 488
734	Lurie, Alison, 625	McLennan, Tommy, 531
The Lost Son (Roethke), 585	‘Lying in a Hammock’	Maclow, Jackson, 743
love: literary treatments	(Wright), 570	McMillan, Terry, 699
18th-century women’s	Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth),	McMurphy, Randle (One
poetry, 61	236	Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Austin, 327	Lyrics from Lowly Life	Nest), 662
blues songs, 531	(Dunbar), 260	McMurtry, Larry, 606, 607
Bradstreet, 45	Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 466	McNally, Terrence, 719
cummings, 423		McNickle, D’Arcy, 506,
Dickinson, 240–2	M. Butterﬂy (Hwang), 722–3	507–8
Hawthorne, 203–6	‘Ma Rainey’ (Brown), 526	McPherson, James Alan, 685
Miller, 704–5, 706	Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom	McTeague (Norris), 298, 301
Morrison, 694	(Wilson), 690	McWhorter, Lucullus, 509
Native American stories,	McAdoo, Uncle Julius	Madame Butterﬂy (Belasco),
14–16	(The Conjure Woman),	454
Osgood, 225–6	278–80	Madhubuti, Haki R. (Don L.
Parker, 546	MacArthur, Charles, 372,	Lee), 529, 668–9
Shepard, 717	455	Madison, James, 75, 77, 88,
Taylor, 47	McBain, Ed (Evan Hunter),	96
Updike, 615	751	madness, see mental illness
Wharton, 356–8	McCarthy, Cormac, 618–19	Magawisca (Hope Leslie),
Williams, 409	McCarthy, Joseph, 555	116–17
see also marriage; sex and	McCarthy, Mary, 490, 491–2	magazines, see also individual
sexuality	McCarthyism, 555–6	magazines by name;
Love & Fame (Berryman),	literary treatments, 705–6	journals and periodicals;
593	see also House Un-	newspapers
Love and the Soul Maker	American Activities	magazines, children’s, 175,
(Austin), 326	Committee	176
Love Medicine (Erdrich), 811	McClure, Michael, 639	magazines, literary and
‘The Love Song of J. Arthur	McClure, S. S., 361	political
Prufrock’ (Eliot), 403,	McClure’s, 330, 361	19th century, 98, 104, 121,
404	McCoy, Horace, 543, 549	249
Lovecraft, H. P., 758–9	McCullers, Carson, 623–4	African American, 351,
Lowell, Amy, 389, 390	Macdonald, John D., 752	511

Index

873

magazines, literary and	The Man Who Had All the	‘Marriage’ (Corso), 645
political (cont’d)	Luck (Miller), 703	Married or Single? (Sedgwick),
anti-slavery, 195	The Man Who Killed the	115, 117
feminist, 316	Deer (Waters), 606	The Marrow of Tradition
Native American, 153–4,	The Man with the Hoe	(Chesnutt), 281
156	(Markham), 298–9	Mars, James, 185
poetry, 371, 388, 393, 411	Manfred, Frederick, 606	Marshall, Paule, 700–1
magazines, pulp, 539–40	Manhattan Transfer (Dos	Martí, José, 323
magazines, science ﬁction,	Passos), 440–1	The Martian Chronicles
759	Manly, Colonel (The	(Bradbury), 760
magazines, thriller and	Contrast), 91–2	Mártin and Meditations on
detective, 368, 750, 753	Mao II (DeLillo), 617	the South Valley (Soto),
Maggie (Crane), 303–4	‘The Map’ (Bishop), 583	772
magic	The Marble Faun (Faulkner),	Marvin X, 668
and Alexei, 815–17	448	Marxism
and Barthelme, 736–7	The Marble Faun	and Baraka, 666–7
in Hispanic folklore,	(Hawthorne), 206	early 20th century, 338,
158–60	Marching Men (Anderson),	347
and Kingston, 791–2	372	and Wright, 532, 534
Shepard on, 715	Marcos de Niza, Fray, 18–19,	see also Communism
magic realism, 727, 741, 779,	23	Mason, Bobbie Ann, 626,
785, 811–13	Mardi (Melville), 207, 208–9	726, 727
Magnalia Christi Americana	Margaret Fleming (Horne),	Mason and Dixon (Pynchon),
(Mather), 53–4	453	732–3
Magritte, René, 743	marginalized subjects and	Masons, 83–4
Mahicans, 156	voices	Massachusetts Bay Colony,
Mailer, Norman, 560, 600–1,	and Hongo, 796	31, 35–7, 39
602–4, 616, 724	and language poets, 744,	Massachusetts Bay Company,
Main Street (Lewis), 369–70	749	35, 39
Main-Travelled Roads	Marilyn (Mailer), 604	‘Massachusetts to Virginia’
(Garland), 297	‘Marina’ (Eliot), 393	(Whittier), 167–8
Major, Clarence, 740	Markham, Edwin, 298–9, 302	The Masses, 487
Malamud, Bernard, 609–10	Marlowe, Philip (Chandler	Masters, Edgar Lee, 371, 481,
Malcolm X, 663, 668,	character), 542	576
678–80	Marquand, John B., 604	materialism: literary
Malinche, 159–60	Marquis, Don, 423	treatments
The Maltese Falcon	marriage: literary treatments	O’Neill, 458–9, 460
(Hammett), 541	Alcott, 313	Pinsky, 598
Maltz, Albert, 486, 488–9	Bradstreet, 45	Shepard, 715–17
Mama Day (Naylor), 698	Chopin, 270–4	Thoreau, 140–1
The Mambo Kings Play Songs	Corso, 645	Warren, 474
of Love (Hijuelos), 785	Eaton, 334	West, 549, 551–2
Mamet, David, 713, 717–19	Hawthorne, 203–6	see also commodity culture;
‘The Man Against the Sky’	James, 293–4, 295	consumerism
(Robinson), 378–9	Miller, 706	The Materials (Oppen),
‘Man on a Road’ (Maltz),	Olsen, 765	395
489	Taylor, 47	Mather, Cotton, 41, 42,
The Man Who Cried I Am	Wharton, 356–8	52–4, 62
(Williams), 684	see also divorce	Matisse, Henri, 431

874

Index

Matthews, John Joseph, 506,	Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer	folklore, 158–60
508	(Patchen), 485, 486	immigration, 771
Matthiessen, Peter, 727	Memoirs of Carwin (Brown),	postwar conditions, 559,
Mauberley (Pound), 400	98	562–3
Maximus Poems (Olson),	Memories of a Catholic	El Theatre Campesino,
631–2	Girlhood (McCarthy),	559
Maya (Oates), 625	492	Miami and the Siege of
Mayer, Bernadette, 747	Memories of the Ford	Chicago (Mailer), 604
Mean Spirit (Hogan), 805	Administration	Middle Passage (Johnson),
meaning	(Updike), 615	685
and Abish, 742	memory and memories:	Midwest: histories, 494
and Ashbery, 651	literary treatments	Midwest: literary treatments,
and Barthelme, 737	Cather, 363–4	19th century, 259,
and Dorn, 635	Miller, 704	296–8
in Faulkner, 447	Morrison, 693	Midwest: literary treatments,
in Fitzgerald, 438–9	Native American writers,	20th century
and Hemingway, 446	802–17	early, 369–73, 479, 576–7,
and Howe, 749	Stein, 429–30	597
and Johnson, 685	Williams, 707–8	New Journalism, 725
in Melville, 207–14	see also nostalgia; past	postwar novels, 606,
and Moore, 417	The Men of Brewster Place	607–8
and Morrison, 693	(Naylor), 699	Miles, Josephine, 421
in Of Plymouth Plantation,	Mencken, H. L., 368, 540	military: literary treatments,
33–4	Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro,	727–8
in O’Neill, 458–63	22	see also war
and Pynchon, 731–2	mental illness	The Milk Train Doesn’t
in Robinson, 375–9	and beat poets, 641	Stop Here Anymore
Whitman on, 235–7	and Exley, 726–7	(Williams), 710–11
in Winthrop, 36	and Kesey, 661–3	Millay, Edna St Vincent,
and Zukofsky, 393	psychosis, 750–1	420–1
media: literary treatments,	and Salinger, 660–1	Miller, Arthur, 702–7
616–17, 799	and Thompson, 750–1	Miller, Henry, 654, 658–9
‘Meditations of an Old	Williams on, 707	Miller, Jason, 719
Woman’ (Roethke),	Meridian (Walker), 696	Miller, Joaquin, 259
586–7	‘Merlin’ (Emerson), 134,	Milner, Ron, 688
melopoeia, 398	135	Milton, John, 315
Melville, Herman, 207–14	Merrill, James, 581, 652–3	mime, 712
Crane’s poem to, 428	Merwin, W. S., 566, 574, 579	Minatoya, Lydia, 797
and Hawthorne, 200–1,	Meshugah (Singer), 763, 764	mining: literary treatments,
209	Messerli, Douglas, 745	258, 372
and human behaviour,	messianic impulse: literary	‘The Minister’s Black Veil’
34	treatments, 760, 763	(Hawthorne), 202
inﬂuence, 619	Metacomet (King Philip),	The Minister’s Wooing
inﬂuences on, 132, 209–10	154	(Stowe), 200
Olson on, 630	Method acting, 702	‘Miniver Cheevy’
precursors, 99, 111	Mexican Americans	(Robinson), 377
quoted, ix	19th century, 247	Minnie’s Sacriﬁce (Harper),
The Member of the Wedding	Chicano/a writers, 771–80	183
(McCullers), 624	corridos, 321–2	Mirikitani, Janice, 795–6

Index

875

miscegenation: literary	Objectivism, 393–5	moral relativism: literary
treatments	poetry, 388–429, 518–20,	treatments
Brown, 186–7	528	Berger, 738–9
Chesnut, 173–4	prose, 429–53, 516–20,	crime novels, 752–4, 756
Chesnutt, 280–1	792	Morales, Alejandro, 779
Child, 176	Vorticism, 389	Morales, Aurora Levins, 782
Douglass, 146	Mohr, Nicholasa, 783	Morales, Rosa, 782
Grimké, 177–8	Momaday, N. Scott, 559,	Moran of the Lady Letty
Hellman, 491	804–8	(Norris), 300
Hopkins, 310–12	Monk, Thelonious, 673	More Die of Heartbreak
Jacobs, 148–51	Monkey, 792	(Bellow), 612
Larsen, 516–18	Monkey Bridge (Cao),	Morgan, J. Pierpoint, 248
musicals, 702	799–800	Morgeson, Cassandra (The
Southern regionalists, 270,	Monroe, Harriet, 371, 389,	Morgesons), 217–19
271	481	The Morgesons (Stoddard),
The Miss Firecracker Contest	Monroe, Marilyn, 604, 706	217–19
(Henley), 720	Monsieur Motte (King), 270	Mori, Kyoko, 797
Miss Lonelyhearts (West),	monsters, in Native American	Mori, Toshio, 793
550–2	stories, 10–11	Moriarty, Dean (On the
Miss Ravenel’s Conversion	Mont-Saint-Michel and	Road), 655
from Secession to Loyalty	Chartres (Adams), 318,	Morning Chronicle, 105
(Forest), 287	319, 320	Morris, Wright, 607–8
missions, Christian, see	Montage of a Dream Deferred	Morrison, Toni, 691–5
conversion to	(Hughes), 523	and Hurston, 516
Christianity	Montagu, Elizabeth	on immigrants’ effect on
Mississippi: literary	Robinson, 62	literature, 329, 563
treatments, 125, 250–6,	Monthly Magazine and	and Williams, 684
270	American Review,	mortality, see death
Mitchell, Margaret, 533,	98	Morton, Sarah Wentworth,
546–9	Moods (Alcott), 313	62, 92
Mixquiahuala Letters	Moody, William Vaughn,	Morton, Thomas, 37–9
(Castillo), 779	299, 454	Moses, Man of the Mountains
Moby-Dick (Melville), 207,	The Moon, 351	(Hurston), 515
208, 209–13	Moon-Calf (Dell), 372	Mosley, Walter, 756
Emerson’s inﬂuence, 132	Moore, Marianne, 393,	Mosquitoes (Faulkner), 448,
inﬂuence, 685, 733	416–19, 422, 545	449
precursors, 111	and Bishop, 582, 583	Mosses from an Old Manse
A Modell of Christian Charity	and Stevens, 411	(Hawthorne), 203, 209
(Winthrop), 35–6	Mora, Pat, 780	‘The Most of It’ (Frost),
Modern Chivalry	moral purpose	383
(Brackenridge), 95–6	in Cheever, 605	The Mother’s Book (Child),
A Modern Instance	early 20th-century poetry,	175
(Howells), 283	374	The Moths and Other Stories
A Modern Mephistopheles	early novels, 92–5, 96	(Viramontes), 779–80
(Alcott), 313	Emerson on, 133	Motley, John Lothrop, 113
Modernism	in Hawthorne, 201, 207	The Mound Builders
deﬁnition, 340	in Miller, 702–7	(Wilson), 717
drama, 455–63	in Olson, 631	‘Mountain Building’ (Cruz),
Imagism, 388–97	and Stowe, 200	781

