Post- World War II era, 485; immigrant novels, 404 -6
Potok, Chaim: The Chosen, 404, 504; My Name Is Asher Lev, 504
Potter, Alicia Rivero, 643
Poulin, Jacques, 572
Pound, Ezra, 312 -14, 316, 317, 329 30, 465 -66, 476, 691; Hemingway and, 321; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, 318, 329; 'Why Books?' 317; and World War I, 318
Powell, William W., Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing, 683 -86
Power: sexual, James and, 164 -65; of women, nineteenth-century ideas, 116, 124 -25; of words, views of, 79–80
Power relations: early American, 14; in Uncle Tom's Cabin, 144 -45
Powers, J. F., 403, 490 -91; Morte d'Urban, 491; Wheat That Springeth Green, 491
Powhatan, 30
Pratt, Linda Ray, 352
Pratt, Mary Louise, 'The Short Story: The Long and Short of It,' 536
Pratt, William, 755
Prentiss, Elizabeth Payson, 801
Presentational realism, 162
Prestige of authors, 684 -85, 689
Preston, Dickson J., Young Frederick Douglas: The Maryland Years, 40
Primitive identity, views of, 264
Primitive peoples, sociological study, 202
Primordial power, views of, 264
Principle, and authenticity of self, 123
Printed literature, and economic structure, 51
Printing technology, 49
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Prison, symbolism of, 176
Private interest, and general welfare, 50
Problem novels, mid- twentieth century, 490
Production-line techniques of authorship, 292 -93
Profession, writing as, 48 -49; Cooper and, 58; nineteenth century, 47, 67 -70
Professionalism: in intellectual life, 679; literary, 70, 691 -94; neutrality of, 196; of women novelists, nineteenth century, 64–65
Profits, in publishing, 680 -81, 683 -84, 686
Progressive Era, women's status, 269
Proletarianism: early twentieth century, 331 -56; in fiction, 327, 393, 400
Promotional campaigns, nineteenth century, 53
Property laws, and women, 143
Prose style, efficiency movement and, 477 -78
Prostitutes, reform societies, 137
Protestant elite, and social reform, 133, 146 -48
Protestant Reformation, 132
Protestant revivals, nineteenth century, 132
Protest fiction, 335; early twentieth century, 326 -27; environmentalist, 459 -60; and regionalism, 254 -55; Steinbeck's writing as, 442
Pseudo literacy, 693
Pseudonym, slave autobiography and, 42 -43
Psychoanalytic movement, 487
Psychological realism, James and, 167 -68
Psychology, Stein's studies, 211
Publication of postcolonial novels, 665 -66
Public issues, avant-grade fiction and, 732
Public sphere, personal life and, 50
Publishers, 52 -54, 287, 305, 679; of Canadian authors, 560; of dime novels, 292; Native Canadian, 577; nineteenth century, 48–49, 114 -15, 158; postmodern, 380; and regionalism, 251
Publishers Weekly, 287, 680; and Max Brand, 366
Puig, Manuel, 522, 626 -28, 642, 801; Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, 626; Heartbreak Tango, 626; Kiss of the Spider Woman, 627; Pubis Angelical, 626
Pulp magazines, 302, 359; detective fiction, 373
Pupin, Michael, From Immigrant to Inventor, 385
Pure Food Bill (1907), 238
Puritan autobiographies, 31 -33
Puritanism, domesticity and, 123
Puritans: and Native Americans, 32; and technology, 468
Putnam, Emily, 268
Putnam's, publishers, 53
Puzo, Mario, The Fortunate Pilgrim, 404 -5; The Godfather, 405
Pynchon, Thomas, 451, 520, 702 -3, 706, 716 -19, 726 -27, 801- 2; Gravity's Rainbow, 698, 704 -7, 717 -19; The Crying of Lot 49, 704, 717; V, 716- 17; Vineland, 464, 719
Quakers, autobiographical writings, 31
Quasi journalists, 56–57
Quebec: literature of, 562, 567 -73; women writers, 580 -81
Queen, Ellery, pseud., 802
Quick, Herbert, Vandemark's Folly, 441
Quiet Revolution, Canada, 570
Quinto Sol publishing house, 500 -501
Raban, Jonathan, 676 -77
Race, 409 -11; American society and, 217, 411 -14; gender and, 283 -84; proletarianism and, 346 -50; regionalism and, 420 -36; romance and, 89 -109; science fiction and, 361; sociology and, 190, 205; Southernerns and, 416 -20; Warren and, 415 -16
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Race (Continued) — and identity, 106, 243 -44, 409; novels of, 421 -25, 494 -95; Twain and, 246
Race relations, realist novels of, 178 81, 187 -88
Racial violence, 412; fear of, 145 -46
Racism, 91 -92, 263, 655; of Cather, 280; of Hemingway, 321 -22; in Jamaican novels, 591; of Mailer, 493; mid-twentieth century, 490; migrations and, 659; Mukherjee and, 677; nineteenth century, 153 54; post-Civil War, 248 -49; proletarianism and, 333, 351; science fiction and, 362 -63; Twain and, 245 -46; women and, 269, 273 75
Radway, Janice, 301
Rage, Wright and, 431
Railroad: strikes, nineteenth century, 158; symbolism of, 262 -63
Ramchand, Kenneth, The West Indian Novel and Its Background, 593 -94
Ransom, John Crowe, 416, 488
Rap performances, 540
Ravage, M. E., an American in the Making, 385
Ravenscroft, Arthur, 671
Ravits, Martha, 458
Reading, 453 -45, 693; postmodernism and, 702 -3
Reading habits, early American, 13
