Index 863The Bondswoman’s Narrative
(Crafts), 166–169
Bonifacius; or, Essays to Do
Good (Mather), 46–47
Bonnin, Gertrude, 297–298
Bontemps, Arna, 477,
486–488
The Book of Daniel
(Doctorow), 576
Book of Life (Truth), 160
Book of My Nights (Lee), 567
Border Romances (Simms),
149–150
Border trilogy (McCarthy),
587–588
Borenstein, Emily, 825
Bornstein, Jonah, 821
The Bostonians (James), 267
Boudinot, Elias, 138–139
Bourne, Daniel, 824
Bourne, Randolph, 453–454,
467
Bowers, Edgar, 549
Bowles, Paul, 573
Box (Albee), 691
“Boy with His Hair Cut
Short” (Rukeyser), 393
Boyle, Kay, 449
The Boys in the Band
(Crowley), 698
Bracebridge Hall (Irving), 94
Bracey, Ishmon, 497
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry,
77, 84–85
Brackett, Leigh, 729
Bradbury, Ray, 737–738
Bradford, Elizabeth Sowle, 36
Bradford, William, 28–33, 34
Bradley, David, 662, 663
Bradstreet, Anne, 39–41
and Berryman, 558
Braithwaite, William Stanley,
492–493
Brand, Max, 505
A Brand Plucked from the Fire
(Foote), 282
Brando, Marlon, 522
Braque, Georges, 399
Brautigan, Richard, 631, 638Brazil (Updike), 584
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(Capote), 701
“Breaking Silence”
(Mirikitani), 772
“Breaking Tradition”
(Mirikitani), 773
Brer Rabbit (Uncle Remus
stories), 241
Brewster, Maude (The
Sea-Wolf), 280
The Bridge (Crane), 319,
396–397
A Bridge Between Us
(Shigekuni), 774
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(Wilder), 423
“A Brief Sketch of the Life
and Character of David
Walker” (Garnet), 143
Bright Lights, Big City
(McInerney), 586
Brighton Beach Memoirs
(Simon), 696
British cultural influence,
77–78, 135
on Bryant, 202
Emerson on, 114
British imperialism
Franklin on, 62
Freneau on, 77–78
Broadway, 666, 678–679, 680,
685, 688
Broadway Bound (Simon),
696
Broadway Journal, 107
Brodkey, Harold, 588
Bromden (One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest), 639
Brook Farm, 119
Brooks, Cleanth, 434
Brooks, Gwendolyn,
495–496
Brooks, Van Wyck, 316
Broom, 484
Brother Antoninus, see
Everson, William
Broumas, Olga, 567
Brown, Andrea Carter, 820Brown, Charles Brockden,
85–86
Brown, Dee, 525
Brown, Jake (Home to
Harlem), 479–480
Brown, John (abolitionist)
and abolition, 91, 126,
143, 147
“John Brown’s Body,” 199
literary treatments, 126,
190, 439, 717
Brown, John (slave), 164
Brown, Larry, 587, 702
Brown, Norman O., 611
Brown, Sterling A., 491–492
Brown, William Hill, 81–82,
85–87
Brown, William Wells, 163,
164–166, 282
Brown Girl, Brownstones
(Marshall), 677
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
359
Brownson, Orestes, 119
Bryan, Mary E., 92
Bryan, William Jennings, 447
Bryant, William Cullen, 91,
202–203
Buchan, Major Lewis (The
Fathers), 437
Buchanan, Daisy (The Great
Gatsby), 404, 405, 406
Buchanan, James: literary
treatments, 584
Buchanan, Tom (The Great
Gatsby), 405, 406–407
Buddhism, 610, 614, 632
buffalo, in Native American
stories, 5, 7–8, 11
“Buffalo Bill” (Buntline), 504
Bukowski, Charles, 631,
635–636
Bull-by-himself (Blackfoot
character), 7
bullfighting, and Hemingway,
414
Bullins, Ed, 665–666
Bullock, William, 24–25
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