A History of American Literature

870 Index

Dell, Floyd, 343, 454

Deloria, Vine, 782

Delta Wedding (Welty),

589–590

Delusions (Berryman), 560

democracy

Cooper on, 98–99

Lindsay on, 447

Sandburg on, 446–447

Democracy (Adams), 290

Democracy in America (de

Tocqueville), 123

Depression, Great, 317–318

Depression, Great: literary

treatments

drama, 683, 684, 696

novels, 464–466, 508–509,

596

poetry, 448–449, 543–544

Derrida, Jacques, 720

Descartes, René, 59

A Description of New England

(Smith), 25, 27

Desire under the Elms

(O’Neill), 427

“Désirée’s Baby” (Chopin),

244

Dessa Rose (Williams), 676

detective magazines, 339, 727

detective stories and novels,

107, 505–507, 727–734

first African-American,

478, 732

postmodern, 587, 715,

791–792

see also thrillers

Dew, Thomas, 149, 150

Dewey, John, 467

Dhalgren (Delany), 739

Di Donato, Pietro, 467–468

Di Palma, Ray, 722, 724

Di Prima, Diane, 566,

567, 824

The Dial, 115, 119–120, 122

The Diamond Cutters

(Rich), 539

diaries

Byrd, 52

Chesnut, 152–154

James (Alice), 261–262

Sewall, 48

Winthrop, 31

Woolman, 57

see also travel writings

A Diary from Dixie

(Chesnut), 152–154

Dick, Philip K., 738

Dickens, Charles, 91

Dickey, James, 443–444

Dickinson, Edward, 213

Dickinson, Emily, 212–218,

353, 390

on exultation and

madness, 639

and Higginson, 147

influence, 276, 783

literary treatments,

625, 626

and Lowell, 359

Dictee (Cha), 775

Didion, Joan, 597, 701

dime novels, 223, 503–506

Dimmesdale, Rev. Arthur

(The Scarlet Letter),

179, 180, 181

Dimple, Bill (The Contrast),

80–81

The Discovery and Conquest

of Terra Florida

(Gentleman of Elvas), 20

Discrete Series (Oppen),

364–365

The Disenchanted

(Schulberg), 407

A Disorder Peculiar to the

Country (Kalfus),

795, 798

Dispatches (Herr), 704–705

The Dispossessed (Le Guin),

738

dispossession: literary

treatments, 319, 779–795

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee,

777

The Divine Pilgrim (Aiken),

366

divine providence

and Douglass, 130

and Puritans, 29–30

see also Christianity;

religion

“Divinely Superfluous

Beauty” (Jeffers),

355–358

“The Diviners,” 627

“Diving into the Wreck”

(Rich), 539–540

“Division of Estate”

(Horton), 145

divorce: literary treatments

Austin, 299

Exley, 703

Howells, 256

Peacock, 625

“Diwali” (Seth), 627

Doctorow, E. L., 576

Dodd, Wayne, 824

Dodsworth (Lewis), 342

Dog Soldiers (Stone), 704

Dogeaters (Hagedorn), 776

The Dolphin (Lowell), 557

Dominican-Americans:

writings, 761–762

Donald Duk (Chin), 770

Donleavy, J. P., 718

Dooley monologues (Dunne),

299–300, 302

Doolittle, Hilda, see H. D.

The Doorman (Arenas), 763

Dorn, Ed, 603, 604–605

Dorris, Michael, 782

Dos Passos, John, 408–410

Double Indemnity (Cain), 509

Double Star (Heinlein), 736

Douglas, Ellen, 595, 596

Douglass, Frederick, 127–130,

134

and abolitionism, 128,

129–130, 144, 146

influence, 662

and magazines, 92

and Truth, 160

writings, 128–130,

163–164

Dove, Rita, 649–650, 819

Dr Zay (Phelps), 287

Drake, Joseph Rodman, 93

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