Acker, Kathy, 698, 699, 706, 723 -24, 753- 54; The Adult Life of Henri Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec, 723; The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula, 723; Don Quixote, 699, 723; Hello I'm Erica Jong, 723;
Kathy Goes to Haiti, 699; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 723
Adamic, Louis, 400
Adams, Andy, The Log of a Cowboy, 439
Adams, Brooks, 250
Adams, Henry, Democracy, 157
Adams, John, 13
Addams, Jane, 125, 269; Twenty Years at Hull House, 381
Adisa, Opal Palmer, 653
Adorno, Theodor, 210, 679
Adultery novels, Fitzgerald and, 324
Adventure fiction, 289, 359 -60, 378 79; antebellum novels, 51; detective novels, 372 -78; frontier novels, 438; late nineteenth century, 257 -58; of Melville, 80; Westerns, 366 -71; by women, 52
Advertising of books, 53
Aesthetics: liberated, Coover and, 735; male definition, 46
Aesthetic standards, American literary canon and, 128
Affectionate appropriation, slavery and, 99 -100
Africa, Canadian novels set in, 584
African Americans, 98-100, 409 -13; antebellum, 55; Du Bois and, 206 10; Faulkner and, 427 -30; Mailer - 853- African Americans (Continued) and, 493; migration of, 408; and post-Civil War reconciliation, 247 48; writings about, 417 -20 — women, 268, 269; and domesticity, 127 -28; Hurston and, 423 -24; as writers, 270, 273, 283, 496
— writers, 421 -25; antislavery, 150 53; autobiographical writings, 37 41; late nineteenth-century realist, 178 -81; late twentieth century, 495 -97; postmodern, 522 -23, 529 30, 699; proletarian fiction by, 346 50; and reform movements, 154; regional fiction, 430 -36; and romance, 105; and temperance movement, 142; and women's issues, 152 -53
African peoples: and English language, 656; importation of, 92; postcolonial societies, 668
Age of Protest and Reform, 216, 228
Agrarian movement, 408, 414
Agrarian revolt, fiction of, 235 -36
Agustin, José: Ciudades desiertas, 631; 'Cuál es la onda,' 631; De perfil, 631; Se está hacienco tarde, 631
Aidoo, Area Ata, 667
Alcohol consumption, nineteenth century, 136
Alcott, Louisa May, 126, 754; Behind a Mask, 120; Little Women, 113, 121; Work, 125
Alcott, William, 137
Alegría, Claribel, No me agarran viva: La mujer salvadoreña en la lucha (They'll Never Take Me Alive), 647
Alegría, Fernando, 523
Alexander, Meena, 653
Alger, Horatio, 298, 357, 754; Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York, 357; Struggling Upward, 358
Algren, Nelson: The Man with the Golden Arm, 341; Somebody in Boots, 341; A Walk on the Wild Side, 341
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), 13
Alienation, post- World War II, 487, 492
Allegory, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as, 256
Allen, Garland, 211
Allen, Paula Gunn, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, 457
Allende, Isabel, 522, 615
Allfrey, Phyllis Shand, 594; The Orchid House, 603
'The All Jamaica Library,' 590
Allusions, in postmodern fiction, 704 -6, 710, 716
Alter, Judy, Mattie, 440
Alter, Robert, 733
Alternative publishing, 681
Althusser, Louis, 522
America, early idea of, 9
American artists, and European culture, 311 -12
American autobiography, 27, 29; and slave narratives, 37–39
American Colonization Society, 140
American culture, 515; James and, 163 -64
American imperialism, 654
The American Journal of Sociology, 192, 201
American literature: postmodern views, 517 -18; mid-twentieth-century views, 488 -89
American novelists, late nineteenth century, and sociology, 190 -215
American novels: early, 6- 25; publishers and, 53–54
American proletarianism, 331 -56
American reform, origins of, 131 -32
American Renaissance, 128; and male novelists, 118; and women, 113- 15; and women novelists, 112 -13; women's novels and, 128-29
American Revolution: historical fiction, 259; story paper tales, 291
American Social Science Association, 192
American society, story papers and, 291
American Studies, 489
American Temperance Union, 137- 38
American Tract Society,137, 147
American writers, and World War I, 318
— 854-
American writings, European publication, 7
Amoroso Lima, Alceu, 624
Anaya, Rudolfo, 406, 754; Bless Me, Ultima, 453
Anderson, Benedict, 241, 531
Anderson, Laurie, 228, 516
Anderson, Margaret, 312 Anderson, Sherwood, 315, 327, 408, 755; and race, 409 -10; Dark Laughter, 410; 'Notes Out of a Man's Life,' 410; Winesburg, Ohio, 327
Andrews, William L., 91; To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760–1865, 37, 40
Angers, Marie-Louise-Féicité. See Conan, Laure
Anglo-African Magazine, 151
Anglo-Saxon immigrants, 383 Anglo-Saxon masculinity, American identity and, 263 -64
Anomie, Durkheim's idea, 198
Antebellum novels: by African Americans, 55 -56; marketplace, 47 -71; reform issues, 131; temperance, 139 -40
Anthony, Michael, 600, 602 -3; The Games Were Coming, 603; Green Days by the River, 603; The Year in San Fernando, 595, 603
Anthony, Susan B., 142
Anti-Catholicism, 147
