A History of American Literature

858 Index

African-Americans: literary

treatments

19th century, 104, 145–154,

154–156, 171–176,

227–229, 240–241,

243–244

20th century, 427, 449,

514–515

bibliographies, 477

colonial writers, 47, 72–73

Southern regionalists,

241–242, 243, 244, 250

see also African-Americans:

writings; slavery: literary

treatments

African-Americans: writings

18th century, 72–77

19th century, 141–145, 155,

159–171, 233–234,

251–255

19th-century women’s,

281–284, 294–295

bibliographies, 477

effect of white culture, 145

first detective novel,

478, 732

first novel, 163

first novel with first-person

narrator, 326

first published novel by

woman, 169–170

first short story, 162

first travel writing, 165

journals, 92

publication, problems of,

75, 77

regionalist, 232–234

slave narratives, 73–74,

75, 126–134, 160,

163–164, 167

slave writings, 54

spirituals, 196–197

studies, 492

African-Americans: writings

of the 20th century

Black Arts movement,

640–647

crime novels and thrillers,

732–734

early, 314–315, 316,

320–326

Harlem Renaissance and

beyond, 314–315,

476–503

postwar drama, 663–667

postwar poetry, 566, 567,

816, 817–818

postwar prose, 651–663,

668–678

protest writing, 640–651

science fiction, 738–739

slave narratives, modern

versions, 659, 661–662,

670, 676

After the Fall (Miller),

682–683

“Aftermath” (Longfellow), 204

The Age of Innocence

(Wharton), 328–329

The Age of Reason (Paine), 66

Agee, James, 319

Agnes of Sorrento (Stowe), 176

Agrarians, 433, 434, 439, 457

Ah, Wilderness (O’Neill), 428

Ahab, Captain (Moby-Dick),

98, 116, 185–188, 189

Ai, 565–566, 825

Aiiieeee!, 769

Aiken, Conrad, 366, 373

The Air-Conditioned

Nightmare (Miller), 636

“Ajanta” (Rukeyser), 393

“Alabanza: In Praise of Local

100” (Espada), 816,

818–819

Albee, Edward, 689–690

Alcott, Bronson, 115, 119,

122, 284

Alcott, Louisa M., 284–286

Alcuin (Brown), 85

Aldington, Richard, 359

Alexander, Meena, 777

Alexie, Sherman, 782,

792–794

Algarin, Miguel, 749

Alger, Horatio, 223

Algren, Nelson, 573

The Alhambra (Irving), 94

alienation

1950s society, 522

alienation: literary treatments

Albee, 689–690

Anderson, 344

beat poets, 610

Bowles, 573

Didion, 597

Gardner, 715–716

Kincaid, 677

Momaday, 784

Okada, 771

Salinger, 636–638

Shepard, 692–693

Sontag, 596–597

Tuckerman, 207

Updike, 582–585

Welch, 787

All (Zukofsky), 363–364

All God’s Chillun (O’Neill),

426–427

“All My Pretty Ones”

(Sexton), 539

All My Sons (Miller), 680

All the King’s Men (Warren),

441–442

All the Pretty Horses

(McCarthy), 587–588

Allan, John, 105

allegory

in Barth, 711

in Cabell, 340

in Hawthorne, 177, 181

in Melville, 183–184

reasons for prevalence,

29–30

in Shepard, 691

Allen, James Lane, 240, 241

Allen, Paula Gunn, 782

Allison, Dorothy, 595, 596

allusion

in Eliot, 204, 367, 372

in Longfellow, 204

in Melville, 185, 187–188

in Pound, 369

almanacs, 75

Crockett Almanacs,

110, 111

and Franklin, 62

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