876

Index

Mourning Becomes Electra	musicals, 702	myths and legends: Native
(O’Neill), 458, 460–1	musicians: literary treatments,	American, 4–18, 153–4,
Mourning Dove, 344, 506,	690, 816–17	326, 509
508–9	My Ántonia (Cather), 344,	Erdrich’s use of, 811–13
A Movie Star Has to Star in	362–4	Harjo’s use of, 804
Black and White	‘My Burial Place’ ( Jeffers),	Momaday’s use of, 806
(Kennedy), 688	388	Vizenor’s use of, 813–15
The Moviegoer (Percy), 617	My Heart’s in the Highlands
The Moving Target	(Saroyan), 457	NAACP, see National
(Macdonald), 752	My Life (Hejinian), 744–5	Association for the
‘Mr Flood’s Party’ (Robinson),	My Life by Water (Niedecker),	Advancement of
377–8	396	Colored People
Mr Sammler’s Planet (Bellow),	‘My Lost Youth’ (Longfellow),	Nabokov, Vladimir, 601,
610, 612–13, 766	229	729, 741, 768–71
‘Mrs Adolphus Smith	My Mother’s Body (Piercy),	The Naked and the Dead
Sporting the “Blue	767–8	(Mailer), 602–3
Stocking”’ (Fern), 179	Myrdal, Gunnar, 525	Naked Genius (Horton), 164
Mrs. Spring Fragrance	The Mysterious Stranger	The Naked Lunch
(Eaton), 335	(Twain), 256–7	(Burroughs), 656–7
muckrakers, 330–1	mystery novels, 112, 751–7	The Names: A Memoir
Mukherjee, Bharati, 786–7,	see also crime novels;	(Momaday), 806
800–1	thrillers	Nanapush (Tracks), 812–13
Mules and Men (Hurston),	mysticism	Narrative of Sojourner Truth
514	and Duncan, 635–6	(Truth), 181, 182
Mumbo Jumbo (Reed), 681,	and Modernist poets, 424,	Narrative of the Life of
682	427–9	Frederick Douglass
Munsey, Frank A., 539	and Silko, 808–9	(Douglass), 145–7, 148
murder: literary treatments,	and Toomer, 520	narrators
122, 724–6, 750–1, 807,	myths and legends	African American, 354
814–15	Baraka on, 689	in Barth, 733
see also crime novels	Delany’s use of, 761	in Brown, 97–8
‘The Murders in the Rue	Ellison on, 676	in Ellis, 758
Morgue’ (Poe), 122	Jeffers’s use of, 385–7	in James, 288, 295
Murfree, Mary Noailles,	Kingston’s use of, 789–92	and Nabokov, 770
269	Le Sueur’s use of, 492–3	Narváez, Pánﬁlo de, 24
Murray, Albert, 682, 683–4	in postwar poetry, 565–6	Nash, Ogden, 423, 544
Murray, Judith Sargent,	Pound’s use of, 398	Nassagansett people, 40,
80–1, 94	Roethke’s use of, 586	50–1
music	Rukeyser’s use of, 425	Nathan, George Jean, 368,
African American, 523–4,	Updike’s use of, 615	540
526, 530–1	West’s use of, 551	Nation, 282
African American,	myths and legends: American,	Nation of Islam, 663, 679
inﬂuence, 669–70	105–29	National Anti-Slavery
and Bullins, 689	baseball, 609	Standard, 176
and Knight, 671	Berger on, 739	National Association for
Latin American, literary	Kopit on, 713	the Advancement of
treatments, 785	Mamet on, 719	Colored People
rock and roll, 556	Shepard on, 717	(NAACP), 351, 352, 353
see also blues; jazz	Westerns, 537–9	National Era, 195

Index

877

National Negro Business	see also Native Americans:	Melville, 210
League, 349	writings and narratives	Moore, 419
National Negro Convention,	Native Americans: writings	naturalists, 300, 302, 303,
163	and narratives	307
Native Americans	18th century, 81–3	New York poets, 649
Columbus on, 1–2	19th century, 152–8,	Niedecker, 396
conversion to Christianity,	260–1, 322	Oppen, 395
21–3, 31, 52–3	ﬁrst female autobiography,	postmodernists, 734
cultural disorientation,	325–6	Snyder, 640
324–6	ﬁrst novel, 505	Taylor, 47
culture, 324–5	ﬁrst novel by woman, 509	Thoreau, 138–44
Dwight on, 89–90	oral traditions, 4–18, 152,	Twain, 255
ﬁrst use of term, 156	153–4, 326	see also ecology and
Franklin on, 72	regionalist, 260–1	environment; pastoral
Freneau on, 89	Native Americans: writings	themes and pastoralism
Fuller on, 136	and narratives: 20th	Nature (Emerson), 130,
history, 154	century, 324–6, 344,	131–3, 135
Jefferson on, 78	505–9, 559, 802–17	‘Nature’ (Longfellow), 229
and Le Sueur, 493, 494	crime novels and thrillers,	Navajo people, 9
Mather on, 50–1	756–7	Naylor, Gloria, 698–9
newspapers, 104, 261	short stories, 509	Neal, John, 112
Parkman on, 114, 115	songs, 322, 326	Neal, Larry, 558
and the Revolution, 81–3	Native Son (Wright), 347,	‘The Negro Artist and the
rights, 324–6	532, 535–6	Racial Mountain’
and Spanish, 18–25	Native Speaker (Lee), 757	(Hughes), 522
Thoreau on, 143	The Natural (Malamud), 609	The Negro Christianized
Wounded Knee massacre,	naturalism, 299–308	(Mather), 52–3
322, 325, 559	deﬁnition, 286, 300	‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’
Native Americans:	Hansberry on, 686	(Hughes), 524–5
conditions	nature	Nelson, David, 668, 669–70
19th century, 247–8	Native Americans’	Nemerov, Howard, 567, 582,
20th century, 341–2, 559	relationship with,	727
assimilation, 247–8, 324,	17–18, 40, 324	Neruda, Pablo, 782
325	nature: literary treatments	A Nest of Ninnies (Ashbery
land dispossessions, 102–3,	Adams (Henry), 318–19	and Schuyler), 650
157–8	Adams (Léonie), 422	Neville, Morgan, 125
postwar popularity and	Anaya, 776	The New Atlantis (Le Guin),
importance, 562	Cervantes, 773	761
Native Americans: literary	Cooper, 110	New Challenge, 532
treatments	Copway, 155	New Criticism, 466–7, 471,
18th century, 59	Crèvecoeur, 73	652
19th century, 109–10, 113,	Dickey, 476–7	New England
115–18, 175, 176, 224,	Dickinson, 240, 241	colonization, 29, 31,
228	Eliot, 405	35–7
20th century, 371, 738–9	Emerson, 130, 131–5	and Creeley, 633–4
captivity narratives, 24–5,	Frost, 379–81, 383	literary treatments, 261–5,
29–31, 50–1, 52	Jeffers, 384–8	460, 532
in colonial writings, 37–41	Knight, 56	Mather’s history, 53–4
postwar novels, 606, 662	Longfellow, 229	suffrage, 55

878

Index

waning of Puritan	Laviera, 781	Nine Worthies, 105
inﬂuence, 55	McKay, 513	1919 (Dos Passos), 440,
work ethic, 58	Naylor, 698	441–2
A New England Nun	O’Hara, 648, 649	Nisei Daughter (Sone), 793–4
(Freeman), 264–5	Paley, 625	Nixon, Richard, 555, 560–1
The New England Primer, 42,	Reznikoff, 395–6	noir ﬁction, 750–1
43–4	Simon, 719–20	The No-No Boy (Okada),
A New England Tale	Wharton, 355, 356–8	794–5
(Sedgwick), 115, 116	New York poets, 645–53, 748	Norman, Marsha, 720
New English Canaan	New York trilogy (Auster),	Norris, Frank, 298, 300–3,
(Morton), 37–9	617, 618	365
New Found Land (MacLeish),	Newfoundland: literary	North American Review, 231,
484	treatments, 629	289, 318
A New Home (Kirkland),	newspapers	North Carolina, Byrd on, 59
215–16	19th century, 104, 157,	North Georgia Review, 490
New Journalism, 604, 723–5,	249	The North Star, 148, 163, 184
728	alternative culture, 680	North Star Country (Le
A New Life (Malamud), 609	anti-slavery, 176	Sueur), 494
The New Masses, 348, 372,	Jewish, 328	Northern Lights (O’Brien),
487–8, 489, 534, 546	Native American, 104,	727
The New Negro (Locke),	261	Northup, Solomon, 185
509–11, 514	Newton, Benjamin F., 239	Norton, Charles Eliot, 231,
New Negro movement,	‘next to god of course america’	289
342–3, 509–27	(cummings), 423	nostalgia
New York City	Nexus (Miller), 658	early 20th-century
19th-century development,	‘Nick and the Candlestick’	prevalence, 343–5
246	(Plath), 581	reasons for prevalence,
African American history	Nick of the Woods (Bird),	257
of, 353	112–13	nostalgia: literary treatments
and Howells, 285	Niedecker, Lorine, 395, 396	Cather, 363–4
origin of Gotham	Nielsen, Helen, 752	Fitzgerald, 437
nickname, 105	The Nigger (Sheldon), 454	Jewett, 261–4
and theatre, 701–2, 703,	Nigger Heaven (Van Vechten),	Southern regionalists, 266,
712	513	267–9
New York City: literary	’night, Mother (Norman),	Stickney, 298
treatments	720	traditionalists, 463–78
Arenas, 786	A Night in Acadie (Chopin),	Twain, 250–7
Auster, 618	270–1	Wolfe, 495–7
Bellow, 766	The Night of the Iguana	see also past
Berrigan, 650	(Williams), 710	Notebook (Lowell), 590, 591
Capote, 724–5	Night Over Taos (Anderson),	Notes for Echo Lake (Palmer),
Chu, 787	456	748
Doctorow, 608	Night Rider (Warren), 473–4	Notes on the State of Virginia
Dos Passos, 441	Nightwood (Barnes), 434–5	(Jefferson), 77–8
Hijuelos, 785	nihilism	Notes Toward a Supreme
Himes, 755–6	and Gardner, 739	Fiction (Stevens), 411,
Irving, 105–6	in naturalist works, 304	416
Jen, 789	see also alienation;	le nouveau roman, 741, 742
Kincaid, 701	existentialism	Nova (Delany), 761

