Index 859The Alphabet (Silliman), 724
Alphabetical Africa (Abish),
719
Alsop, George, 36
Altenderfer, Melissa, 819
alternative culture, see
culture, alternative
Alther, Lisa, 719
Alvarez, Julia, 761–762
Amazing Stories, 736
The Ambassadors (James),
268, 729
The Amber Gods (Spofford),
286
ambiguity, Welty on, 589
America
19th century, 88–92,
219–224
20th century, 308–320,
519–531
20th-century
disillusionment with,
270–271
20th-century immigrants
on, 467–468, 471–472
Adams on, 292, 308–309
American identity, Roth
on, 582
Crèvecoeur on, 63
as Eden, 2–3, 16, 22–27, 49,
97, 821
ethnic mix, 18th century, 46
and Europe, literary
treatments of contrast,
256, 263–264, 268–269
Franklin on, 46, 62–63
Freneau on, 78
Holocaust survivors on,
742–743
James on, 262–267, 269
Jefferson on, 66–67
as land of opportunity, 62
Laviera on, 758
Mailer on, 568
Martí on, 295
Miller on, 636
Morrison on, 668
Olson on, 600–601
as place of exile, 28, 51as place to be civilized, 29
radicals on, 448–462
Reznikoff on, 365
Sandburg on, 446–447
Shepard on, 691–693
Stein on being American,
398–399
Steinbeck on, 465–466
Whitman on, 78, 207–212,
448
Wilson on, 694
Wolfe on, 462–464
see also American
character; American
dream; government,
American; myths and
legends: American
“America and I” (Yezierska),
466, 467
America Hurrah (van Itallie),
689
America is in the Heart
(Bulosan), 471–472
América’s Dream (Mohr),
760–761
The American (James),
263–264
American Anti-Slavery
Society, 157
American Buffalo (Mamet),
694
American character
development of, 49
early 20th century, 316
Franklin on, 61–62
Revolutionary period
writers on, 78, 80–81
American Civil War
and African-Americans,
144, 145
end and effects, 219
as the Fall, 229
Lincoln on Stowe as
cause, 172
American Civil War: literary
treatments
diaries, 152–154
novels, 163, 438–439,
512–514poetry, 208, 239–240
stories, 259–260
The American Clock (Miller),
683
American dream
and African-Americans,
144, 644
and capitalism, 222–223
American dream: literary
treatments
Albee, 690
Brautigan, 638
Cheever, 572
Douglass, 130
Fitzgerald, 405–406
Franklin, 61
Mamet, 695
Miller, 680–681, 683
Mohr, 760–761
O’Neill, 806
Warren, 439
Westerns, 504–505
An American Dream (Mailer),
572
The American Dream (Albee),
690
The American Frugal
Housewife (Child), 154
American Hunger (Wright),
500
American Indian Stories
(Bonnin), 298
American literature, histories
of, 100, 107
American Mercury, 339
American Pastoral (Roth), 582
American Psycho (Ellis), 735
American Review, 320
American Revolution, 62–63,
65, 66
writings of the period,
60–87
The American Rhythm
(Austin), 298
“The American Scholar”
(Emerson), 115, 117–118
American Tabloid (Ellroy), 731
An American Tragedy
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