---American, 12; influence of women, 113 -17, 124 -25
Cummins, Maria Susanna, 114, 271, 769; The Lamplighter, 54, 116, 117, 123, 127
Curran, Mary Doyle, 397 -98; The Parish and the Hill, 404
Custodial mission of women, domestic ideology, 126 -27
Cyberpunk fiction, 484
D'Agostino, Guido, 398
Dahlberg, Edward: Bottom Dogs, 339 40; From Flushing to Calvary, 33940; Those Who Perish, 339-40
Daly, Carroll John, The Snarl of the Beast, 373
Dana, Richard Henry, 769; Two Years Before the Mast, 149 -50
Dangarembga, Tsitsi, Nervous Conditions, 657 -68
D'Angelo, Pascal, Son of Italy, 398
Dannay, Frederic (Ellery Queen), 802
Dargan, Olive Tilford. See Burke, Fielding
Dartmouth College, 43
Davenport, Guy, 744 -46, 770; 'The Dawn in Erewhon,' 745; 'A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg,' 745; Tatlin! 745-46
Davidson, Carter, 386; 'The Immigrant Strain in American Literature,' 391
Davidson, Cathy N., 9, 19; Revolution and the Word, 14
Davidson, Donald, 416
Davidson, Edward, 82
Davies, Carole Boyce, Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, 604
Davies, Robertson, 567, 579, 770; Fifth Business, 578
Davis, H. L.: Honey in the Horn, 443; Winds of Morning, 443
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 188, 238, 335, 770; 'At the Station,' 160; and exploitation of women, 152; James's view, 162; Life in the Iron Mills, 152, 157, 160, 172 -78, 222 -26; Margret Howth, 152, 178; realism of, 160- 61; Waiting for the Verdict, 178, 187
Davis, Richard Harding, 283, 770- 71; Soldiers of Fortune, 259, 477
Dearborn, Mary, 392
Death: of loved one, nineteenth-century view, 127; of young person, moral value of, 125
de Boissiere, Ralph, 592, 593; Crown Jewel, 593; Rum and Coca Cola, 593
de Burgos, Julia, 610
de Camp, L. Sprague, Lest Darkness Fall, 361
DeCapite, Michael, 398; Maria, 399
Decentralization of literature, 250 -51
Declaration of Independence, 91
Deconstruction of gender, 542 -43
De Forest, John William, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty, 240 -41
de Graft, Robert, 359
Delany, Martin Robison, 151, 771; Blake; or, The Huts of America, 55 -56, 151
Delany, Samuel R., 699, 704, 724 -25, 771; Dhalgren, 725; The Motion of Light in Water, 556; Nevèrÿon series, 705, 725; Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, 554 -57; Tales of Nevèrÿon, 725; Triton, 725
Deleuze, Giles, 513
DeLillo, Don, 403, 698, 706, 707, 719 20; End Zone, 720; Great Jones Street, 720; Libra, 699; The Names, 720; Ratner's Star, 705; White Noise, 706
De Lima, Clara Rosa, 605; Tomorrow Will Always Come, 603 -4
de Lisser, Herbert G., 590 -91; Jane's Career, 591; Susan Proudleigh, 591; The White Witch of Roseball, 590- 91
Dell, Floyd, 337
Democracy: autobiography and, 27; Brackenridge and, 21; novels and, -864- 14; story papers and, 288, 289; Western novels and, 369
Democratic societies, avant-garde and, 734
Demythologizing, 10 -11; avant-garde and, 734
Denning, Michael, 286, 293, 300
Dennis, Patrick (Edward Everett Tanner), Auntie Mame, 502
Depression, economic, 326; African Americans and, 348; in Canada, 570; ethnic novels, 392; and proletarian art, 331 -32, 334 -46; pulp magazines, 359
Derrida, Jacques, 516
Desktop publishing, 681
Detective fiction: African American, 496; dime novels, 294, 297; Native American, 455 -56; twentieth century, 371 -78
Detective Story Magazine, 359
Detective Tales, 373
Determinism: of Davis's work, 225 -26; and individualism, 193
Development, female, novels of, 110
Dew, Thomas R., 96
Dexter, Pete, Deadwood, 461
Dialects, 251; Québécois, 571
Dialect tales, post-Civil War, 244 -45
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 525
Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit, 8
Dickinson, Anna, 236
Dickstein, Morris, 393
Diction, concreteness of, 11
Didion, Joan, 771 -72; Play It as It Lays, 451
DiDonato, Pietro, 398, 399 -400; Christ in Concrete, 399–400
Difference: identity and, 202 -3; racial, social evolution and, 206; social, regionalism and, 251
'Difficult fiction,' 695, 700
Dime novels, 523, 285, 286, 291 -302, 304, 438; science fiction, 361
Dirkin, Douglas Leader, 391
Disappearances, Latin America, 627
Disencumbered experience, romance and, 76
Distribution of books, 685; nineteenth century, 49
Divorce, nineteenth century, 143 -44
Dix, Dorothea, 149
Dixon, Thomas, 241, 247 -248, 772; The Clansman, 363; The Leopard's Spots, 247
Doctorow, E. L., 521, 538 -39; Billy Bathgate, 538; The Book of Daniel, 11, Loon Lake, 538; Ragtime, 538; Welcome to Hard Times, 448; World's Fair, 538
Doig, Ivan, 462, 772; Dancing at the Rascal Fair, 462; English Creek, 462; Ride with Me, Mariah, Montana, 462; This House of Sky, 462
Domesticity, 115 -29, 688 -89; antebellum novels, 51; industrial world and, 223 -24; post-World War II, 486, 506 -7; reform fiction and, 230 -31, 238 -39; reform movements and, 225; slavery and, 220 -22; technology and, 473 -74
Domestic novels, 110-11, 271 -72; nineteenth century, 56, 60, 65 -66, 69 -70; story papers, 289- 90
Domination, desire for, social reform and, 136
Donleavy, J. P., 403
Donnelly, Ignatius, Caesar's Column, 472
Donoso, José, The Obscene Bird of Night, 615 -16
Doolittle, Hilda ('H.D.'), 312