Index

879

novels	immigrant, 328–9, 331–2,	The Octopus (Norris), 300,
dime novels, 249, 537–40	333, 500, 503–4	301–3
fact as basis of, 93, 95, 98	Latina, 783, 784, 785–6	‘Ode to Sequoya’ (Posey),
ﬁrst African American,	Modernist, 432, 433–53,	260
184	516–20	‘Ode to the Confederate
ﬁrst African American	muckrakers, 330–2	Dead’ (Tate), 470
detective, 512	Native American, 505–9,	Oden, G. C., 665
ﬁrst by African American	804–17	Odets, Clifford, 456, 457–8
woman, 193–4	naturalist, 298–308	Odyssey Theatre, 712
ﬁrst by African American	popular, 537–52	Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck),
woman to sell	postmodern, 728–42	497
1 million-plus, 532	postwar, 601–29, 650,	Of One Blood (Hopkins),
ﬁrst Japanese American,	654–63, 726–8	310
794	prophetic, 495–9	Of Plymouth Plantation
ﬁrst Native American, 505	radicals, 488–90, 491–2,	(Bradford), 32–4
ﬁrst by Native American	494	Of Time and the River
woman, 509	science ﬁction, 601, 602,	(Wolfe), 495, 496
James on, 290	758–62, 814–15	Of Women and Their
realism, 250	traditionalist, 475–7	Elegance (Mailer),
novels: 18th century, 92–9	women, see women:	604
novels: 19th century	writings, 20th century	‘Off from Swing Shift’
African American, 183–94	nuclear weapons and war,	(Hongo), 796
early, 107–18, 175	555–6	‘Often I Am Permitted to
late, 249, 318	literary treatments, 580–1,	Return to a Meadow’
mid-, 168–9, 171–3, 176,	760, 809	(Duncan), 636
180, 194–214	Nugent, Elliot, 545	Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s
realist, 282–96	Nuyorican Poets Café, 772,	Hung You in the Closet
regionalist, 250–7, 261–4,	780	and I’m Feelin’ So Sad
267, 269–74, 276–8, 281 Nye, Naomi Shihab, 598, 599		(Kopit), 712–13
women, 214–16, 217–20,		Oh What a Paradise It Seems
309, 310–14, 315–16,	‘O City, City’ (Schwartz),	(Cheever), 605
323–4	575	O’Hara, Frank, 645–9,
novels: 20th century	O-gî-mäw-kwe Mit-i-gwä-ki	649–51, 665
African American, 352–5,	(Pokagon), 505	O’Hara, John, 604, 702
510, 511–22, 532–6,	O Pioneers! (Cather), 362	O’Hara, Scarlett (Gone With
674–8, 680–6, 691–701	Oakley, Dorinda (Barren	the Wind), 547–8
Asian American, 787,	Ground), 360	oil industry, 248
788–93, 794–5,	Oates, Joyce Carol, 624–5	Ojibwa people
797–801	Objectivism, 393–5	history and culture, 155
beat, 654–8	O’Brien, Tim, 618, 727	stories, 152, 153
Black Arts, 666	Observations (Moore), 393	Okada, John, 794–5
Chicano/a, 773–7, 779–80	O’Casey, Sean, 687	Okanogan people, 6, 508–9
detective and thrillers,	Occom, Samson, 82–3	Oklahoma! (Rodgers and
540–2, 750–8	‘An Occurrence at Owl	Hammerstein), 702
early, 326, 347, 355–73	Creek Bridge’ (Bierce),	old age: literary treatments
European immigrant,	287	Holmes, 230
763–4, 766–7, 768–71	O’Connor, Flannery, 621–3,	Longfellow, 229
Fugitives, 469, 473–5	737	Miller, 706
‘hardboiled’, 541–4	October Light (Gardner), 739	Roethke, 587

880

Index

Old Creole Days (Cable),	O’Neill, Eugene, 458–63,	Orpheus Descending
274–6	487, 701	(Williams), 707, 710
Old Indian Legends (Bonnin),	Onoto Watanna, see Eaton,	Ortiz, Simon, 802
326	Winnifred	Osage people, 805
‘The Old Order’ (Porter),	‘The Open Boat’ (Crane),	Osgood, Frances Sargent,
432–3	305	225–6
Old Washington (Spofford),	Open House (Roethke), 585	Other Voices, Other Rooms
314	Open Theatre, 712	(Capote), 724
Olds, Sharon, 599, 600	Oppen, George, 393, 394–5	otherness: literary treatments
Oldtown Fireside Stories	Opportunity, 518, 525, 527	Eliot, 405–6
(Stowe), 200	Oral History (Smith), 627	Faulkner, 450–2
Oldtown Folks (Stowe), 200	orality	regionalists, 269
Oleander (Mamet), 718	African American, 86	see also alienation
Olenska, Ellen (The Age of	and Baraka, 666	‘Our America’ (Martí), 323
Innocence), 357–8	blues, 530	‘Our Greatest Want’ (Harper),
Olsen, Tillie, 482, 764–5	corridos, 321–2	183
Olson, Charles, 629–32,	and Faulkner, 447	Our Nig (Wilson), 193–4
645–6, 665, 673, 749	folksongs, 222–4	Our Old Home (Hawthorne),
Omensetter’s Luck (Gass),	and Gaines, 683	206
606	and Hinojosa, 777	Our Town (Wilder), 456
Omoo (Melville), 208	Hispanic Southwest,	‘Out, Out –’ (Frost), 382–3
‘On a Soldier Fallen in the	158–60	The Outsider (Wright), 536
Philippines’ (Moody),	and Hurston, 514–15	‘The Oven Bird’ (Frost), 382
299	and Knight, 672	‘The Over-Soul’ (Emerson),
‘On Being Brought from	and Laviera, 781	130
Africa to America’	and Native Americans,	Overland Monthly, 258, 333
(Wheatley), 87–8	4–18, 152, 322, 326,	The Owl Answers (Kennedy),
‘On Hearing of the Intention	802–17	688
of a Gentleman to	performance poetry, 664,	Oxata (Hejinian), 747
Purchase the Poet’s	669–70, 673, 771–3, 781	Oxherding Tale (Johnson),
Freedom’ (Horton),	and postwar novels, 627	685
163	and Shange, 673	Ozick, Cynthia, 766
‘On Leaving California’	spirituals, 220–2
(Taylor), 258–9	order	Padgett, Ron, 649
On Newfound River (Page),	Adams on, 318–21	Page, Thomas Nelson, 250,
267	and Eliot, 405	267, 268
‘On the Duty of Civil	and Stevens, 411–12	Pai, Margaret K., 798
Disobedience’	‘Oread’ (H. D.), 390–1	Paine, Thomas, 74–6, 80
(Thoreau), 142–3	O’Regan, Teague (Modern	‘A Pair of Silk Stockings’
‘On the Equality of the	Chivalry), 95–6	(Chopin), 271
Sexes’ (Murray), 81	The Oregon Trail (Parkman),	Pal Joey (Hammerstein,
On the Road (Kerouac), 556,	113–15	Kaufman and Hart),
641, 654, 655–6	Origin, 632	702
On Trial (Rice), 455	origin, myths of, see creation	Pale Fire (Nabokov), 768
Oñate, Juan de, 23	Orlovsky, Peter, 645	Pale Horse, Pale Rider
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s	Ormond (Brown), 96, 98	(Porter), 432, 433
Nest (Kesey), 661–3	orphanhood, Forrest on,	Paley, Grace, 625, 767
One Hour (Smith), 490	686	Palmer, Michael, 747, 748
Oneida people, 803	Orpheus (Rukeyser), 425	Papago people, 6

Index

881

‘Papermill’ (Kalar), 482	pastoral themes and	‘Persephone’ (Le Sueur),
Papp, Joseph, 722	pastoralism	492–3
Paradise (Morrison), 694,	18th-century poetry, 63–4,	Person, Place and Thing
695	89–90	(Shapiro), 565
Paradise, Sal (On the Road),	in Byrd, 57–8	Personal Narrative (Edwards),
655	in Cather, 363	66
Paredes, Américo, 771	in Cooper, 109	personality, Ashbery on, 652
Paretsky, Sara, 754–5	in images of the South,	Personism, 647–8
Parker, Charlie, 633, 666,	169–70	Petry, Ann, 531, 532
672, 673	in Jewett, 264	phanopoeia, 399
Parker, Dorothy, 348, 545,	in McCarthy, 618	Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart,
546, 549	in Roth, 614	315–16
Parker, Robert B., 754	The Pat Hobby Stories	Philadelphia Fire (Wideman),
Parker, Theodore, 135	(Fitzgerald), 439–40	685
Parkman, Francis, 113–15,	Patchen, Kenneth, 482,	Philip II, king of Spain, 22
155	485–6	Philip, King (Metacomet),
The Partisan Leader (Tucker),	Paterson (Williams), 392,	154
172	409–11	Philippines, immigration
Partisan Review, 348, 534	The Pathﬁnder (Cooper),	from, 503
Passamaqoddy people, 11, 14	108–9	writings, 504, 798–9
Passing (Larsen), 516, 517–18	Patrick, Robert, 719	Phillips, David Graham,
‘The Passing of Grandison’	Patternist series (Butler), 762	330–1
(Chesnutt), 280–1	Paul Kauvar (Mackaye), 454	Phillips, Jayne Anne, 626–7,
‘A Passionate Pilgrim’	Paulding, James Kirke, 105,	726, 727
(James), 289	124	Phillips, Wendell, 146, 164,
past: literary treatments	Pavelka, Anna, 362	165, 171
Alexei, 816–17	Pawnee people, 109	philosophical writings, 18th
Berger, 739	Payne, John Howard, 453	century, 67–8
Bradley, 686	Peabody, Elizabeth, 135, 136	The Piano Lesson (Wilson),
Cather, 363–4	Peabody, Sophia, 203	690
Eliot, 402	Pearl (The Scarlet Letter),	The Piazza Tales (Melville),
Faulkner, 345, 448	203, 204, 206	213–14
Fugitives, 463–75	The Pearl of Orr’s Island	picaresque narratives
Jeffers, 385–7	(Stowe), 200	19th century, 253–6
Macdonald, 753	Peckham, Sir George, 26	20th century, 676
Miller, 703, 704	Pecquot people, 34	Revolutionary period,
Morris, 607–8	The Penitent (Singer), 763,	95–6
Morrison, 692, 693, 694	764	Picasso, Pablo, 430, 431
Reed, 681	Pennington, James W. C.,	Picture Bride (Song), 787–8
Shepard, 716	185	Pictures of Country Life (Cary),
Stegner, 606–7	Percy, Walker, 617	216–17
Walker, 696	Perelman, Bob, 744, 745, 746	Pictures of Fidelman
Welty, 620	Perelman, S. J., 544–5	(Malamud), 609
Whitman, 234	The Pérez Family (Bell), 786	Pictures of the Floating World
Wideman, 685	Performance Group, 712	(Lowell), 389
Wilson (August), 690	performance poetry, 664,	Pierce, Franklin, 202
Wilson (Lanford), 717	669–70, 673, 771–3, 781	Piercy, Marge, 767–8
Wolfe, 496–7	periodicals, see journals and	Pierre (Melville), 207–8, 213
see also history; nostalgia	periodicals	Pierrepoint, Sarah, 68

