Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

1198 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

education I:27
Great Expectations I:337–341
illness I:56
individual and society I:60
Oliver Twist I:341–344
regret I:88
rejection I:88
social class I:102
Tale of Two Cities I:345–348
Dickinson, Emily I:50, 113, 210, 348–351
dignity II:470, 646
Dinesen, Isak I:66, 351–354
discrimination
Bluest Eye II:797
Burger’s Daughter II:494
God of Small Things III:911
Song of Solomon II:802
Souls of Black Folk I:376, 377
Disgrace (Coetzee) I:291
distributive justice I:65–66
Divine Comedy, The (Dante) I:24, 36, 92,
311–314
divine justice II:783–784
“Divinity School Address, The”
(Emerson) I:397–400
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe) II:732–735
death I:24
futility I:38
pride I:83
religion I:91
science and technology I:96
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) I:59
Doctorow, E. L. I:354
Doll ’s House, A (Ibsen) II:588–591
domestic violence II:802
Don Juan (Byron) I:243–246
Donne, John I:54
doppelgänger II:809
Dos Passos, John I:97, 354–358
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor I:37, 59, 358–361
double entendre II:621
doublethink III:855
Douglass, Frederick I:36–37, 78, 361–
365, 393
Dover Beach (Arnold) I:38
Doyle, Arthur Conan I:365–369; III:876
Dracula (film) III:1032
Dracula (Stoker) I:73, 84, 100;
III:1032–1035
drama. See plays
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (Browning)
I:236
Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin)
I:250–254
dreams II:458; III:833
Dreiser, Theodore I:102, 369–376
“Drug Called Tradition, A” (Alexie) I:144

drugs II:646; III:847–849

Drummond, Henry I:104

Drum Taps (Whitman) III:1134

Dryden, John I:47

Dubliners ( Joyce) II:628–633

DuBois, W. E. B. I:85, 376–380; II:794

Dunbar, Paul Laurence I:162

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau I:14

Dusklands (Coetzee) I:291

Dutchman ( Jones) I:85; II:625–628

duty III:940, 941, 1058

“Dynamic Theory of History, A” (Adams)

I:133

dystopian literature

Anthem III:894–897

Handmaid ’s Tale I:175–178

hope I:52

parenthood I:81

E

“Easter 1916” (Yeats) III:1187–1190

Ecclesiastes (biblical book) I:39

ecofeminism I:180–181; II:656–659

education I:25–28

“American Scholar” I:393–395

Annie John II:651

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

II:461

Autobiography of Malcolm X II:505–506

Bell Jar III:871–872

Beloved II:794, 795

Bend in the River III:821

Black Boy III:1180

Brave New World II:586–587

Cane III:1074

Color Purple III:1114

David Copperf ield I:335–336

Don Juan I:243–244

Education of Henry Adams I:130–131

Fahrenheit 451 I:220–221

Frankenstein III:977–978

House for Mr. Biswas III:826

Jane Eyre I:229–230

To Kill a Mockingbird II:702–704

Lesson before Dying II:470

Little Women I:140–141

Lucky Jim I:151–152

parenthood I:79

Poisonwood Bible II:661, 662

Pygmalion III:974–975

Rainbow II:693–694

Small Place II:655

Souls of Black Folk I:379

Tin Drum II:499

Tree Grows in Brooklyn III:995, 997

Tripmaster Monkey II:664

Up from Slavery III:1116–1117

Vindication of the Rights of Woman

III:1167–1169

Wuthering Heights I:234

Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams)

I:130–133

Edwards, Audrey I:109

Edwards, Jonathan I:46, 380–384

egalitarianism II:695

ego I:47

Ehrenreich, Barbara I:50–51

Eliot, George

childhood I:11

individual and society I:60

success I:108

Eliot, T. S. I:384–390

alienation I:3–4

community I:20

“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

I:384–387

memory I:70–71

religion I:92

stages of life I:107

tradition I:116

Waste Land I:387–390

Elizabethan era

Julius Caesar III:935, 936

Midsummer Night’s Dream III:949

Taming of the Shrew III:964

The Tempest III:967

Ellison, Ralph I:14, 390–393

emancipation II:623, 794, 795

Emerson, Ralph Waldo I:393–404

“American Scholar” I:393–397

“Civil Disobedience” III:1059

“Divinity School Address” I:397–400

Grapes of Wrath III:1015

As I Lay Dying II:425

Main Street II:713

nature I:75

Room with a View II:453

“Self-Reliance” I:400–404

survival I:113

Émile, or On Education (Rousseau) I:26

Emma (Austen) I:87, 185–189

empiricism I:325

“Endymion” (Keats) II:640

Engels, Friedrich I:16

England

Henry V III:931–934

North and South II:477

Rape of the Lock III:884, 887

Percy Bysshe Shelley III:981–982

“England in 1819” (Shelley) III:981

Enlightenment

Common Sense III:861–863

education I:26

Gulliver’s Travels III:1041–1042