Index 909Vigier, Rachel, 823
“The Village Blacksmith”
(Longfellow), 204
“A Village Dressmaker”
(Spofford), 286–287
Villagrá, Gaspar Pérez de, 19
Villanueva, Alma Luz, 756
Villarreal, José Antonio,
750–751
Villaseñor, Victor, 756
violence
African-American protest
writing, 640–651, 656
Capote, 701–702
“hardboiled” novels,
507–509
O’Connor, 590–592
postmodern novels,
714–715
postwar novels, 703, 704,
727–728
see also protest; war
The Violent Bear It Away
(O’Connor), 591
Violi, Paul, 825
Viramontes, Helena Maria, 757
Virgil, influence
on Cather, 334–335
on Lewis, 56
on Longfellow, 203
on Mather, 48
on Villagrá, 19
Virgin, Adams on, 291, 292
Virgin of Guadalupe, 56–57,
140
Virginia
18th century, 50–52
exploration and
colonization, 21–27
slavery, 89
Virginia (Hawkes), 714
Virginia Company, 25–27
The Virginian (Wister),
504–505
“Vision” (Hinojosa), 781
The Vision of Columbus
(Barlow), 55, 79
The Vision of Sir Launfal
(Lowell), 206Vizenor, Gerald, 782–783,
790–792
A Voice from the South
(Cooper), 295–296
Vonnegut, Kurt, 569, 735–736
Vorticism, 359
“Voyages” (Crane), 396Wadsworth, Rev. Charles, 214
Wagner, Richard, 665
Wah’kon-tah (Matthews), 474
Waiting for Lefty (Odets), 425
Waiting for the Verdict
(Davis), 196
Waiting to Exhale (McMillan),
676
“Wakefield” (Hawthorne), 178
“Waking Early Sunday
Morning” (Lowell), 547
Wakoski, Diane, 566, 567
Walden (Thoreau), 121–126
Walker, Alice, 482, 672–675,
759
Walker, David, 142–144
Walker, Margaret, 487, 497,
498–499
Wall Street Crash, 317
Wallace, David Foster, 588,
717–718
Wallace, Lew, 223
The Walls Do Not Fall (H. D.),
362
Walter, Eugene, 421
The Wapshot Chronicle
(Cheever), 572
war: literary treatments
19th-century prose,
259–260
Chesnut, 152–154
Crane, 276–277
Dos Passos, 408
Ginsberg, 526, 547, 611, 613
Harper, 163
Hemingway, 412, 413
Japanese-American writers,
770–772
Komunyakaa, 650
Le Guin, 738
Lowell, 526, 547, 555Mailer, 569, 570
Mason, 595
Miller, 682
Mitchell, 512–514
Moody, 272
postwar novels, 568–571,
704
postwar poetry, 532–534
Pynchon, 708
Rabe, 695–696
regionalists, 239–240
Styron, 573
Tate, 437–438
Vietnam War protest
poetry, 546–547
Whitman, 208
Ward, Diane, 724
Warner, Charles Dudley, 225
Warner, Susan, 92
Warren, Mercy Otis, 54
Warren, Robert Penn, 432,
438–442
Warshawski, Victoria
Iphigenia (Paretsky
character), 731–732
Washington, Booker T.,
320–323
Washington, Madison,
163–164
Wasserstein, Wendy, 697–698
The Waste Land (Eliot),
373–374
allusiveness, 204, 367, 373
and Fugitives, 437
and Pound, 367
publication, 363
and the sea, 372
Williams on, 376
Watch on the Rhine
(Hellman), 457
Waters, Frank, 574
Waters, Muddy, 645
The Waterworks (Doctorow),
576
Watten, Barrett, 722, 723
The Way to Rainy Mountain
(Momaday), 783
The Way to Wealth
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