882

Index

Pietri, Pedro, 780–1	‘The Poet’ (Emerson), 134	poetry: 19th century
The Pilot (Cooper), 108	The Poet at the Breakfast	African American, 163–4,
Pima people, 10, 13	Table (Holmes), 230	183
Pink and White Tyranny	poetry	early and mid-, 119–21,
(Stowe), 200	Ashbery on, 651–2	166–8, 169, 214,
Pinsky, Robert, 597–8	Ciardi on, 575	224–44
The Pioneers (Cooper), 108,	Crane on, 426, 427	late, 258–61, 265–7
109	cummings on, 422–3	Native American, 152–3
The Pit (Norris), 301	Dugan on, 575	poetry: 20th century
A Place to Come To (Warren),	Duncan on, 635–6	African American, 353,
474	Emerson on, 132–3,	512–13, 518–20,
‘Plain Language from Truthful	134–5	522–30, 532–3
James’ (Harte), 258	Ferlinghetti on, 637	African American protest,
Plain Song (Morris), 607,	Franklin on, 62	664–74
608	Frost on, 379–81	Asian American, 502–3,
‘A Plan for Romantic	Ginsberg on, 642, 643	787–8, 795–6, 800
Fiction’ (Norris), 300	Ignatow on, 575	beat poets, 641–5
plantation romances and	language poets on, 742–9	Black Arts movement,
novels, 171–3, 533,	magazines, 371, 388, 393,	664–8
546–9, 621	411	Black Mountain writers,
and Styron, 606	Merrill on, 653	629–37
The Planter’s Northern Bride	Moore on, 418	Chicano/a, 771–3, 780
(Hentz), 171–3	O’Hara on, 645–6	comic, 544
Plath, Sylvia, 568, 573, 578,	Olson on, 629–30	early, 298–9, 300, 303,
593–6, 581	Poe on, 119–20	353, 373–88
Play It As It Lays (Didion),	Pound on, 388–90, 397,	Fugitives, 464–6, 467–9,
628	398	470–3
plays, see drama	Puritans on, 41, 62	Imagism, 388–97
Plexus (Miller), 658	Rexroth on, 482–3	language poetry, 742–9
The Plum Pickers (Barrio),	(Riding) Jackson on,	Latino/a, 780, 782–3
774	426	Modernism, 388–429,
Plus (McElroy), 740	Rukeyser on, 425	518–20, 528
Plymouth Plantation, 32–4,	Spicer on, 638–9	Native American, 802–4,
37	Stein on, 431	806, 808, 815
Pocahontas, 30–1, 453	Stevens on, 412–13	naturalist, 303
Pocho (Villareal), 773–4	Schwartz on, 575	New York poets, 645–53
Podhoretz, Norman, 641–2	Stafford on, 575	Objectivism, 393–5
Poe, Edgar Allan, 104,	Whitman on, 235–7	performance, 664, 669–70,
118–24	Wilbur on, 566–7	673, 771–3, 781
inﬂuence, 651	Williams on, 408	populist, 479–81
on Longfellow, 228	Zukofsky on, 393	postmodernist, 742–9
Lowell on, 231	poetry: 17th and 18th	postwar, 564–600, 659
and Osgood, 225	centuries	postwar immigrant, 767–8
‘Poem About My Rights’	18th century, 60–4	radicals, 481–6, 494–5
(Jordan), 671	African American, 62, 78,	realist, 298–9, 300
‘A Poem for Myself ’ (Knight),	86–8	San Francisco Renaissance,
671	colonial, 41–9	637–40
Poems on Several Occasions	Revolutionary period,	traditionalist, 475–8
(Evans), 61	86–91	Vorticism, 389

Index

883

‘Poetry’ (Moore), 418	Pop. 1280 (Thompson), 751	Powers, J. F., 727
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,	population, 19th century,	Powhatan people, 30–1
371, 388, 393, 411, 479	100, 246	The Prairie (Cooper), 108,
Poganuc People (Stowe), 200	populism, early 20th century,	109, 110, 111
Poictesme novels (Cabell),	478–81	‘The Prairies’ (Bryant), 227
368–9	Porgy (Heyward), 454	Praise to the End (Roethke),
‘A Point at Issue’ (Chopin),	‘The Portent’ (Melville),	586
271	214	Precaution (Cooper), 108
Pokagon, Simon, 505	Porter, Katherine Anne,	Prejudices (Mencken), 368
Poland: literary treatments,	432–3	Prelude (Wordsworth),
763	Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth),	236
Polaroid (Coolidge), 743	613–14	Preparatory Meditations
The Political Economy of	‘Portrait’ (Bogan), 421	before My Approach
Slavery (Rufﬁn), 169	The Portrait of a Lady (James),	to the Lords Supper
‘A Political Litany’ (Freneau),	288, 291–4, 296	(Taylor), 48–9
88–9	Posey, Alexander Lawrence,	Prescott, William Hinckling,
politics	260–1	113
20th-century growth in	Posey, George (The Heroes),	The Present State of Virginia
literature to promote	469–70	(Jones), 57
causes, 558–9	Possessing the Secret of Joy	The Presidential Papers
20th-century radicals and	(Walker), 697–8	(Mailer), 600
populists, 478–95	The Postman Always Rings	Presley (The Octopus ), 300,
African American, 512–14,	Twice (Cain), 543	302
515–16, 534, 536	postmodernism, 563–4, 740	The Price (Miller), 706
African American protest	deﬁnition, 558	The Price of Parthia (Godfrey),
poetry, 663–74	immigrant writings, 766,	453
and Gold, 488	768, 777	pride: literary treatments
and Hemingway, 444	Native American writings,	Cable, 277
and Hurston, 515–16	814–15	Hawthorne, 202, 203
and McKay, 512–14	poetry, 742–9	primitivism
and Native Americans,	prose, 616–17, 618,	and Dickey, 476–7
802–17	728–42	in naturalists, 300, 301,
in naturalist works, 298–9,	and science ﬁction, 762	306, 307
301–3, 305–6	poststructuralism, 741,	in Roethke, 585–6
political novels, 608	742–3	The Princess Casamassima
political poetry, 635	Pound, Ezra, 347, 397–402	(James), 294
and Wright, 534, 536	and Frost, 379	prison life: literary treatments,
see also civil rights	and Hemingway, 445	672
movement;	and Imagism, 388–90	The Prisoner of Sex (Mailer),
Communism;	inﬂuence, 484, 646	604
democracy; feminism;	and Objectivism, 393	private eyes, see detective
government, American;	and Vorticism, 389	stories and novels
Marxism; socialism	on Whitman, 232, 237	The Pro-Slavery Argument,
Pollock, Jackson, 633, 651	power	170–1
polyphonic prose, 389, 396	Mailer on, 603–4	Proctor, John (The Crucible),
Pomo people, 14	naturalists on, 300–8	705–6
Pontellier, Edna (The	Rukeyser on, 424–5	‘Proem’ (Whittier), 166–7
Awakening), 271–4	The Power of Sympathy	The Professor at the Breakfast
Poor White (Anderson), 373	(Brown), 92–3	Table (Holmes), 230

884

Index

progress	Puritans and Puritanism	Mitchell, 547, 548–9
Southern regionalists on,	captivity narratives, 50–2	Oates, 625
267	and Catholicism, 51–2	Sheldon, 454
and US economy, 246	challenges to, 36–41	Smith, 490
and Westerns, 538, 539	conspiracy theory, 52	Southern regionalists, 268,
prohibition, 343–4	and Hawthorne, 200, 201,	270
projectivist poetry, see Black	203, 204, 206	Twain, 254
Mountain writers	and Lowell, 587, 588	Warren, 471–2
proletarian literature, 487,	on poetry, 41	see also African Americans;
488	poetry by, 42–4, 47–9	Hispanics; immigrant
The Promised Land (Antin),	values, 68–9	experience; Mexican
329	waning of inﬂuence, 55–6	Americans; Native
protest, postwar, 559–61	writings, 32–6, 52–4	Americans; slavery
African American writing,	‘Putting the good things	racial stereotyping
663–74, 688–90	away’ (Piercy), 767	in Hopkins, 311
literary treatments, 604	Puyat, Pauline (Tracks), 812	in Poe, 118–19
Proulx, E. Annie, 628, 629	Pynchon, Thomas, 729–33,	in Stowe, 198–9
Proust, Marcel, 432	742	radicalism, 20th century,
Providence, Rhode Island, 39		481–95
Provincetown Players, 434,	Quakers, 65, 167	radio, spread of, 337–8
459, 488	Queen, Ellery (Frederic	Ragtime (Doctorow), 608
provincial life: literary	Dannay), 541	railroads
treatments, 368–73, 471	Queenborough trilogy,	initial effects, 101
‘Prufrock, The Love Song of	359–60	late 19th century, 246
J. Arthur’ (Eliot), 403,	Queer (Burroughs), 656	literary treatments, 301–2
404	Queneau, Raymond, 741	Rain of Gold (Villaseñor),
Prynne, Hester (The Scarlet	Quicksand (Larsen), 516–17	779
Letter), 203, 204, 205	Quiet Odyssey (Lee), 798	Rainey, Ma, 526, 531
Pseudopodia, 490	Quinney, John Wannuaucon,	Raining Backwards
psychosis: literary treatments,	156	(Fernandez), 786
750–1	Quotations from Chairman	A Raisin in the Sun
see also mental illness	Mao (Albee), 714	(Hansberry), 687
The Public Burning (Coover),		Rakosi, Carl, 393
740–1	Rabbit novels (Updike), 614,	Ransom, John Crowe, 344,
Public Theatre, 722	616	419, 464, 466, 467–9
publishing industry	Rabe, David, 719	and Hecht, 582
19th century, 104, 249,	race issues and relations	and Tate, 470
268, 537	1919 riots, 510, 512–13	and Warren, 473
20th century, 539–40, 750,	early 20th century, 342,	rapping, 669, 670
753	344	Rauschenberg, Robert, 647
Pudd’nhead Wilson, The	lynching, 512	Rave (Broumas), 600
Tragedy of (Twain), 256	South, 19th century, 247	‘The Raven’ (Poe), 120, 123
Puerto Rican Obituary (Pietri),	race issues and relations:	Raven the Great (Tsimshian
780–1	literary treatments	character), 9
Puerto Rican Americans:	Albee, 713	Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan,
writings, 780–3	detective novels and	355
pulp magazines, 539–40,	thrillers, 755–7	Rawlins, Ezekiel ‘Easy’
750	Douglas, 627	(Mosley character), 756
Purdy, James, 617	Lewis, 371	Ray (Hannah), 727

Index

885

Ray (Home to Harlem), 513	O’Connor, 621–3	and Tate, 470–1
readers, authors’ relationship	Welch, 811	see also Buddhism;
with	The Redskins (Cooper), 112	Catholicism;
Barth, 733	Redwood (Sedgwick), 115–16	Christianity; Islam;
Barthelme, 736–7	Reed, Ishmael, 562, 680–2	spirituality
language poets, 743–4	Reed, John, 487	‘Remember’ (Harjo), 804
McClure, 639	Reed, Lou, 815	Remember to Remember
Morrison, 693–4	regionalism	(Miller), 658
Nabokov, 770	African American and	renewal: literary treatments
O’Hara, 647	Native American,	Douglass, 147
postwar poets, 567	259–61	Native American stories,
Whitman, 235–7	deﬁnition, 257	16–17
Wieners, 633	Fugitives and traditionalists,	naturalists, 302
Reagan, Ronald, 554, 561	463–77	Thoreau, 142
The Real Life of Sebastian	New England, 261–5	repetition
Knight (Nabokov), 768	South, 265–81	and Everson, 638
realism	Twain, 250–7	and Faulkner, 447–53
19th-century drama,	West and Midwest, 258–9	Hejinian on, 744–5
453–4	religion	and Le Sueur, 494
19th-century novels, 250,	in 18th-century works,	and Olson, 631
282–6	65–8	and Stein, 431
dirty realism, 601, 726–8	in 19th-century works,	and Welch, 810
domestic realism, in	195, 196, 224	and Whitman, 233–4
postwar drama, 702–12,	African American services,	The Repository (Murray),
713–14, 716–17	174	81
Hansberry on, 686	and Baldwin, 676–7	repression: literary
and New Journalists,	in colonial poetry, 42–4,	treatments
723–5	48–9	Gilman, 316–18
reality	Douglass on, 146–7	Glasgow, 359–60
Nabokov on, 768–9	in early 20th-century	Thurber, 545
Stevens on, 411–12	literature, 299	Wharton, 357–8
The Rebels (Child), 175	Edwards on emotion’s	Requiem for a Nun (Faulkner),
‘Recipe’ (Mirikitani), 795	place in, 67	447
Recollections of a Forest Life	Emerson on, 130, 133, 135	‘Requiem for the Spanish
(Copway), 155	evangelical writings, 18th	Dead’ (Rexroth), 483
The Red Badge of Courage	century, 82–3	Reservation Blues (Alexei),
(Crane), 304–5	evangelism, 55, 65–7, 102	815, 816–17
Red Rock (Page), 267	and Foote, 309–10	reservations: literary
Redburn (Melville), 208, 209	and King, 680	treatments, 815–16
The Redeemed Captive	and Lowell, 588	Resolutions (Edwards), 66
Returning to Zion	Melville on faith, 211–12,	‘A Respectable Woman’
(Williams), 51	213, 214	(Chopin), 271
redemption: literary	Native American, 40,	‘The Return of the Private’
treatments	324–5	(Garland), 297
Crane, 427	and O’Connor, 621–3	revenge: literary treatments,
Delany, 761	and O’Neill, 458–9, 462	203, 205–6
Fugitives, 464, 472–5	and Puritan writings,	Review of the Debate in the
Grey, 539	33–6, 42, 50–4	Virginia Legislature
Merrill, 653	Stevens on, 413–14	(Dew), 170

