562
Lesbianism, 279, 545; Barnes and, 328
--- literature of, 501, 551 -52; Latin American, 629 -30; postwar, 505
Lesley, Craig, Winterkill, 461
Le Sueur, Meridel, 326, 332, 339, 350 53, 457; 'Annunciation,' 351; The Girl, 332, 350- 51; Harvest Song, 352; I Hear Men Talking, 332, 351, 352-53; 'I Was Marching,' 353; 'Spring Story,' 351; 'What Happens in a Strike,' 352; 'Women on the Breadlines,' 352
Levin, Meyer, The Old Bunch, 393
Levine, Robert, 72
Lewis, H. H., 344
Lewis, R. W. B., 395; The American Adam, 489
Lewis, Sinclair, 171, 335; Main Street, 283
Lewis, Wyndham, 317
Lewisohn, Ludwig, The Island Within, 387
Leyner, Mark, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, 484
Libbey, Laura Jean, 159, 293, 297–300; Leonie Locke; or, The Romance of a Beautiful New York Working-Girl, 299
Liberalism, 50
Liberal sociology, 197
Liberation, rhetoric of, 647
The Liberator, 141, 346
Liberty, gothic novels and, 22 -23
'Libraries,' publishers' series, 53
Liebowitz, Herbert, Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography, 29
Limitations, avant-garde and, 732, 751
Lincoln, Abraham, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, 144
Ling, Amy, 277
Linguistic alienation, Latin American, 613
Linguistic excess, in avant-garde fiction, 732
Linn, James Weber, 396
Lippard, George, 48, 51, 148, 288, 789; New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million, 148; The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall, 47, 54, 138, 148
Lispector, Clarice, 624 -25, 636 -37, 790; Agua viva, 625, 636-37; Family Ties, 625; 'The Fifth Story,' 637; The Passion According to G.H., 625
Literacy, 49, 693
Literary canon, 56, 128 -29, 178; and financial success, 70
Literary criticism. See Criticism, literary
Literary culture: antebellum, 51; economy and, 49; regional, 407 -8
Literary fiction, publication of, 683 -84
Literary Guild, 685
Literary historians, and nineteenthcentury women, 111 -15
Literary reviews, West Indies, 592, 593
Literary Western novels, 437 -64
Literature: American, 6 -7; early American views, 12; mass marketing, nineteenth century, 53; mid- twentiethcentury views, 488; postmodern, 516; television and, 480 -84; Vargas Llosa's views, 623
Little magazines, 407, 414
Littlepage trilogy, Cooper, 143
Little Review, 312
Liveright, Horace, 393; and Yezierska, 388
Living gospel, women as, 124
Loaeza, Guadalupe, 632
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Local color, 250 -56; Cable and, 244; economic depression and, 392; Western, 438
Locke, Alain, 28; The New Negro, 421
Locklin, Gerald, The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen, 450
Lockwood, John, An Essay on Flogging, 149
Loeb, Harold, 320
London, Jack, 263, 335, 790; The Call of the Wild, 264 -65; The Iron Heel, 236 -37, 341; Martin Eden, 439; People of the Abyss, 236; and primordial violence, 264-65; The SeaWolf, 264, 439; White Fang, 264, 265 -66
Long, Edward, History of Jamaica, 89, 103
Long, Huey P., 415
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Poems on Slavery, Poe's comments, 96
Lorde, Audre, 670
Los Angeles, novels of, 451, 454
Loss of control, fear of, Hawthorne and, 136
Lost generation novelists, 314 -25
Love, Glen A., 447
Love: between women, Cather and, 279 -80; possession and, 95; romantic, nineteenth-century ideas, 124 25; slavery and, Poe's views, 99 100; in Western fiction, 368 -69
Lovelace, Earl, 592, 600, 602 -3, 653; The Dragon Can't Dance, 603; The Wine of Astonishment, 603
Lovett, Robert Morss, 396
Lower classes: naturalist fiction, 202 -4; observation of, 197 -98; realist fiction, 197-99
— white: social reformers and, 147 49; Stowe and, 146
Loyalty, individualism and, 195
Lugones, Leopoldo, 610 -11
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 409
Lukacs, Georg, 157 -58
Lurie, Alison, 451, 505, 790- 91
Luska, Sidney. See Harland, Henry
Lyotard, Jean-Francois, 366, 516, 521, 691, 714
Lytle, Andrew, 416
Mabbott, Thomas O., 104
McCarthy, Joseph, 486
McCarthy, Mary, 793; The Group, 505
McClure's magazine, 386
McCorkle, Jill, The Cheer Leader, 481
McCoy, Horace, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 450
McCullers, Carson, 429 -30, 505, 793; The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, 505; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 505; The Member of the Wedding, 429, 505
McCutcheon, George Barr, Graustark, 259
MacDermott, Thomas (Tom Redcam): Becka's Buckra Baby, 590; One Brown Girl and — : A Jamaican Story, 590
McDonald, Ian, The Hummingbird Tree, 595
McGregor, Gaile, The Wacousta Syndrome, 559
McGuane, Thomas, 449 -50, 793- 94; Keep the Change, 450
McHale, Brian, 703
Machine: symbolism of, 466 -67; technology, 465 -66
McKay, Claude, 332, 346, 383, 422, 591 -92, 794; Banana Bottom, 348, 591-92, 600; Banjo, 347 -48, 591; Home to Harlem, 346- 47, 591; The Negroes in America, 346; Trial by Lynching, 346
