A History of American Literature

Index 895

past: literary treatments

Alexei, 793–795

Berger, 715

Bradley, 662

Cather, 334–335

Eliot, 371

Faulkner, 316, 416

Fugitives, 431–445

Jeffers, 356–358

Macdonald, 730

Miller, 680–686

Morris, 575–576

Morrison, 669, 670, 671

Reed, 659

Shepard, 692, 693

Stegner, 574–575

Walker, 673

Welty, 589

Whitman, 211

Wideman, 662

Wilson (August), 667

Wilson (Lanford), 694

Wolfe, 463–464

see also history; nostalgia

pastoral themes and

pastoralism

18th-century poetry, 52,

56, 77–78

in Byrd, 51

in Cather, 334–335

in Cooper, 97

in images of the South, 150

in Jewett, 238

in McCarthy, 587

in Roth, 582

The Pat Hobby Stories

(Fitzgerald), 407–408

Patchen, Kenneth, 449,

452–453

Paterson (Williams), 363,

379–380

The Pathfinder (Cooper), 96

Patrick, Robert, 695

Patternist series (Butler), 739

Paul Kauvar (Mackaye), 421

Paulding, James Kirke, 93, 110

Pavelka, Anna, 334

Pawnee people, 97

Payne, John Howard, 421

Peabody, Elizabeth, 119

Peabody, Sophia, 179

Peacock, Molly, 624–625

Pearl (The Scarlet Letter), 179,

180, 181–182

The Pearl of Orr’s Island

(Stowe), 176

Peckham, Sir George, 22

The Penitent (Singer), 740,

741

Pennington, James W. C., 164

Percy, Walker, 586

Perelman, Bob, 721, 722, 723,

724

Perelman, S. J., 510–511

The Pérez Family (Bell), 763

Performance Group, 688

performance poetry, 641–642,

646–647, 650, 749–750,

757

periodicals, see journals and

periodicals

“Persephone” (Le Sueur),

459–460

Person, Place and Thing

(Shapiro), 532

Personal Narrative

(Edwards), 58

personality, Ashbery on, 622

Personism, 617

Petry, Ann, 497, 498

phanopoeia, 369

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart,

287–288

Philadelphia Fire

(Wideman), 662

Philip II, King of Spain, 17

Philip, King (Metacomet), 136

Philippines, immigration

from, 470

writings, 471–472, 776

Phillips, David Graham,

302, 303

Phillips, Jayne Anne, 595–596,

702

Phillips, Wendell, 128, 145,

146, 151

philosophical writings, 18th

century, 59–60

The Piano Lesson (Wilson),

667

The Piazza Tales (Melville),

189

picaresque narratives

19th century, 227–229

20th century, 653

Revolutionary period,

84–85

Picasso, Pablo, 398, 399

Picture Bride (Song), 764

Pictures of Country Life

(Cary), 192

Pictures of Fidelman

(Malamud), 577

Pictures of the Floating World

(Lowell), 359

Pierce, Franklin, 178

Piercy, Marge, 744–745

Pierre (Melville), 183, 189

Pierrepoint, Sarah, 60

Pietri, Pedro, 757–758

The Pilot (Cooper), 96

Pima people, 7

Pink and White Tyranny

(Stowe), 176

Pinsky, Robert, 565

The Pioneers (Cooper), 96

The Pit (Norris), 274

A Place to Come To

(Warren), 441

“Plain Language from

Truthful James” (Harte),

232

Plain Song (Morris), 575

“A Plan for Romantic Fiction”

(Norris), 273

plantation romances and

novels, 151–154, 499,

512–514, 589

and Styron, 573

The Planter’s Northern Bride

(Hentz), 151–152

“Planting a Sequoia” (Gioia),

630–631

Plath, Sylvia, 535, 540, 545,

548, 560–563, 625

Play It As It Lays (Didion),

597

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