886

Index

‘The Revolt of “Mother” ’	The Rising Glory of America	Rothko, Mark, 651
(Freeman), 264, 265	(Freneau and	Roughing It (Twain), 250,
The Revolt of the Cockroach	Brackenridge), 88	251
People (Acosta), 779	‘Rites of Ancient Ripening’	Rowlandson, Mary White,
‘The Revolution Will Not	(Le Sueur), 493	50–1, 52
Be Televised’ (Scott-	Rituals of Survival (Mohr),	Rowson, Susanna Haswell,
Heron), 670	783	92, 93–4
Rexroth, Kenneth, 393,	river life: literary treatments,	Rufﬁn, Edmund, 168, 169,
482–4, 537, 641	125, 250–6	170
Reynolds, J. N., 209	Rivera, Tomás, 774–5, 776–7	Rukeyser, Muriel, 424–5
Reznikoff, Charles, 393,	Rivers, Larry, 645, 646, 647	A Rumor of War (Caputo),
395–6	Rives, Amélie, 250	728
‘Rhapsody’ (O’Hara), 648–9	The Road to Tamazunchale	Running Sketches of Men and
Rhea, Miranda (‘The Old	(Arias), 779	Places (Copway), 155–6
Order’), 432–3	‘Roan Stallion’ (Jeffers),	Runyon, Damon, 718
Rice, Elmer, 455–6, 546	385–7	rural communities: literary
Rich, Adrienne, 568, 570,	The Robber Bridegroom	treatments
572–3	(Welty), 620	19th century, 261–5,
inﬂuence, 782	Roberts, Elizabeth Madox,	266–7, 269, 297–8
and Vietnam, 579, 580	432, 433–4	20th century, 344, 376–9,
Rich, Robert, 28	Robeson, Paul, 687	497–9
‘Richard Cory’ (Robinson),	Robinson, Edwin Arlington,	in Modernist works, 396,
375–6	374–9	433–4, 447–53
Richardson, Samuel,	rock and roll, 556	postwar novels, 607–8,
inﬂuence, 96	Rockefeller, John D., 248	624
Riders of the Purple Sage	Roderick Hudson (James),	Rushing, Jimmy, 531
(Grey), 538, 539	289	Ruth Hall (Fern), 180–1
Ridge, John Rollin, 152–3,	Rodgers, Richard, 702
505	Roethke, Theodore, 573,	A Sabine Woman (Moody),
Ridge, Lula, 482	585–7	299
Riding, Laura, 464, 742	Rolfe, Edwin, 482	Safﬁn, John, 41
(Riding) Jackson, Laura, 424,	Romance, Norris on, 300–1	Salem witch trials, 52, 54
425–6	A Romance of the People	and Hawthorne, 201–2
The Rights of Man (Paine),	(Child), 176	literary treatments, 112,
75	The Romantic Comedians	705–6
Riley, James Whitcomb, 259,	(Glasgow), 359–60	Salinger, J. D., 556, 654,
261	Ronyoung, Kim, 798	659–61
Rimbaud, Arthur, 121	Roosevelt, Theodore, 330,	Salmagundi (Irving), 105
rime-breaking, 417	346, 374	Salute to Spring (Le Sueur),
‘Rip Van Winkle’ (Irving),	Rope and Faggot (White),	494
106	512	‘The Same Old Jazz’
Ripley, George, 135	Roper, Moses, 185	(McClure), 639
Ripley novels (Highsmith),	Rose, Wendy, 803–4	San Francisco Renaissance,
752	Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel:	637–40
Ripostes (Pound), 399	literary treatments, 608,	San Francisco Talk Series,
The Rise of David Levinsky	740–1	745
(Cahan), 328–9	Rosewater, Eliot, 762	Sanchez, Sonia, 558, 668,
The Rise of Silas Lapham	Roth, Henry, 347	669, 671
(Howells), 282, 283–5	Roth, Philip, 613–14	Sandburg, Carl, 371, 479–80

Index

887

Santayana, George, 413	Schuyler, James, 649, 650	secret histories
Santiago, Esmerelda, 783	Schwartz, Delmore, 568,	and Hongo, 796
Santos, Bienvenido, 799	574–5	and language poets, 744,
Sappho, 389	literary treatments, 612	749
Saroyan, William, 457	science, Adams on, 318–19,	slavery, 165, 166
Sartoris (Faulkner), 449	320	The Secret History of the
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 536, 651	science ﬁction, 601, 602,	Dividing Line (Byrd), 59
Satan in Gusay (Singer),	758–62	Sedgwick, Catharine Maria,
763	early African American,	115–18
Satanstoe (Cooper), 112	310	Segregation (Warren), 472
satire	Native American, 814–15	Selby, Hubert, 727
17th century, 38, 63	Scopes trial, 341, 465–6	self: literary treatments
19th century, 105, 231–2,	Scott, Sir Walter, inﬂuence	Aiken, 396–7
254–6	on Cooper, 108	Ammons, 577
Revolutionary period,	on Douglass, 145	Austin, 327
88–9, 95–6	on Irving, 106	Bellow, 611
satire: 20th-century	on Norris, 300	Berryman, 592–3
early and mid-, 359–60,	on Parkman, 115	Dickinson, 237–44
369–71, 511–12, 544–5	on Prescott, 113	Eliot, 404–6
postmodern novels, 738,	Scott-Heron, Gil, 670	Faulkner, 448–53
741	Scoundrel Time (Hellman),	Fitzgerald, 435
postwar novels, 601–2,	491	H. D., 391–2
604–5, 609, 650, 684,	sea novels	James, 292
724	Cooper, 108, 111, 112	Kincaid, 701
radicals, 484, 486	and Johnson, 685	Lowell, 587–90
science ﬁction as, 759–62	London, 307–8	Malamud, 609–10
Satires Against the Tories	Melville, 208, 209–13	Plath, 593–6
(Freneau, Brackenridge	Norris, 300	Porter, 432–3
and Madison), 88	sea poems, 428	postmodernists, 734
Saturday Evening Post, 540	The Sea-Wolf (London), 300,	postwar poetry, 567–73,
Savage Night (Thompson),	306, 307–8	599–600
751	‘The Seafarer’ (Pound),	Roethke, 585
The Scarlet Letter	398–9	Stevens, 414–16
(Hawthorne), 201, 202,	The Searching Wind	Walker, 697
203–6	(Hellman), 491	see also individualism
Schaefer, Jack, 538, 539	‘Season of Death’ (Rolfe),	self-help
Schneck, Stephen, 740	482	Douglass on, 147
Schomburg, Arthur A.,	‘Seasons of the Soul’ (Tate),	Emerson on, 130–5
511	471	Fitzgerald on, 438
‘School Day in Man Quang’	‘Second Fig’ (Millay), 420	Franklin on, 69–71
(Knight), 579	Second Great Awakening,	Fuller on, 136–8
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe,	102	Thoreau on, 138–44
153, 155, 228	Second World War: literary	selling: literary treatments,
Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston,	treatments	703–5, 718
153–4	Japanese American writers,	see also commodity
‘The Schooldays of an Indian	793–5	culture; consumerism;
Girl’ (Bonnin), 325	novels, 601–3, 606, 732	materialism
Schulberg, Budd, 439	poetry, 564–6, 588	The Selling of Joseph (Sewall),
Schuyler, George, 512, 526	see also Holocaust	54

888

Index

Seneca Falls Convention, 179	Shalako, 16	comic, 545–6
Sent for You Yesterday	Shane (Schaefer), 538, 539	early, 305, 334, 372–3,
(Wideman), 685	Shange, Ntozake (Paulette	499–500, 504
Sentences (Grenier), 746	Williams), 673–4	immigrant, 334, 372–3,
Seraph on the Sewanee	Shapiro, Karl, 528, 565, 567,	499–500, 504, 763,
(Hurston), 515	570–1	764–5
sermons, 18th century, 68	Shaw, Irwin, 457	Latina, 782, 783
The Serpent (van Italie), 712	The Shawl (Ozick), 766, 767	Modernist, 432–3, 435–6,
Seven Arts, 372	Sheldon, Edward, 454	439–40, 442–4
The Seven League Boots	Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 420	Native American, 509,
(Murray), 684	The Sheltered Life (Glasgow),	805, 814, 815–16
Seventeen Syllables	359–60	naturalist, 305
(Yamamoto), 793	Shepard, Sam, 713, 714–17	postmodern, 729–30, 734,
Several Poems Compiled with	Sheridan, Gen. Philip:	735–6, 740
Great Variety of Wit and	literary treatments, 817	postwar, 605, 606, 659,
Learning (Bradstreet),	Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,	661, 726, 727
45	inﬂuence, 91	radicals, 489, 492–3, 494
Sewall, Samuel, 54	Sherwood, Robert, 454, 455	science ﬁction, 760
sex and sexuality	Sherwood Anderson &	women, 619, 622–9
plantation life, 173–4	Other Famous Creoles	Show Boat (Kern and
sex and sexuality: literary	(Faulkner), 373	Hammerstein), 702
treatments	Shigekuni, Julie, 797	The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s
African American novels,	Ship of Fools (Porter), 433	Window (Hansberry),
190	The Shipping News (Proulx),	687
blues songs, 531	629	‘The Signiﬁcance of a
Bogan, 421	A Short Narration of my Last	Veteran’s Day’ (Ortiz),
Broumas, 600	Journey to the Western	802
Cain, 543	Country (Aupaumut),	Sigourney, Lydia Howard
Chopin, 271–4	81–2	Huntley, 224–5
cummings, 423	short stories	‘Silence Dogood’ papers
Delany, 762	earliest, 106	(Franklin), 71
Ginsberg, 644	ﬁrst African American,	The Silence of the Lambs
Harryman, 747	183	(Harris), 757–8
Miller, 658	short stories: 19th century	The Silent Partner (Phelps),
Native American stories,	early, 121–3	315
10, 13	late, 258, 264–5, 267–8,	The Silent South (Cable), 277
slave narratives, 146, 150	270, 274–6, 278–81,	Silko, Leslie Marmon, 805,
Wylie, 419–20	286–7, 295, 297	808–9
Sexton, Anne, 568, 570, 572,	immigrant, 328	Silliman, Ron, 745, 746
593–4	mid-, 201–2, 206–7,	Simic, Charles, 598
sexual harassment: literary	213–14, 216–17, 219–20	Simms, William Gilmore,
treatments, 718	women, 314–15, 316–18	168–9, 170
Sexual Perversity in Chicago	short stories: 20th century	Simon, Neil, 719–20
(Mamet), 717–18	African American, 512,	‘Simple Autumnal’ (Bogan),
Sexus (Miller), 658	520, 663–4, 676, 683,	421–2
Shadows on the Rock (Cather),	685	‘Simple Stories’ (Hughes),
364	Asian American, 789,	522
Shakespeare, William,	792–3	Simpson, Louis, 565, 568,
inﬂuence, 209–10	Chicana, 778–9, 779–80	570–1

