Anti-clericalism, Canadian, 570
Anti-communist movement, 486
Antimodernism of Western fiction, 369 -71
Antin, Mary, The Promised Land, 385, 387
Antipatriarchal aspects of domesticity cult, 118 -26
Anti-Semitism, 490; of Hemingway, 321
Antislavery movement, 218 -22. See also Abolition
Antitechnological fiction, 467, 479
The Anvil, 343
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 539; Borderlands / La Frontera, 532
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 318
Apprenticeship system, printed literature and, 51
Appropriation of language, Valenzuela and, 641 -42
Apthorp, Fanny, 15 -16
Aquin, Hubert: Neige noire (Hamlet's Twin), 580, 582; Prochain épisode, 571
Architecture, postmodern, 516
Argentina, fiction of, 632 -41
Argosy, 359
Armstrong, Jeannette C., 577; Slash, 576
Arnold, Matthew, Culture and Anarchy, 317
Arrighi, Antonio A., The Story of Antonio, the Galley Slave, 398
Art: Acker's views, 723 -24; commercialization of, 517, 518; fiction as, 272 -73; industrial, 173 -74; modernist views, 317; nineteenth-century America and, 48; nineteenth-century novel as, 66; proletarian, 331 -32; and social values, 334 -35
Arthur, Timothy Shay, 114, 139, 755; Six Nights with the Washingtonians, 139; Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There, 139-40
Artists: American, and European culture, 311 -12. — women as, 271, 272-73; Cather and, 278 -80; novels about, 275; Wharton and, 276 -77
Ashbery, John, 736
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, 31
Asian American writers, 405, 406, 499 500; Western fiction, 462 -63
Asian immigrants, 406
Asimov, Isaac, 755-56; I, Robot, 361
Assimilation: minority fiction and, 502; Native American, in Canada, 576
Associationism, Hawthorne and, 134 -35
As-told-to narratives, 4; Native American autobiography, 44; slave autobiographies, 37
Astor Place Riot (1849), 290
Astounding, 364
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Asturias, Miguel Angel, 524
Atherton, Gertrude, 283, 457, 756
Attaway, William, 332; Blood on the Forge, 348 -49
Attenborough, Richard, Gandhi (film), 658
Atwood, Margaret, 756; Bodily Harm, 584; Cat's Eye, 567; The Handmaid's Tale, 567, 582; The Journals of Susanna Moodie, 574; Lady Oracle, 579; Surfacing, 567, 583; Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, 565, 566
Auden, W. H., 389
Audience, literary, 679, 685, 688 -90; for dime novels, 293 -94, 297, 300 301; nineteenth century, 114; postmodern fiction and, 701
Augustine, St., Confessions, 26
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, 17
Austin, Mary, 273, 283, 756- 57
Authenticity: female, nineteenth-century views, 120, 123; in Western fiction, 461 -62
Authorial voices, 703; in dime novels, 299–300; in story-paper fiction, 290
Authority, 4 -5, 13 -14; in autobiography, 27; Cooper and, 24; gothic novels and, 22 -23
Authors: income of, 681 -82; publishers and, 680 -81
Authorship, 4–5, 679, 689; of dime novels, 292 -93; in early America, 12; nineteenth-century women and, 64 -65; novels about, 52; postmodern capitalism and, 680; professionalism of, nineteenth century, 67 -70
Autobiography: Asian American, 499; ethnic, 385; expatriation and, 650; and fiction, 4–5, 9, 26 -45; immigrant experience, 382, 384, 398; proletarian, 333, 334 -44
Automatic writing, 313, 525
Autonomy: of artist, 691; literary, 59 60, 67; personal, Native Americans and, 43
Avant-garde, 691, 726 -51; Joyce and, 327; postmodernism and, 697 -98; Stein and, 314
Averill, Charles, The Secret Service Ship; or, The Fall of San Juan D'Ulloa, 289
B. Dalton, 687
Baker, Houston, 540
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 358, 705
Baldwin, James, 348, 496, 662, 757; Another Country, 496; Giovanni's Room, 502, 547 -48; Go Tell It on the Mountain, 496; Just Above My Head, 496
Balloon of experience, James's idea, 74
Ballou, Adam, 133
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 290; Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain, 190; Red Rupert, the American Bucanier, 290
Balmer, Edwin, When Worlds Collide, 365
Balzac, Honoré: Fuentes and, 620
Banks, Russell, 520
Bannon, Ann, 501
Bantam Books, 686; lesbian paperbacks, 501
Baraka, Amiri, 757- 58
Barbados, 89; writers from, 594 -96
Barlow, Joel, 468
Barnes, Djuna, 328 -29, 330, 408, 756; Ladies Almanack, 328; Nightwood, 501
Barnet, Miguel, 609, 646
Barney, Natalie, 312
Baroque quality of Latin American fiction, 611-13
Barrack-yard novels, 592, 599
Barrett, Elizabeth, The Drama of Exile and Other Poems, Poe's review, 101
Barrio, Raymond, The Plum Plum Pickers, 453
Barrios de Chungara, Domitila, 647; Si me permiten hablar…, 646- 47
Barth, John, 516, 699, 730 -32, 733, 736, 756;Chimera, 703, 722; The End of the Road, 711; 'A Few Words About Minimalism,' 535 -36; The Floating Opera, 711; Giles Goat-Boy, 699, 711, 730, 731, 749; Letters, 711, 732; 'The Literature -856- of Exhaustion,' 610, 702, 710 -11, 730; 'The Literature of Replenishment,' 610, 698 -99; Lost in the Funhouse, 711 -12; and parody, 749; Sabbatical: A Romance, 699, 711; The Sot-Weed Factor, 711, 730, 731, 749; Tidewater Tales, 712
Barthelme, Donald, 516, 698, 699, 706, 720 -21, 742 -44, 756 -57; The Dead Father, 699, 720-21, 743 -44; Gass and, 742; and parody, 749- 50; Snow White, 699, 704, 705, 72021, 743-44
Barton, Rebecca Chalmers, Witnesses for Freedom: Negro Americans in Autobiography, 28
Baseball novels, 358
Baudelaire, Charles: Poe and, 60, 66
