slave narrative and, 42; Stein and, 213 -14; Stowe and, 144 -45; temperance novels and, 138 -40
Patten, Gilbert (Burr L. Standish), 357; Frank Merriwell at Yale, 357- 58; Frank Merriwell in Wall Street, 358
Patten, Simon, The New Basis of Civilization, 358
Patterson, Orlando, 592, 594, 598; The Children of Sisyphus, 599; Die the Long Day, 599
Paulding, James Kirke: The Dutchman's Fireside, 437; Slavery in the United States, 101; Poe's review, 90, 96 101, 104
Paz, Octavio, 609, 622
— 888-
Pearson, Ridley, 456
Peckham, Morse, 618
Pells, Richard, 341
Pellucidar series, Burroughs, 362 -63
Peoples of color, 652 -53; Faulkner and, 427; literature of, 406; migrations of, 650; postmodern writers, 522; status in U.S., 655. See also African Americans; Native Americans
Percy, Walker, 800; The Last Gentleman, 491; Love in the Ruins, 491; The Moviegoer, 491; The Second Coming, 491
Perera, Padma, 653
Perfectionism, nineteenth century, 140
Perfectionist theology, 132
Periodicals, and works of fiction, 50
Personal life, public affairs and, 50
Personal property, slaves as, 221 -22
Perspective (magazine), 692
Perversity, Poe and, 82
Peterkin, Julia, 417 -18; Black April, 417; Bright Skin, 418; Green Thursday, 417; Scarlet Sister Mary, 417- 18
Peters, Fritz (Arthur Anderson Peters), Finistere, 502
Peterson, Joyce Shaw, 301
Peterson, Levi, The Backslider, 461 -62
Peterson's Magazine, 303
Petry, Ann, The Street, 496 -97
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 238, 282, 335, 800; The Gates Ajar, 127; The Silent Partner, 226 -28, 232
Philosophical novels, postmodern, 711
Philosophy, post- World War II, 486 -87
Photography, postmodern, 516
Picaresque novels: early American, 19 21; female, 110
Pierce, Franklin, 62
Pioneer-prairie novels, 441. See also Frontier stories
Pirated works, 48; early American publication, 7; in story papers, 288
Pita Rodríguez, Felix, 524
Place: Canadian novels of, 561 -65; individual and, 469
Plantation tradition, 244
Plante, David, The Family, 404
Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar, 505
Plots: early American, 10; postmodern, 705, 716
Pocahontas, 30
Pocket Books, 359, 658 -86
Poe, Edgar Allan, 51, 55, 60–62, 66 70, 72, 90, 800–801; 'Balloon Hoax,' 361; 'Berenice,' 77 -78, 95; 'The Black Cat,' 82, 98; 'The Cask of Amontillado,' 82; detective fiction, 375; Eureka, 61, 91, 102, 107; 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,' 81; 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 66; 'For Annie,' 95; 'The Gold Bug,' 96; 'Hans Pfaal,' 361; 'Hop-Frog,' 81–82, 103 -4; 'How to Write a Blackwood Article,' 70, 78–79; and imagination, 77–80; and intellectual women, 63; 'King Pest,' 81 'Landor's Cottage,' 95; 'Ligeia,' 95; 'Lionizing,' 82; 'The Literati of New York City,' 101 -2; 'Los of Breath,' 78; 'The Man of the Crowd,' 375; 'Marginalia,' 78, 79; Matthiessen and, 128; 'Morella,' 95; 'The Murders in the Rue Morge,' 96, 103; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 51, 82–83, 107- 9; 'Paulding-Drayton Review,' 96101, 104; 'The Philosophy of Composition,' 69; 'The Power of Words,' 79; 'A Predicament,' 7879; 'The Raven,' 69; and revenge, 81–83; review of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, 105; science fiction, 361; and slavery, 93 -94, 96104; 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether,' 103; 'A Tale of Jerusalem,' 82; Tales, 53; 'The Tell- Tale Heart,' 82; 'To Helen,' 95; 'To Marie Louise Shew,' 95; and women, 94–95
The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 94
Poetry: proletarian, 344; Puritan, 31
Poetry (magazine), 312, 314
Poets, Latin American, 609
Poggioli, Renato, 734
— 889-
Poirier, Richard, 488
Political exile, 651, 668
Political fantasies, post-Civil War, 247 -48
Politicalization of American fiction, early twentieth century, 326 -27
Politics, fiction and, 14, 128 -29; American novel, 25; avant-garde, 735; gothic novels, 22; Irish American novels, 403; picaresque novels, 19 20; postmodern, 700; science fiction, 365; story papers, 288, 290 -91
Pollack, Simon, The Autobiography of Simon Pollack, 383
Poniatowska, Elena, 623; Hasta no verte Jesús mío, 647
Poole, Ernest, The Voice of the Street, 384 -85
Poovey, Mary, 543
Popular culture, 285 -86
Popular fiction, 378 -79, 504 -5; late nineteenth century, 285–305; twentieth century, 357 -79
Popularity: Melville's views, 68; Poe's views, 69
Popular press, rise of, 13
Popular taste, 694 -95
Population growth, and literary market, 49
Populism, 235; early twentieth century, 322
Porte, Joel, 72
Porter, Cole, 542
Porter, Edwin S., The Great Train Robbery (film), 440
Porter, Katherine Anne, 425 -26, 430; The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, 425-26; Old Mortality, 426; 'The Old Order,' 425-26; Pale Horse, Pale Rider, 426
Porter, Charles, True Grit, 461
Possession: love and, 95; politics of, James and, 165 -66
Possessions, materials, realists and, 187
Postbellum novels, 157 -58
Postcoloniality, 649, 651- 53; and marginality, 667
Post-Holocaust novels, 403
Postimpressionism, 313
Postindustrial culture, 485
Postmodern fiction, 690, 697 -725
Postmodernism, 327 -29, 515 -22, 679, 697; avant-garde and, 726; Roth and, 498; Western, 450
Postmodern realism, 521 -41
Postsructuralist theories, 700
