884 IndexThe Land of Little Rain
(Austin), 299
Langley, Samuel P., 292
language
and Barth, 711–712
and Burroughs, 634–635
Dove on, 649
Duncan on, 606
and El Guindi, 811–812
and Foster Wallace, 718
Maclow on, 721
and Mamet, 695
and Native American
writers, 780–786
and Walker, 674
Welty on, 589–590
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E,
722–723
language, transrational, 720
“Language” Poetries, 722
language poetry, 720–727
Lanier, Sidney, 239–240
Lapcharoensap, Rattawut, 804
Lapham, Col. Silas (The Rise
of Silas Lapham),
256–257
Larcom, Lucy, 200, 201
Lardner, Ring, 423, 510
Larsen, Nella, 480, 482–484
Larsen, Wolf (The Sea-Wolf),
279, 280
Last Exit to Brooklyn
(Selby), 703
“The Last Leaf ” (Holmes), 205
The Last of the Mohicans
(Cooper), 96
The Last Poets, 647
The Last Tycoon (Fitzgerald),
403, 408
Latino/a writers, 757–763
Laudonnière, René Goulaine
de, 17–18
“Laura,” see Fergusson,
Elizabeth Graeme
Laviera, Tato, 758, 759
The Law of Civilization and
Decay (Adams), 291
Lawrence, D. H., 310, 312, 635
Lawson, John Howard, 424Le Guin, Ursula, 738, 739, 824
Le Sueur, Meridel, 457,
459–461, 463
Leatherstocking Tales
(Cooper), 95–98
Leaves from My Life
(Cahan), 301
“Leaves from the Mental
Portfolio of an Eurasian”
(Eaton), 305
Leaves of Grass (Whitman),
211–212
lectures, public, 91, 146, 225
Ledbetter, Huddie
(“Leadbelly”), 496
Lee, Chang-Rae, 734
Lee, Chin Yang, 764
Lee, Don L., see Madhubuti,
Haki R.
Lee, Li-Young, 567–568
Lee, Manfred, 507
Lee, Mary Paik, 775
The Left Hand (Le Guin),
738
legal procedural novels, 735
legal world: literary
treatments, 703
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
(Irving), 93, 94
Lehman, David, 821
Leithauser, Brad, 623,
628–629
Lennon, John, 664
Lensman novels (Smith), 736
Leonard, Elmore, 730, 731
lesbianism: literary
treatments
blues songs, 497
Native American
writings, 782
postwar poetry, 567, 624
Less Than Zero (Ellis), 586
A Lesson Before Dying
(Gaines), 660
Letters (Barth), 710, 712
Letters from an American
Farmer (Crèvecoeur), 63
Letters from New York
(Child), 155“The Letters of Jonathan
Oldstyle, Gent.”
(Irving), 93
Letters on the Equality of
the Sexes (Grimké),
156–157
Letters to Catharine Beecher
(Weld), 156
Letting Go (Roth), 581
Levan, Kelly, 820
Levertov, Denise, 360, 546,
602, 615
Levine, Anne-Marie, 820
Levine, Philip, 543–544
Levitation (Ozick), 743
Lewis, Richard, 55, 56
Lewis, Sinclair, 340–342
The Liberator (20th-century
magazine), 454
The Liberator (anti-slavery
journal), 89, 128, 144,
145
The Liberties (Howe), 722
liberty and liberation
Cisneros on, 755–756
Dos Passos on, 410
Foster on, 83
Herbert on, 737
James on, 264, 266–267
Johnson on, 662
naturalists on, 272
Plath on, 562
pro-slavers on, 151
Winthrop on, 31
see also individualism
“Liberty Further Extended”
(Haynes), 72
liberty of conscience,
Williams on, 34
Lie Down in Darkness
(Styron), 573
Life and Adventures of
Joaquin Murieta (Ridge),
134, 472
The Life, History and Travels
of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh
(Copway), 136
“Life in the Iron Mills”
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