A History of American Literature

898 Index

“Prufrock, The Love Song of

J. Arthur” (Eliot), 372,

373

Prynne, Hester (The Scarlet

Letter), 179–182

psychosis: literary

treatments, 728

see also mental illness

The Public Burning (Coover),

717

Public Theatre, 698

publishing industry

19th century, 92, 223,

242, 503

20th century, 505–506,

727, 730

Pudd’nhead Wilson, The

Tragedy of (Twain),

230, 231

Puerto Rican Obituary

(Pietri), 758

Puerto Rican Americans:

writings, 757–761

Pugilist Specialist (Shaplin),

813, 814–816

pulp magazines, 505–506, 727

Purdy, James, 586

Puritans and Puritanism

captivity narratives, 44

and Catholicism, 45

challenges to, 44

conspiracy theory, 46

and Hawthorne, 177, 179,

180–182

and Lowell, 555

on poetry, 36

poetry by, 36–44

values, 60

waning of influence, 46, 48

writings, 28–36, 46–48

“Putting the good things

away” (Piercy), 744–745

Puyat, Pauline (Tracks), 789

Pynchon, Thomas, 705–709,

710, 719

Quakers, 57, 148

Queen, Ellery (Frederic

Dannay), 507

Queenborough trilogy,

331–332

Queer (Burroughs), 633

Queneau, Raymond, 719

Quicksand (Larsen), 482, 483

Quiet Odyssey (Lee), 775

Quinney, John Wannuaucon,

137–138

Quotations from Chairman

Mao (Albee), 691

Rabbit novels (Updike),

583–585

“Rabbits: A Valentine,”

628–629

Rabe, David, 695–696

Rabinowitz, Anna, 822

race issues and relations

1919 riots, 476, 479

early 20th century, 314, 316

lynching, 479

South, 19th century, 221

race issues and relations:

literary treatments

Albee, 690

detective novels and

thrillers, 732–734

Douglas, 596

Lewis, 342

Mitchell, 513, 514

Oates, 594

Sheldon, 421

Shinn, 814

Smith, 457

Southern regionalists,

242–243, 244

Twain, 228

Warren, 439

see also African-

Americans; Hispanics;

immigrant experience;

Mexican-Americans;

Native Americans;

slavery

racial stereotyping

in Hopkins, 283

in Stowe, 175

radicalism, 20th century,

448–462

radio, spread of, 309–310

Ragtime (Doctorow), 576

railroads

initial effects, 89

late 19th century, 220

literary treatments,

274–275

Rain of Gold (Villaseñor),

756

Rainey, Ma, 492, 497

Raining Backwards

(Fernandez), 763

A Raisin in the Sun

(Hansberry), 664

Rakosi, Carl, 363

Ransom, John Crowe,

316, 388, 432, 433–437,

438

and Hecht, 549

and Tate, 437

and Warren, 440

rapping, 647, 648

Rauschenberg, Robert, 616

Rave (Broumas), 567

“The Raven” (Poe),

106, 109

Raven the Great (Tsimshian

character), 7

Rawlings, Marjorie

Kinnan, 327

Rawlins, Ezekiel “Easy”

(Mosley character),

733–734

Ray (Hannah), 704

Ray (Home to Harlem), 480

Ray, David, 822

readers, authors’ relationship

with

Barth, 709

Barthelme, 713

language poets, 720–721

McClure, 609

Morrison, 670–671

Nabokov, 746, 747

O’Hara, 617

postwar poets, 534

Whitman, 210–212

Wieners, 602

Reagan, Ronald, 520, 527

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