Index

889

‘since feeling is ﬁrst’	Woolman on, 65	Smith, Lillian, 490
(cummings), 422	see also African Americans	snakes, in Native American
Sinclair, Upton, 329–32	slavery: abolition and	stories, 14–15, 152
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 763–4	abolitionism	Snelling, Paula, 490
Sinners in the Hands of an	19th century, 101, 103,	Snodgrass, W. D., 568, 570,
Angry God (Edwards),	104, 164–8, 175–8	571
68	abolition achieved, 245,	Snow-Bound (Whittier), 167
Sioux people	247	‘The Snow-Storm’ (Emerson),
Cooper on, 109–10	African American writers	135
history and folklore, 324	on, 83–8, 160–4, 181–2,	Snow White (Barthelme),
stories, 5, 6–7, 9–10, 12,	183–4	736–7
13, 14	and Emerson, 135	‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’
’Sippi (Killens), 684	and feminism, 178	(Hemingway), 444
Sir Rohan’s Ghost (Spofford),	and Harper, 183–4	Snyder, Gary, 639–40, 641
314	and Stowe, 195, 196–7	social change
Sister Carrie (Dreiser),	and Thoreau, 143	and Christianity, 102–3,
365–6, 367	slavery: literary treatments	164
Six Nations, 152	18th century, 62	early 20th century, 338–9
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey	19th century, 194–200,	social change: literary
Crayon, Gent. (Irving),	231–2, 254, 278–81	treatments
106	20th-century ﬁction,	early 20th century, 355–6
Sketches of Southern Life	520–2, 533, 546–9, 686,	Jewett, 261–4
(Harper), 184	693–4, 694–5	Twain, 250–7
Slaughterhouse-Five	20th-century science	social convention and
(Vonnegut), 602	ﬁction, 762	conditioning: literary
‘The Slave Mother’ (Harper),	African American 19th-	treatments
183	century ﬁction, 184–93	Austin, 327
‘The Slave Ship’ (Whittier),	secret histories, 165, 166	Chopin, 270–4
167	slave narratives, 84–5, 86,	Corso, 645
slavery	144–51, 181, 185–6	James, 289, 291–4
conversion to Christianity	slave narratives, modern	Heinlein, 759
as justiﬁcation, 86	versions, 682, 685, 693,	Herbert, 760
Crèvecoeur on, 74	699	Kesey, 662–3
Dwight on, 89–90	slave writings, 62	Lewis, 369–71
early 19th-century	‘Slavery’s Pleasant Homes’	Twain, 254–7
conditions, 101–2	(Child), 176	Wharton, 356, 357–8
Franklin on, 72	‘Slim in Hell’ (Brown), 526	socialism: literary treatments
Freneau on, 89	Slinger (Dorn), 635	early 20th century, 347,
Fuller on, 136–7	Sloan, John, 365	456
Jefferson on, 78, 80	‘A Small, Good Thing’	naturalists, 298–9, 301–3,
plantation owners’	(Carver), 726	305–6
attitude, 58, 60	Smart Set, 540	Sinclair, 330, 331–2
pro-slavers’ writings,	Smiley, Jane, 628–9	society
168–73	Smith, Bessie, 531, 690	Doctorow on, 608
Puritan writers on, 53, 54	Smith, Dave, 598	Faulkner on, 448
spirituals, 220–2	Smith, Edward Elmer (‘Doc’),	pro-slavers on, 170–1
Washington on, 349	759	see also community
and women, 146, 148–51,	Smith, Captain John, 29–31	Society of Friends, see
173–4, 177–8, 186–7	Smith, Lee, 626, 627	Quakers

890

Index

Sociology for the South	Johnson, 353	postwar drama, 707–10,
(Fitzhugh), 168	musicals, 702	720
Sojourner Truth (Truth), 181	Native American, 322,	postwar novels, 605, 618,
Soldier’s Pay (Faulkner),	326	619–24, 626–7, 696
448–9	spirituals, 220–2, 353	postwar poetry, 598
‘Soliloquy of a Housemaid’	Sontag, Susan, 627–8	radicals, 490
(Fern), 179	Sophie’s Choice (Styron), 606,	traditionalists, 475–7
solipsism	766	South Today, 490
and Poe, 121	Sorrentino, Gilbert, 740	Southern, Terry, 741
and Stevens, 413	The Sot-Weed Factor (Barth),	Southwest: literary
solitude and solitariness	735	treatments
and Hawthorne, 202	The Sot-weed Factor (Cook),	19th century, 124–9
and Hemingway, 442–7	63	20th century, 355, 362–4
and Poe, 121	Soto, Gary, 772	corridos, 321–2
and Thoreau, 140–2	Soto, Hernando De, 24	oral traditions, 158–60
see also loneliness	The Soul of the Indian	Southwest humorists, 125–8
Solomon, Carl, 643	(Eastman), 324–5	and Caldwell, 489–90
Solstice (Oates), 625	Soul on Ice (Cleaver), 663	and nostalgia, 268
Some Kind of Love Story	The Souls of Black Folk (Du	and Twain, 254
(Miller), 706	Bois), 342, 350–1, 352	Southworth, E. D. E. N., 104
‘Some Trees’ (Ashbery), 652	sound, and Zukofsky, 393	The Sovereignty and Goodness
‘Someone is Harshly	The Sound and the Fury	of GOD (Rowlandson),
Coughing as Before’	(Faulkner), 447, 450–2	50–1
(Schwartz), 575	South	Spanish Civil War
‘Something Whispered in the	freed slaves, condition of,	literary treatments, 482,
Shakukachi’ (Hongo),	247	483
796	slavery, attitudes to, 101–2	Parker on, 546
‘somewhere i have never	see also slavery	Spanish explorers, 18–20,
travelled, gladly beyond’	South: literary treatments,	21–5
(cummings), 423	18th century, 58–60	speech
A Son of the Forest (Apess),	South: literary treatments,	language poets on, 745
154	19th century, 118–24,	see also vernacular
A Son of the Middle Border	168–74, 250–7	Speed-the-Plow (Mamet), 718
(Garland), 297–8	regionalists, 265–81	Spencer, Anne, 526, 527
Sondheim, Stephen, 702	Southern Gothic, 118,	Spicer, Jack, 638–9
Sone, Monica, 793–4	122–3	Spider Man (Sioux character),
Song (M. Butterﬂy), 722–3	South: literary treatments,	6–7
Song, Cathy, 787–8	20th century	Spider Woman (Navajo
The Song of Hiawatha	African American, 518–22,	character), 9
(Longfellow), 228	533–5, 683, 696, 699	Spillane, Micky, 750
‘Song of Myself ’ (Whitman),	Agrarians, 466	Spires, Elizabeth, 598, 599
234–5, 236, 237	early, 344, 347, 355,	Spirit House, 667
Song of Solomon (Morrison),	358–61, 368	Spirit of the Times, 125
692	Fugitives, 464, 465–6,	spirituality
The Song of the Lark (Cather),	468–75	Emerson on, 130–5
362	Modernist, 432–3, 448–53	and Shepard, 715
songs	plantation romances,	Taylor’s poetry, 47–9
corridos, 321–2	546–9	Thoreau on, 138–44
folksongs, 222–4	postmodern novels, 741	Very’s poetry, 230–1

Index

891

spirituals, 220–2, 353	‘Stopping by Woods on a	suburban life: literary
Spofford, Harriet, 314–15	Snowy Evening’ (Frost),	treatments
Spokane people, 816–17	379–81	postwar novels, 605,
Spoon River Anthology	The Stories of John Cheever	615–16, 624, 650
(Masters), 481	(Cheever), 605	postwar poetry, 598
The Sportswriter (Ford), 617,	Storm, Hyemeyohsts, 805	success, see American dream
618	‘The Storm’ (Chopin), 271	Suddenly Last Summer
Spring and All (Williams),	The Story of Avis (Phelps),	(Williams), 710
393, 409	315–16	suffrage
The Spy (Cooper), 108	The Story of Margaretta	New England, 55
The Spyglass Tree (Murray),	(Murray), 94	women, 340
684	Stout, Rex, 752	Sugimoto, Etsu, 503–4
Stackpole, Henrietta (The	Stowe, Calvin, 195	Sui Sin Far, see Eaton, Edith
Portrait of a Lady),	Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 104,	Sukenick, Ronald, 740
292–3	194–200	Sula (Morrison), 692
Stafford, William, 575, 576,	and abolitionism, 103	A Summary View of the
580	inﬂuence, 172, 183	Rights of British America
Standing Bear, 322	on Truth, 181	(Jefferson), 76
Standish, Miles, 37, 38	Straight Cut (Bell), 617,	Summer on the Lakes
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 103,	618	(Fuller), 136, 138
178	Strange Fruit (Smith), 490	The Sun Also Rises
‘Stanzas’ (Bogan), 421	Stranger in a Strange Land	(Hemingway), 443–4,
Stark, Willie (All the King’s	(Heinlein), 759	445–7
Men), 474–5	Strangers on a Train	‘Sunday Morning’ (Stevens),
steel industry, 248	(Highsmith), 751–2	414
‘The Steeple-Jack’ (Moore),	Strasberg, Lee, 456	Sundown (Matthews), 508
416–17, 418	stream of consciousness, in	surrealism
Steere, Richard, 41	Bierce, 287	and Arenas, 786
Steffens, Lincoln, 330	Streamers (Rabe), 719	and Kennedy, 688
Stegner, Wallace, 606–7	The Street (Petry), 532	and New York poets, 646,
Stein, Gertrude, 429–32	‘Street Corner College’	648, 649, 650, 652
on Europe, 339	(Patchen), 486	and postwar novels, 601,
inﬂuence, 445, 651, 742,	street life, and rap, 670	603
746	street life: literary treatments	and postwar poetry,
Steinbeck, John, 347, 497–9	Brooks, 529–30	638–9
Stevens, Wallace, 393,	Bullins, 688, 689	and West, 549
411–16, 451, 651	detective stories, 540–2	and Wright, 535
Stickney, Trumbull, 298	Fearing, 485	The Surrounded (McNickle),
Sticks and Bones (Rabe),	Patchen, 486	506, 507
719	see also city life; New York	Sut Lovingood (Harris),
Stieglitz, Alfred, 365	City	128–9
Stockton, Annis Boudinot,	Street Scene (Rice), 456	Swallow Barn (Kennedy),
61	A Streetcar Named Desire	171
Stockton, Frank R., 249	(Williams), 708–10	Sweet Medicine (Cheyenne
Stoddard, Elizabeth, 215,	‘Strong Men’ (Brown), 526	character), 10, 11–12
217–19	Studs Lonigan trilogy	Swift, Jonathan: literary
Stoddard, Richard, 217	(Farnell), 490	treatments, 744
The Stoic (Dreiser), 366–7	Styron, William, 605–6, 699,	The Sword and the Distaff
Stone, Robert, 727–8	766	(Simms), 169

