99, 106; and technology, 479-80; temperance themes, 138; Typee, 61, 80; White-Jacket, 51, 61, 138, 14950; work novels, 51
Memoirs, autobiographical, Native Americans and, 45
Memory, and autobiography, 29
Men, readers of popular fiction, 359. See also Male writers; Masculinity
Mena, María Cristina, 271
Menand, Louis, 691
Menchú, Rioberta, Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia, 646
Mencken, H. L., 342, 420 -21; 'The Sahara of the Bozarts,' 417; and South, 417-18
Mendelson, Edward, 717
Mendes, Alfred H., 592, 593; Black Fauns, 592; Pitch Lake, 592
Menippean satire, 450, 705
Mental colonization, 650, 654, 655
Mesmerism, Hawthorne and, 135 -36
Metafictional strategies, 700 -703; in Barth's fiction, 711 -12; in Nabo-
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Metafictional strategies (Continued) Nabo-'s fiction, 708 -10; of Vonnegut, 722
Metalious, Grace, Peyton Place, 506
Mexican American writers, 453, 500 501; postmodern realist, 530 Mexican women, first novel in English by, 271
Mexico: fiction in, 628 -32; Spanish conquest, 258
Middle class: African American, 411, 420 -41; book market, 46; ethnic writers, 402 -6; and fiction, 50; and industrial working conditions, 223 24; and novel reading, 688 -89; realist literature and, 158, 197
— intellectuals: 1920s, 337; leftist, 353 -54
— women: Howells and, 183 -84; moral reform societies, 137; nineteenth century, 114; and workers, 173, 177
Migrations: African American, 408; contemporary, 649 -51; postcolonial, 659, 678
Millenialists, 133
Millhauser, Steven, 746 -51, 795; The Barnum Museum, 748 -49; Cartoons, 747; Edwin Mullhouse, 747 48; In the Penny Arcade, 748
Mills, C. Wright, The Power Elite, 485
Mills, Nicolaus, 72
Minimalism, postmodern, 535 -36
Minister, Edith May Dowe, Our Natupski Neighbors, 383
Minority groups, 652 -53, 669; and autobiography, 27; early American, 9; internal colonization, 655; novels of identity, 494 -95
Minority writers, proletarian fiction, 333
Mise en abîme, 702; Acker, 723; Vonnegut, 722
Missionary Westerns, Canadian, 562
Mistral, Gabriela, 609
Mitchell, Donald, 114
Mitchell, Margaret, 795; Gone With the Wind, 389
Mitchell, S. Weir, 231; Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, 259
Mitchell, W. O.: The Vanishing Point, 563; Who Has Seen the Wind, 578
Mittelholzer, Edgar, 593, 594, 597 -98; Children of Kaywana, 598; Corentyne Thunder, 598; The Harrowing of Hubertus, 598; Kaywana Blood, 598; A Morning at the Office, 598; Shadows Move Among Them, 598
Modern art movement, 311
Modern Electrics (magazine), 360
Modernism, 311- 30, 476, 516, 697; Emerson and, 470; of Faulkner, 427; immigrant novels, 394 -95; metafictional situations, 702; Pound and, 465 -66; in proletarian fiction, 345 -46; Stegner and, 452
Modernization, Western novels and, 369 -71
Modleski, Tania, 378
Molesworth, Charles, 743, 749
Molloy, Sylvia, 629
Momaday, N. Scott, 453- 55, 457, 795 96; The Ancient Child, 457; House Made of Dawn, 453-55, 456; The Way to Rainy Mountain, 454
Money: Davis and, 176; early realists and, 188; evil and, in James's view, 167; Twain and, 171 -72
Monk, Maria, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery, 147
Monomania: and caricature, 83 -84; and revenge, 86 -87
Monroe, Harriet, 312
Montaigne, Michel de, Essays, 26
Montana Kid series, Brand, 440
Montejo, Esteban, autobiography, 646
Montgomery, Lucy Maud, Anne of Green Gables, 561
Monthly magazines, 303
Moore, Brian, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, 574 -75
Moral difference between sexes, domesticity and, 124 -26
Moral improvement, novels of, 219
Moral realism, 488
Moral reform societies, 137
Moral standards, women and, 126, 219
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Moral value: nineteenth century, 65 -67; post-World War II, 491 -92
Moral vision, 10 -11; in Cooper's novels, 23 -25
More, Hannah, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, 118 -19, 120
Morejón, Nancy, 610
Mori, Toshio, 796; The Woman from Hiroshima, 462 -63; Yokohama, California, 500
Mormons, 133
Moroso, John Antonio, 398
Morrell, Benjamin, Narrative of Four Voyages, 107
Morris, Wright, 443, 445, 796; Ceremony in Lone Tree, 445; The Field of Vision, 444 -45; Love Among the Cannibals, 445; Plains Song, 445
Morrison, Toni, 505, 520 -22, 524, 528 -29, 796- 97; Beloved, 87, 105; The Bluest Eye, 670; Song of Soloman, 522, 529, 530; Sula, 522, 529- 30; Tar Baby, 529
Morton, Perez, 15 -16
Mother figures, African American writers and, 434 -35
Motherhood: nineteenth-century ideas, 116; Revolutionary-era idea, 115
Motherwell, Robert, 750
Motivation for writing, nineteenth century, 65–67
Mott, Frank Luther, 303
Mott, Lucretia, 142
Mountain men, novels about, 447
Mourning Dove. SeeHum-ishu-ma
Movements, reform, 132 -33
Movies. See Cinema
Muckraking journalism, 236
Mugwump reform, 157
Mukherjee, Bharati, 653, 669 -70, 672 78; Darkness, 672- 74, 676; Jasmine 671, 674, 675, 677 -78; The
