Baudrillard, Jean, 483, 516
Baym, Nina, 64, 73, 85, 2-89, 2-95
Beach, Rex, The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance, 477
Beach, Sylvia, 312, 321
The Beacon (Trinidad review), 592, 593
Beadle, Irwin, 295
Beadle and Adams, publishers, 291 -97, 299, 438
Beadle's Half-Dime Library, 296
Beadle's Monthly, 297
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (film), 362
Beat movement, 446, 492 -93
Beattie, Ann, 482
Beattie, James, Dissertations Moral and Critical, 76 -77
Beauchemin, Yves, 572
Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy, Monsieur Melville, 582
Beauty, language of, realism and, 172, 173
Beckett, Samuel, 327, 654
Beecher, Catharine, 120 -21, 142; The American Woman's Home, 121; A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 120-21
Beecher, Lyman, 145; Plea for the West, 147; Six Sermons on Intemperance, 136
Behn, Aphra, Oroonoko, 8
Belgrave, Valerie, 605
Bell, Michael Davitt, 72
Bell, Thomas, Out of This Furnace, 349, 383
Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward, 2000–1887, 228 -30, 470, 475 -76
Belli, Giaconda, 610
Bellow, Saul, 402, 759; The Adventures of Augie March, 497; Herzog, 498; Henderson the Rain King, 498; Humboldt's Gift, 497; Mr. Sammler's Planet, 498; Seize the Day, 497- 98; The Victim, 403
Benezet, Anthony, 140
Benjamin, Park, 287
Benoit, Jacques, 572
Bercovici, Konrad, 386
Berger, Thomas, 759; Little Big Man, 448 -49
Bergon, Frank, Shoshone Mike, 461
Bergson, Henri, 314
Berry, Don: Moontrap, 447; To Build a Ship, 447; Trask, 447
Bersianik, Louky: L'Euguelionne, 582; Le Piquenique sur l'Acropole: Cahiers d'Ancyl, 581
' Bertha M. Clay' stories, 297
Bessette, Gerard, Le Libraire (Not for Every Eye), 570
Best-sellers, 504 -5, 688; canonization and, 70; early American, 5; Russian Jewish, 385 — nineteenth century, 114, 139, 258, 271, 294; anti-Catholic, 147; early, 47, 54; late, 303, 304
Beti, Mongo, 668
Bicultural texts, Native American autobiography as, 44–45
Bildungsroman: female, 110; gay, 551; West Indian, 600
Bim (literary review), 593
Binding of books, 49
Biracial society: Faulkner and, 426 -27; Wright and, 431
Bird, Robert Montgomery, Nick of the Woods; or, The Jibbenainosay, 51, 87, 294, 437
Bird, William, 92
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Birth rate, 268; Canadian, 570; and literary market, 49
Bishop, W. H., 292
Bissoondath, Neil, A Casual Brutality, 575, 584
Black Britishers, 653, 659, 661 -62
Black Mask, 373
Black nationalism, Griggs and, 248
Blackness, power of, 106 -8
Blacks. See African Americans
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 126
Blais, Marie-Claire, 569, 759 -60; Un Joualonais, sa Joualonie (St. Lawrence Blues), 571; Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel (A Season in the Life of Emannuel), 569
Blaise, Clark, A North American Education, 561
Blast: The Review of the Great English Vortex, 317 -18
Blockbuster publishing, 680, 686
Blodgett, E. D., 573
Bloomer, Amelia, 137
Board of Aliens Commission, Massachusetts, 192
Boas, Franz, 421
Bojer, Johan, 389
Bok, Edward, The Americanization of Edward Bok, 385
Bolívar, Simón: García Márquez and, 527 -28
Bombal, María Luisa, 623
Bondage, Poe and, 93 -94
Bonner, Robert, 287
Bonnin, Gertrude. SeeZitkala-Ša
Bontemps, Arna: Black Thunder, 349 50, 421; God Sends Sunday, 421
Book clubs, 359, 685
The Bookman, 297
Book-of-the-Month Club, 400, 530, 685, 698
Book retailers, mass-market, 687 -88
Books, production economics, 678 -83: early American, 48
Book Union, 339
Boom, Latin American literature, 613, 615, 616, 625
Booth, Wayne C., 445
Borderland theorists, 539
Borders, nationhood and, 242 -43
Borges, Jorge Luis, 327, 609, 610 -11, 616-18, 760; 'The Circular Ruins,' 617; Ficciones, 616, 617; 'The Garden of Forking Paths,' 704; 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,' 617
Bosco, Monique, 572
Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 142
Bourdieu, Pierre, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, 694
Bourgeois classes, and individualism, 333
Bourne, Randolph, 381
Bower, B. M. (Bertha Muzzy Sinclair), 443; Points West, 367 -68
Bowering, George: Burning Water, 563, 565; Caprice, 563
Bowles, Paul, 760; The Sheltering Sky, 491 -92
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, Gunnar, 389
Boyhood, idealization of, 255 -56
Brace, Charles Loring,The Dangerous Classes of New York, 381