892

Index

symbolism	Tell Me a Riddle (Olsen),	Thomas, Augustus, 454
in Bullins, 689	764–5	Thomas, Edward, 379
in Hawthorne, 201, 205	Temple House (Stoddard),	Thomas and Beulah (Dove),
in Hemingway, 446	217	673
in Jeffers, 386–7	The Temple of My Familiar	Thompson, Jim, 750–1
in postwar drama, 703,	(Walker), 697	Thompson, John, 185
704, 710	Tender Buttons (Stein), 431	Thomson, James, 63
reasons for prevalence, 34	Tender is the Night	Thoreau, Henry David,
in Rukeyser, 425	(Fitzgerald), 347, 439	138–44
in Shepard, 715	Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 232	and abolitionism, 103
Symbolism (movement),	The Tenth Muse Lately	and Emerson, 131
403, 484	Sprung Up in America	and Hawthorne, 203
Symonds, William, 28	(Bradstreet), 44–5	and Snyder, 640
Symons, Arthur, 352	Terence, inﬂuence, 87	on writers, 590
The System of Dante’s Hell	Terry, Lucy, 62, 86	Thoreau, John, 139
(Baraka), 666	Testimony (Reznikoff ), 396	Thorpe, Thomas Bangs, 125,
	‘Thanatopsis’ (Bryant), 227,	126
Taggard, Genevieve, 481,	228	A Thousand Acres (Smiley),
482	theatre, see drama	629
Take It Or Leave It	El Theatre Campesino, 559	Three Lives (Stein), 431
(Federman), 741	Their Eyes Were Watching	‘Three Moves’ (Logan), 571
The Talented Mr. Ripley	God (Hurston), 514–15	Three Soldiers (Dos Passos),
(Highsmith), 752	Them (Oates), 624–5	440
Tales of a Traveller (Irving),	‘Theory of Flight’	Three Years in Europe
107	(Rukeyser), 425	(Brown), 186
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians	There is a Tree More Ancient	thrillers, 751–8
(Bierce), 286–7	than Eden (Forrest), 686	magazines, 750
Tales of the Jazz Age	Theroux, Paul, 727	postmodern, 742
(Fitzgerald), 435, 436	They Shoot Horses, Don’t	see also crime novels
Tan, Amy, 788–9	They? (McCoy), 543	Through the Eye of the Needle
Tar Baby (Morrison), 692–3	They Stooped to Folly	(Howells), 285–6
Tarbell, Ida, 330	(Glasgow), 359–60	Thurber, James, 545
Tate, Allen, 425–6, 469–71	The Things They Carried	Thurman, Wallace, 511–12
on capitalism, 347	(O’Brien), 727	‘Thursday’ (Millay), 420
on Fugitive movement,	The Third Life of Grange	‘Thy Brother’s Blood’ (Very),
464, 465	Copeland (Walker), 696	230
on Glasgow, 361	‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at	The Ticket that Exploded
inﬂuence, 473, 588	a Blackbird’ (Stevens),	(Burroughs), 657
and New Criticism, 466	415	Tierra (Rivera), 774–5,
Taylor, Bayard, 258–9	This, 745	776–7
Taylor, Edward, 44, 46–9	‘This Age of Conformity’	Till the Day I Die (Odets),
Taylor, Peter, 618	(Howe), 554	457
Tayo (Ceremony), 809	‘This is my letter to the	The Time of Man (Roberts),
technology	World’ (Dickinson),	433–4
and Crane, 429	237–8	Timoleon (Melville), 214
Merrill on, 653	‘This Place in the Ways’	Timrod, Henry, 265–6
and science ﬁction, 758,	(Rukeyser), 425	Tiny Alice (Albee), 714
760, 761	This Side of Paradise	The Titan (Dreiser), 365,
telephones, spread of, 337	(Fitzgerald), 435, 436	366–7

Index

893

Tjanting (Silliman), 746	Toussaint L’Ouverture, 520	A Traveler from Altruria
To a God Unknown	‘Toussaint L’Ouverture’	(Howells), 285–6
(Steinbeck), 497	(Phillips), 165	Travesty (Hawkes), 737
‘To a Waterfowl’ (Bryant),	‘Toward Proletarian Art’	Treat, Lawrence, 751
227–8	(Gold), 487	A Treatise Concerning
To Be of Us (Piercy), 767–8	Tracks (Erdrich), 812–13	Religious Affections
To Have and Have Not	tradition	(Edwards), 67
(Hemingway), 347, 444	Asian American writers	A Treatise on Sociology
‘To Helen’ (Poe), 120–1	on, 787–8, 796	(Hughes), 169–70
‘To my baby Paul’ (Zukofsky),	and Fugitives, 464–6, 467,	Tribute to the Angels (H. D.),
394	469–75	391–2
‘To the Hopi in Richmond	Native American writers	tricksters
(Santa Fe Village)’	on, 505–9, 802–17	in 20th-century Native
(Rose), 803	see also nostalgia; past	American writings, 805,
‘To the Negro People’	‘The Traditional History and	813–15
(Taggard), 482	Characteristic Sketches	in Melville, 214
‘To the Town of Providence’	of the Ojibway Nation’	in Native American
(Williams), 39	(Copway), 155	stories, 5, 6, 7, 12–14,
To What Strangers,	The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead	509
What Welcomes	Wilson (Twain), 256	in Reed, 682
(Cunningham), 477	Trail of Tears, 102–3, 157–8	in Uncle Remus stories,
tobacco, in Native American	Train Whistle Guitar	267–8
stories, 9	(Murray), 684	Trilling, Diana, 642
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 140	Trakl, Georg, 570	Trinidad, David, 772
Todd, Almira (The Country	A Tramp Abroad (Twain),	Tripmaster Monkey
of the Pointed Firs),	250	(Kingston), 791–2
262–3	‘Trans-National America’	Triton (Delany), 762
Todd, Mabel L., 239	(Bourne), 487	Tropic of Cancer (Miller),
The Token, 202	Transcendental Wild Oats	658
Toklas, Alice B., 431, 432	(Alcott), 313	Trout Fishing in America
Tolson, Melvin B., 528	Transcendentalists, 130–44	(Brautigan), 661
Tolstoy, Leo, inﬂuence, 285	Hawthorne on, 200	True West (Shepard), 716–17
Tom Sawyer, The Adventures	literary treatments, 313	Truth, Sojourner, 181–2, 200
of (Twain), 252–3	and science ﬁction, 760	Tsimshian people, 9
The Tombs of Atuan (Le	transformation (acting	Tsukiyama, Gail, 797
Guin), 761	technique), 712	Tucker, George, 171
Tompson, Benjamin, 41	transportation, early 19th	Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley,
Toole, John Kennedy, 741	century, 100–1	172
Toomer, Jean, 344, 371, 510,	transrational language, 742	Tuckerman, Frederick
512, 518–20	travel writings	Goddard, 231, 232
The Tooth of Crime (Shepard),	15th and 16th centuries,	‘Tulips’ (Plath), 594–5
715–16	18–31	Turell, Jane Colman, 62
The Torch Song Trilogy	17th and 18th centuries,	Turgenev, Ivan, 289
(Fierstein), 721–2	55–60, 73–4	‘The Turn of the Screw’
The Torrents of Spring	19th century, 113–15, 250,	(James), 295
(Hemingway), 373	251, 283	Turner, Frederick Jackson,
A Tour of the Prairie (Irving),	20th century, 296, 492, 727	246
107	ﬁrst African American, 186	Turner, Nat, 101, 166, 199,
La Tourista (Shepard), 715	Native American, 155–6	605–6

894

Index

Turow, Scott, 757	Uncommon Women	The Valley of Shenandoah
Tuskegee Institute, 349–50,	(Wasserstein), 721	(Tucker), 171
674	The Underground Stream	Van Vechten, Carl, 513, 522
Twain, Mark (Samuel	(Maltz), 489	Vandover and the Brute
Langhorne Clemens),	‘Underground Water’	(Norris), 301
128, 250–7	(Wideman), 803	‘Vapour Trail Reﬂected in a
and Howells, 283	Underworld (DeLillo), 617	Frog Pond’ (Kinnell),
on humour, 544	‘Unfold! Unfold!’ (Roethke),	580
precursors, 176	586	Vãsquez, Richard, 779
Twentieth-Century Cycle	Unholy Loves (Oates), 625	veritism, 297
(Bullins), 689	The Universal Baseball	vernacular, use of
Twice-Told Tales	Association (Coover),	Berger, 739
(Hawthorne), 202–3	618	Brooks, 529
twins, in Native American	Unspeakable Practices,	Brown, 526
stories, 7–8	Unnatural Acts	Bullins, 689
Two Dissertations (Edwards),	(Barthelme), 735–6, 737	Chesnutt, 279, 280
67	Up From Slavery	Dunne, 327–8
Two Men (Stoddard), 217	(Washington), 349, 350	Higgins, 753
‘The Two Offers’ (Harper),	‘Up-State Depression	Hurston, 515
183	Summer’ (Taggard), 481	Leonard, 753
Two Trains Running (Wilson),	‘Up the Coulé’ (Garland),	Miller, 704
690	297–8	regionalists, 258–61,
Two Wings Veil My Face	Updike, John, 614–16	264–5, 274
(Forrest), 686	‘Upon a Spider Catching a	Southwest heroes, 124–9
Tyler, Anne, 625–6	Fly’ (Taylor), 47	Twain, 251–6
Tyler, Royall, 91–2, 453	‘Upon Wedlock, & Death	Wilson, 690
Typee (Melville), 208, 214	of Children’ (Taylor),	Very, Jones, 139, 230–1,
Typical American (Jen), 789	47–8	232
typography	urbanization	The Victim (Bellow), 610
and cummings, 424	19th century, 246	Vidal, Gore, 601
and Marquis, 423	20th century, 337	Vietnam War, 560, 561
	and rise of nostalgia, 257	literary treatments, 626,
‘The Ugliest Woman in the	see also city life	673, 719, 727–8, 761
World’ (Rose), 803	USA, see America	protest poems, 579–80,
Ulysses (Joyce), 341	U.S.A. (Dos Passos), 440,	644
Un-American Activities	441–2	Vietnamese Americans:
Committee, see House	utopian communities, 135,	writings, 799–80
Un-American Activities	203, 313	A View from the Bridge
Committee	utopian literature	(Miller), 705
The Unbearable Heart	19th century, 285–6	‘The Village Blacksmith’
(Hahn), 600	early English colonists, 29,	(Longfellow), 229
Uncle Remus stories (Harris),	35	‘A Village Dressmaker’
267–8	feminist, 316	(Spofford), 314
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe),		Villagrá, Gaspar Pérez de,
104, 172, 183, 194–9	V (Pynchon), 730–2	23
Uncle Tom’s Children	Valdez, Luis, 559	Villanueva, Alma Luz, 779
(Wright), 534, 535	The Valley (Hinojosa), 777	Villareal, José Antonio,
‘Uncle Wellington’s Wives’	The Valley of Decision	773–4
(Chesnutt), 280	(Wharton), 356	Villaseñor, Victor, 779

Index

895

violence	Waiting for Lefty (Odets),	regionalists, 265–6
African American protest	457	Styron, 606
writing, 663–74, 679–80	Waiting for the Verdict	Tate, 469–70
Capote, 724–6	(Davis), 220	Vietnam War protest
‘hardboiled’ novels, 541–4	Waiting to Exhale (McMillan),	poetry, 579–80
O’Connor, 621–3	699	Whitman, 233–4
postmodern novels, 737–8	‘Wakeﬁeld’ (Hawthorne),	Ward, Diane, 747
postwar novels, 727,	202	Warner, Charles Dudley, 251
750–1	‘Waking Early Sunday	Warner, Susan, 104
see also protest; war	Morning’ (Lowell), 580	Warren, Mercy Otis, 62
The Violent Bear It Away	Wakoski, Diane, 599	Warren, Robert Penn, 464,
(O’Connor), 622–3	Walden (Thoreau), 138–42	471–5
Viramontes, Helena Maria,	Walker, Alice, 516, 695–8,	Warshawski, Victoria
779–80	782	Iphigenia (Paretsky
Virgil, inﬂuence	Walker, David, 160–2	character), 754–5
on Cather, 363	Walker, Margaret, 521,	Washington, Booker T.,
on Lewis, 63	531–2, 532–3	348–51
on Longfellow, 228	Wall Street Crash, 345	Washington, Madison, 185
on Mather, 54	Wallace, David Foster, 619	Wasserstein, Wendy, 720,
on Villagrá, 23	Wallace, Lew, 249	721
Virgin, Adams on, 318,	The Walls Do Not Fall	The Waste Land (Eliot),
319–20	(H. D.), 391–2	404–5
Virgin of Guadalupe, 64–5,	Walter, Eugene, 453	allusiveness, 229, 397,
159	The Wapshot Chronicle	404
Virginia	(Cheever), 605	and Fugitives, 470
18th century, 56–60	war: literary treatments	and Pound, 397
exploration and	19th-century prose, 286–7	publication, 393
colonization, 25–30	Chesnut, 173–5	and the sea, 402
slavery, 101	Crane, 304–5	Williams on, 407
Virginia (Hawkes), 737	Dos Passos, 440	Watch on the Rhine
Virginia Company, 29–30	Ginsberg, 560, 579, 642,	(Hellman), 491
The Virginian (Wister),	644	Waters, Frank, 606
538–9	Harper, 184	Waters, Muddy, 668
‘Vision’ (Hinojosa), 804	Hemingway, 444, 445	The Waterworks (Doctorow),
The Vision of Columbus	Japanese American writers,	608
(Barlow), 63, 90	793–5	Watten, Barrett, 745, 746
The Vision of Sir Launfal	Komunyakaa, 673	The Way to Rainy Mountain
(Lowell), 231	Le Guin, 761	(Momaday), 806
Vizenor, Gerald, 805, 813–15	Lowell, 560, 580, 588	The Way to Wealth (Franklin),
A Voice from the South	Mailer, 602–3	71
(Cooper), 323–4	Mason, 626	‘We Real Cool’ (Brooks),
Vonnegut, Kurt, 602, 758	Miller, 706	529–30
Vorticism, 389	Mitchell, 546–9	wealth, individual
‘Voyages’ (Crane), 428	Moody, 299	19th century, 248–9
	postwar novels, 601–2,	20th century, 345–6,
Wadsworth, Rev. Charles, 239	727–8	557–8
Wagner, Richard, 688	postwar poetry, 564–6	‘Weaving’ (Larcom), 226
Wah’kon-tah (Matthews),	Pynchon, 732	The Web and the Rock
508	Rabe, 719	(Wolfe), 496–7

