A History of American Literature

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African-American protest
poetry, 640–651
and Gold, 455
and Hemingway, 411–412
and Hurston, 488
and McKay, 479–480
and Native Americans,
779–795
in naturalist works, 272,
275, 278–279
political novels, 576
political poetry, 604
and Wright, 500
see also civil rights
movement;
Communism;
democracy; feminism;
government, American;
Marxism; socialism
Pollitt, Katha, 827
Pollock, Jackson, 603, 620
polyphonic prose, 359, 366
Pomo people, 11
Ponca people, 12
Pontellier, Edna (The
Awakening), 245–247
Poor White (Anderson), 344
Pop. 1280 (Thompson), 728
population, 19th century,
88–89, 220
populism, early 20th century,
446–448
Porgy (Heyward), 422
“The Portent” (Melville), 190
Porter, Katherine Anne,
400–401
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth),
580–581
“Portrait” (Bogan), 389
The Portrait of a Lady (James),
262, 264–267, 269
Posey, Alexander Lawrence,
234–235
Posey, George (The Heroes),
437
Possessing the Secret of Joy
(Walker), 674
The Postman Always Rings
Twice (Cain), 509

postmodernism, 531, 717
definition, 524
immigrant writings, 743,
745, 754
Native American writings,
791–792
poetry, 720–727
prose, 585–586, 587,
705–720
and science fiction, 739
poststructuralism, 719–721
Pound, Ezra, 318, 367–371
and Frost, 350
and Hemingway, 412
and Imagism, 359–361
influence, 451, 616
and Objectivism, 363
on political rhetoric, 816
and Vorticism, 359
on Whitman, 207, 212
power
Mailer on, 570–571
naturalists on, 272–281
Rukeyser on, 393
The Power of Sympathy
(Brown), 81–82
Powers, J. F., 703
Powers, Richard, 804
Powhatan people, 26
The Prairie (Cooper), 96,
97–99
“The Prairies” (Bryant), 202
Praise to the End (Roethke),
553
Precaution (Cooper), 95
Prejudices (Mencken), 340
Prelude (Wordsworth), 211
Preparatory Meditations
before My Approach to
the Lords Supper
(Taylor), 43
Prescott, William Hinckling,
100
The Present State of Virginia
(Jones), 50
The Presidential Papers
(Mailer), 568
Presley (The Octopus),
272, 274

Price, Reynolds, 797
The Price (Miller), 682
The Price of Parthia
(Godfrey), 421
pride: literary treatments
Cable, 249
Hawthorne, 178, 179
primitivism
and Dickey, 443–444
in naturalists, 273, 274,
279, 280
in Roethke, 553–554
The Princess Casamassima
(James), 267
prison life: literary
treatments, 649
The Prisoner of Sex
(Mailer), 571
private eyes, see detective
stories and novels
The Pro-Slavery Argument,
150
Proctor, John (The Crucible),
681–682
“Proem” (Whittier), 147–148
The Professor at the Breakfast
Ta b l e (Holmes), 205
progress
Southern regionalists
on, 241
and US economy, 220
and Westerns, 503, 504
prohibition, 315–316
projectivist poetry, see Black
Mountain writers
proletarian literature, 454, 455
The Promised Land
(Antin), 301
protest, postwar, 525–526
African-American writing,
640–651, 662, 666–667
literary treatments, 571
Proulx, E. Annie, 597–598
Proust, Marcel, 400
Providence, Rhode Island, 34
Provincetown Players, 402,
427, 455
provincial life: literary
treatments, 340–345, 439

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