A History of American Literature

874 Index

fascism (cont’d)

naturalist tendencies to,

275, 278, 279

and Pound, 318, 371

fate vs. free will, in James,

262, 264–267

The Father (Olds), 567

The Fathers (Tate), 433, 437

Faulkner, William, 316, 319,

415–420

and Anderson, 342, 344

on Hollywood, 515

influence, 573, 588, 783

precursors, 155

Fauset, Jessie, 477, 491

Fearing, Kenneth, 449, 452

“February in Sidney”

(Komunyakaa), 650

Federal Theater Project, 320

Federal Writers’ Project, 491,

492, 494

Federalist papers (Hamilton,

Jay, and Madison), 84

Federman, Raymond, 719

The Feminine Mystique

(Friedan), 525

feminism

18th century, 70

19th century, 91, 92,

119–121, 154–161,

161–163, 288–289

Declaration of Sentiments,

157

feminism: 20th century

and crime novels, 731–732

and Mailer, 571

Native American writers,

782

postwar, 525

postwar literature,

539–540, 566, 597,

624–625, 718, 731

and science fiction, 738,

739–740

and Walker, 672

see also gender issues;

women

“A Fence” (Sandburg), 446

Fences (Wilson), 667

Fenollosa, Ernest, 369

Fer-de-Lance (Stout), 729

Fergusson, Elizabeth Graeme

(“Laura”), 53

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence,

606–607, 608, 826

Fern, Fanny (Sarah Payson

Willis), 157–159

Fernandez, Roberto, 763

“Ferry” (Zukofsky), 364

Field, Joseph M., 110

Fields, Annie, 236

Fields, James T., 236

Fierstein, Harvey, 698

Fifth Chinese Daughter

(Wong), 469–470

5th of July (Wilson), 694

Filipino immigrants, 470

writings, 471–472, 776

“Filling Station” (Bishop),

551

The Financier (Dreiser), 338

Finch, Annie, 624–625

Fink, Mike, 110–111

Finn, Huckleberry (The

Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn),

227–229

Fire!!, 478, 491

Fire in the Flint (White), 479

The Fire Next Time (Baldwin),

655

Fire Sermon (Morris), 575

Firehouse Theatre, 688

“First Fig” (Millay), 389

First World War, see World

War I

“The Fish” (Bishop), 551–552

Fisher, Rudolph, 478, 732

Fisher, Vardis, 574

Fitch, Clyde, 421

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 319, 336,

403–408, 572

friends, 443

literary treatments, 687

precursors, 98, 342

Fitzgerald, Zelda, 403, 404,

407, 687

Fitzhugh, George, 149

Fitzhugh, William, 50

The Fixer (Malamud), 577

Flaubert, Gustave, 262

Fleming, Henry (The Red

Badge of Courage),

276–277

Fletcher, Bridget

Richardson, 54

Fletcher, John Gould, 366

Flight (White), 479

Flight to Canada (Reed),

658, 659

Flint, F. S., 360

The Floating Opera (Barth),

710

The Floating World

(Kadohata), 774

Flowering Judas (Porter), 400

The Flowering of the Rod

(H. D.), 362

F. O. B. (Hwang), 698

Foer, Jonathan Safran,

797–798

folklore

African-American,

480–481, 670

German, 93

Hispanic Southwest,

139–141

Sioux, 296

see also myths and legends

folksongs, 197–199

Fool for Love (Shepard),

692, 693

Fool’s Crow (Welch), 787

Foote, Julia A. J., 282

for colored girls (Shange), 650

For My People (Walker),

498–499

“For Once, Then Something”

(Frost), 353

“For the Marriage of Faustus

and Helen” (Crane), 396

“For the Union Dead”

(Lowell), 556

For Whom the Bell Tolls

(Hemingway), 411–412

Ford, Gerald: literary

treatments, 584

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