896

Index

Webber, George (Wolfe	Wharton, Edith, 355–8	on the Civil War, 246
character), 496–7	What I Believe Transpiration/	Cunningham on, 477
A Week on the Concord and	Transpiring Minnesota	Eberhart on, 478
Merrimack Rivers	(Grenier), 746	and Eliot, 405–6
(Thoreau), 139	What Maisie Knew (James),	and Gold, 488
Weill, Kurt, 457	295	and Hughes, 524–5
Weiner, Hannah, 747	‘What mystery pervades a	Ignatow on, 576
Weird Tales, 759	well!’ (Dickinson), 240,	inﬂuence, 642, 646, 658
Welch, James, 805, 810–11	382	Kafka on, 346
Welcome to Hard Times	what the hell for you left your	and newspapers, 104
(Doctorow), 608	heart in san francisco	Stein on, 430
Weld, Angelina Grimké,	(Santos), 799	Whittemore, Reed, 567, 582
176–7	Wheatley, Phillis, 78, 83,	Whittier, John Greenleaf,
Wells, H. G., 303	86–8	166–8
Welty, Eudora, 619–21, 752	Wheatley, Susanne, 86	‘Who Among You Knows
West	‘When de Saints Go	the Essence of Garlic?’
American right to settle,	Ma’ching Home’	(Hongo), 796
258–9	(Brown), 526	Who Speaks for the Negro?
West: literary treatments,	‘When the Frost is on the	(Warren), 472
19th century, 107–11,	Punkin’ (Riley), 259	Who’s Afraid of Virginia
112–18, 215–16, 224–5,	‘Where Are You Going,	Woolf ? (Albee), 713–14
258–9	Where Have You Been?’	Why Are We in Vietnam?
West: literary treatments,	(Oates), 625	(Mailer), 603
20th century	Where is Vietnam? American	‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
detective novels, 756–7	Poets Respond, 579	(Ginsberg), 644
early, 326–7, 344, 355,	‘Where Knock is Open	The Wide, Wide World
362–4, 371, 499	Wide’ (Roethke), 586	(Warner), 104
musicals, 702	Whitaker, Alexander, 27, 28	Wideman, John Edgar,
poetry, 384–7, 477, 570,	White, E. B., 545	684–5
586	White, Hayden, x	Wideman, Robert Hill, 803
postmodern novels, 738–9	White, Walter, 512	Wieland (Brown), 96, 97–8
postwar drama, 716–17	‘White Foolscap’ (Howe), 749	Wieners, John, 632–3
postwar novels, 606–7,	White Jazz (Ellroy), 753–4	Wife (Mukherjee), 800
608, 618–19, 628–9	‘The White Negro’ (Mailer),	The Wife of His Youth
postwar poetry, 634–5	603, 604	(Chesnutt), 278, 280–1
Westerns, 537–40, 753	White-Jacket (Melville), 209	Wigglesworth, Michael, 42
West, Dorothy, 531–2	White Noise (DeLillo),	Wilbur, Richard, 542, 566–7,
West, Nathanael, 347,	616–17	581
549–52	Whitecloud, Thomas S.,	Wild Fruits (Thoreau),
West Indians: literary	506–7	143–4
treatments, 700–1	whites, in Native American	‘The Wild Honey Suckle’
‘The Western Emigrant’	stories	(Freneau), 89
(Sigourney), 224–5	creation of, 8, 10	Wild Tree Press, 696
Western Story, 539	encounters with Native	Wilder, Thornton, 456
Westerns, 537–40, 753	Americans, 4, 5–7, 11,	wilderness
Westward Ho! (Miller), 259	12, 13–14	Twain on, 255
Weyden, Humphrey Van	Whitman, Walt, 232–7	see also clearing vs.
(The Sea-Wolf ), 307–8	on America, 89, 232–7,	wilderness
Whalen, Philip, 639, 641	481	Williams, Edward, 26, 27

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897

Williams, John, 51–2	Wister, Owen, 538–9	women: literary treatments
Williams, John A., 684	witchcraft	19th century, 92–3, 117
Williams, Jonathan, 632	Franklin on, 72	African American, 519, 688
Williams, Oscar, 565	see also Salem witch trials	Hispanic folklore, 159
Williams, Paulette, see	The Witches of Eastwick	marginalized subjects, 744
Shange, Ntozake	(Updike), 615	Mexican American, 482
Williams, Raymond, x	With Shuddering Fall (Oates),	Modernist prose, 450–2
Williams, Roger, 37, 39–41	624	Native American stories, 7
Williams, Sherley Anne, 516,	Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 733,	postwar drama, 708–10
699	742	see also women: writings
Williams, Tennessee, 688,	A Wizard of Earthsea (Le	women: rights
702–3, 707–11, 714	Guin), 761	and Adams, 318
Williams, William Carlos,	Wolfe, Hugh (‘Life in the	African American women,
347, 392, 406–11	Iron Mills’), 220	323–4
on the bomb, 581	Wolfe, Thomas, 495–7, 504	Asian immigrants, 503–4
on creative process, 390,	Wolfe, Tom, 663, 723–4, 728	and Alcott, 313–14
408	Woman in the Nineteenth	James on, 294
on Ginsberg, 642	Century (Fuller), 136–8	Le Sueur on, 493–4
inﬂuence, 576, 589, 646	‘Woman Poem’ (Giovanni),	Revolutionary period,
Moore on, 416	670–1	79–81, 96
and Objectivism, 393	The Woman Warrior	and Smith, 490
and Pound, 388	(Kingston), 789–91	voting, 340
on Rexroth, 483, 484	The Woman Within	women: writings
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 179	(Glasgow), 358, 360	ﬁrst autobiography by
Willis, Sarah Payson, see	women	Native American,
Fern, Fanny	and abolitionism, 178	325–6
Wilson, August, 688, 690–1	Adams on feminine force,	ﬁrst novel by African
Wilson, Edmund, 475, 491,	318, 319–20	American, 193–4
769	Byrd on, 59	ﬁrst novel by African
Wilson, Harriet E., 193–4,	colonial expectations of,	American to sell
354	44–5	1 million-plus, 532
Wilson, Lanford, 713, 717	Fuller on, 136–8	ﬁrst novel by Native
Wilson, Woodrow, 339	Hawthorne on, 206	American, 509
Windy McPherson’s Son	housekeeping manuals,	mutual support networks,
(Anderson), 372	175, 179	355
Winesburg, Ohio (Anderson),	Hwang on male	writing style and attitude
371, 372–3	perceptions, 722–3	to, 104
Winona (Hopkins), 310	and slavery, 146, 148–51,	women: writings, 17th and
Winter in the Blood (Welch),	173–4, 177–8, 186–7	18th centuries, 44–6,
810	see also feminism	61–2, 93–5
‘Winter Remembered’	women: conditions	women: writings, 19th century
(Ransom), 467, 468	18th century, 61	novels, 214–16, 217–20,
Winters, Yvor, 421, 477	19th century, 103, 179–80,	309, 310–14, 315–16
Winterset (Anderson), 456	249–50, 261–5	short stories, 314–15,
Winthrop, John, 32, 35–7	20th century, 340–1	316–18
Wise Blood (O’Connor),	Austin on, 326–7	women: writings, 20th
622–3	frontier life, 215–16	century
‘Wiser than a God’ (Chopin),	Hopkins on, 310–12	African American drama,
271	plantation life, 173–4	686–8

898

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African American novels,	‘Woodchucks’ (Kumin), 599	Wurlitzer, Rudolph, 740
510, 514–18, 532–3,	Woodcraft (Simms), 169	Wylie, Elinor, 419–20
691–701	Woolf, Virginia, 340, 747
African American poetry,	Woolman, John, 65	Yakima people, 7
525, 529–30, 532–3	Woolrich, Cornell, 543	Yamamoto, Hisaye, 793
African American protest	The Word for World Forest	Yeats, W. B., inﬂuence, 591
writing, 663–4, 665,	(Le Guin), 761	Yekl (Cahan), 328
668–74	Wordsworth, William, 130,	‘Yellow Light’ (Hongo), 796
Asian American, 332–5,	236, 527	‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’
787–92, 793–4, 795–6,	Work (Alcott), 313–14	(Gilman), 316–18
797–8, 800–1	work ethic	The Yemassee (Simms), 168
Chicana, 772–3, 778–80	Depression’s effect, 345–6	Yerby, Frank, 699
comic, 546	late 19th century, 248–9	Yerkes, Charles T., 366
crime and mystery novels,	Puritan origins, 68–9	Yezierska, Anna, 499–500
751–2, 754–5	Work Projects Administration	‘Yittischer Charleston’
early, 326, 355–64	(WPA), 346, 348	(Pound), 393
immigrants, 329, 499–500,	‘The Working-Girls of New	Yokohama, California (Mori),
503–4, 764–5, 766–8	York’ (Fern), 179–80	793
language poetry, 744–5,	Works Progress	Yonnondio (Olsen), 764
746–7, 749	Administration (WPA),	‘You, Andrew Marvell’
Latina, 782–4, 785–6	346, 532	(MacLeish), 484–5
Modernist poetry, 389–3,	World Anti-Slavery	‘You are my friend’
396–7, 416–22, 424–6	Convention (1840),	(Niedecker), 396
Modernist prose, 429–34	178	You Can’t Go Home Again
Native American, 508–9,	World War I, see First World	(Wolfe), 496–7
803–4, 805, 808–9,	War	You Must Remember This
811–13	World War II, see Second	(Oates), 625
popular novels, 546–9	World War	Young, Starke, 466
populist, 482–3	World’s Columbian	‘Young Sycamore’ (Williams),
postwar drama, 720–1	Exposition, Chicago	407–8
postwar novels, 619–29	(1893), 336	The Young Woman Citizen
postwar poetry, 572–3,	World’s Fair (Doctorow),	(Austin), 326
581–5, 593–600, 649	608	Youngblood (Killens), 684
radicals, 490–5	Wounded Knee massacre,	‘Yourself ’ (Very), 230–1
science ﬁction, 760–1, 762	322, 325, 559	Yuchi people, 4
short stories, 619, 622–9	WPA, see Work Projects	Yuma people, 7–9
Women and Economics	Administration; Works	Yutang, Lin, 787
(Gilman), 316	Progress Administration	Yvernelle (Norris), 300
The Women of Brewster	Wright, Charles, 596
(Naylor), 698	Wright, Col. George: literary	zaum, 742
Women of Silk (Tsukiyama),	treatments, 817	Zen Buddhism, 640
797	Wright, James, 569–70	Zitkala-Sa, 325–6
Women’s Suffrage	Wright, Jay, 598, 599	Zola, Émile, 300, 301
Association, 166	Wright, Richard, 347, 353,	The Zoo Story (Albee), 713
Wonderland (Oates), 625	515, 532–7, 674	Zukofsky, Louis, 393–4,
The Wonders of the Invisible	writing, see creative process	742
World (Mather), 52	Writing/Talks, 745	Zuni people
Wong, Jade Snow, 502	The Writing of Fiction	and Spanish, 18–19
Wong, Shawn, 793	(Wharton), 356	stories, 9, 15–18

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