Wells, H. G., 249, 361; The War of the Worlds, 362
Wells, Ida B., 236, 269
Welty, Eudora, 817- 18
West, Cornel, 521, 699
West, James L. W., American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900, 685
West, Nathanael, 451, 818; Anderson and, 327; The Day of the Locust, 327; Miss Lonelyhearts, 327
West: deromanticization of, 261 -63; idealization of, 255, 259 -61
Westbrook, Max, 442, 443
Western fiction: Canadian, 562 -65; dime novels, 294- 97; formulaic, 366 -71; gentrification of, 304; late twentieth century, 437 -64
Western Story Magazine, 302
West Indies, 586; Canadian novels set in, 584. See also under Caribbean
Wharton, Edith, 267, 270, 273, 275 77, 282, 283, 283, 818- 29; The Age of Innocence, 276; The House of Mirth, 225; The Touchstone, 276
Wheat, symbolism of, 262 -63
Wheeler, Edward L., 296, 299, 438; Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills, 301
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Whistler, Henry, 89
White, E. B., The Elements of Style, 478
White, Edmund: The Beautiful Room Is Empty, 553; A Boy's Own Story, 551, 552 -53
White, Walter, 411, 420; The Fire in the Flint, 420
White City, 189 -91
Whitehead, Alfred North, 314
Whiteness, symbolism of, 106, 108 -9, 189-91
Whiteside, Thomas, 680, 686, 687
White Southern writers, and blacks, 417 -20
Whitman, Elizabeth, 16
Whitman, Sarah Helen, 104
Whitman, Walt, 8, 104; and Civil War, 157; Franklin Evans, 138; Leaves of Grass, preface to, 104; Specimen Days, 157
Whittaker, Frederick, 285, 293; Larry Locke, the Man of Iron; or, A Fight for Fortune. A Story of Labor and Capital, 301
Whyte, William H., The Organization Man, 485
Wiebe, Rudy, The Temptations of Big Bear, 563
Wilder, Billy, Double Indemnity (film), 378
Wilderness, importance of, in Western fiction, 459
Wild West Weekly, 296
Willard, Frances, 236
Williams, Denis, 597; Other Leopards, 598
Williams, Jeanne, 440
Williams, Raymond, 304, 526; Keywords, 286; Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 481 82
Williams, Tennessee, 430
Williams, William Carlos, 311
Williamsburg trilogy, Fuchs, 393
Williamson, Jack, The Humanoids, 365 -66
Willis, N. P., 63
Willis, Sara Payson. See Fern, Fanny
Wilmington, North Carolina, Riot (1898), 179
Wilson, Amrit, Finding a Voice, 676
Wilson, Augusta Evans, St. Elmo, 110
Wilson, Edmund, 323
Wilson, Ethel, Swamp Angel, 564
Wilson, Harriet E. Adams, 282, 819; Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, 55–56, 127 -28, 152 -53
Wilson, Sloan, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 507 -8
Wilson, Woodrow, 411
Winchell, Mark Royden, 451
Winther, Sophus K., Take All to Nebraska, 441
Winwar, Frances. See Vinciguerra, Francesca
Wiseman, Adele, 574
Wister, Owen, 304, 819; The Virginian, 259 -60, 304, 368 -70, 439
Woiwode, Larry, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, 461
Wolfe, Thomas, 575
Wolitzer, Meg, This Is Your Life, 466 -67
Wolman, John, 31
Womanhood: nineteenth-century ideal, 57, 60, 65, 118 -19; Victorian stereotype, 219
Woman Movement, 270
Women: abolitionists, 142 -43; and art, 272 -73; change in status, 298; colonial, education of, 657; early American views, 15–19; exploitation of, nineteenth century, 152; idealization of, slavery and, 102; metaphoric exile, 651; moral superiority of, 124 26; nineteenth century, 50, 114, 142-43, 276; and social change, 268 -70; and social reform, 236; Southern, 424 -25; and temperance movement, 137; Victorian ideal, 279; West Indian, 594; Wright and, 433 -34
--- African American, 268, 269; and domesticity, 127-28; Hurston and, 423 -24
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Women (Continued)
--- as audience, 688 -89; for dime novels, 297, 301
--- fictional representations: in adventure fiction, 378; in detective novels, 371 -73, 376 -78; in frontier novels, 438; by Hemingway, 322; in Latin American fiction, 615; by Poe, 94 95, 97, 101 -2; in realist fiction, 187, 200 -201; in Western fiction, 367 -68, 371
--- immigrant, 269; suffragists and, 126; as writers, 273
--- status of: nineteenth century, 142 43; post-World War II, 486; reform novels and, 230- 32, 235 -36; in slavery, 153
--- work of, 268, 269; antebellum novels and, 51; domestic ideology and, 125 -26; 1930s, 338
--- as writers, 5, 270 -84, 338, 694 -95, 695; of adventure narratives, 52; African American, 270, 173, 283, 421 -25, 496; Canadian, 561; Cather and, 278 -79; of detective stories, 297, 373; of dime novels, 297; and divorce, 143 -44; of experimental fiction, 699; Hawthorne and, 69; immigrant, 273; Irish American, 397 -98; Italian American, 398, 399; Latin American, 623 -25, 629, 633 -47; male writers and, 62 63; Native American, autobiographical writings, 45; nineteenth century, 46, 56 -57, 59 -60, 110, 114, 282 83; Norris's view, 267 -68; Poe and, 70; postmodern, 698, 723; professionalism of, 64 -65; of proletarian fiction, 333; Southern, 425 -26; of technological utopias, 475; of Western fiction, 367-68, 457 -58, 462; working class, 350 -56
Women's clubs, 268
Women's magazines, 303
Women's movement, abolitionism and, 142-43
Women's narratives, in story papers, 289 -90
Women's novels: Canadian, 579 -81; Caribbean, 603 -4; detective novels and, 373; nineteenth century, 110 11; post-World War II, 505 -7; temperance themes, 138 -40
Women's suffrage: domestic ideology and, 126 -27; Emerson and, 131
Wong, Jade Snow, Fifth Chinese Daughter, 500
