A History of American Literature

892 Index

New York City: literary

treatments (cont’d)

Hijuelos, 762

Himes, 732–733

Irving, 93–94

Jen, 766–767

Kincaid, 678

Laviera, 758

McKay, 479

Naylor, 675

O’Hara, 617, 618

Paley, 594

post-9/11, 795–828

Reznikoff, 365

Simon, 696

Wharton, 327–330

New York poets, 615–623, 725

New York trilogy (Auster),

586–587

Newfoundland: literary

treatments, 598

newspapers

19th century, 91, 139, 223

alternative culture, 657

anti-slavery, 154–155

Jewish, 300

Native American, 92,

139, 234

Newton, Benjamin F., 214

“next to god of course

america” (cummings),

391–392

Nexus (Miller), 636

“Nick and the Candlestick”

(Plath), 548

Nick of the Woods (Bird),

99–100

Niedecker, Lorine, 365–366

Nielsen, Helen, 729

The Nigger (Sheldon), 421

Nigger Heaven (Van

Vechten), 480

‘night, Mother (Norman), 697

A Night in Acadie (Chopin),

244

The Night of the Iguana

(Williams), 687

“Night Inexpressible”

(Campo), 628

Night Over Taos (Anderson),

424

Night Rider (Warren), 441

Nightwood (Barnes), 402–403

nihilism

and Gardner, 715

in naturalist works, 277

in postmodernism, 715, 718

see also alienation;

existentialism

9/11

as the Fall, 795

literary treatments,

795–828

Nine Worthies, 93

1919 (Dos Passos), 408,

409–410

Nisei Daughter (Sone),

770, 774

Nixon, Richard, 521, 526–527

noir fiction, 728

The No-No Boy (Okada), 771

Norman, Marsha, 697

Norris, Frank, 271, 272–275,

276, 278, 281, 336, 337

North American Review, 206,

262, 290

North Carolina, Byrd on, 52

North Georgia Review, 457

The North Star, 130, 144, 163

North Star Country (Le

Sueur), 461

Northern Lights (O’Brien),

704

Northup, Solomon, 164

Norton, Charles Eliot, 206, 262

nostalgia

early 20th-century

prevalence, 315–317

reasons for prevalence, 231

nostalgia: literary treatments

Cather, 334–335

Fitzgerald, 405

Jewett, 235–238

Southern regionalists, 239,

241–242

Stickney, 271

traditionalists, 431–445

Twain, 224–231

Wolfe, 462–464

see also past

Notebook (Lowell), 556–557,

558

Notes for Echo Lake

(Palmer), 726

Notes on the State of Virginia

(Jefferson), 67–68

Notes Toward a Supreme

Fiction (Stevens), 381, 385

le nouveau roman, 719

Nova (Delany), 738–739

novels

dime novels, 223, 503–506

fact as basis of, 81, 82,

83, 87

first African-American, 163

first African-American

detective, 478

first by African-American

woman, 169–170

first by African-American

woman to sell 1

million-plus, 498

first Japanese-American, 771

first Native American, 472

first by Native American

woman, 475

James on, 263

realism, 224

novels: 18th century, 81–87

novels: 19th century

African-American,

161–171

early, 95–104, 154

late, 223, 290

mid-, 149–150, 151–154,

155, 159, 169–179

realist, 255–281

regionalist, 224–231,

235–239, 241, 244–251,

249–251, 254

women, 190–192, 193–194,

283–288, 295–296

novels: 20th century

African-American,

324–326, 477, 478–484,

498–503, 651–655,

657–663, 668–678

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