A History of American Literature

872 Index

economy

19th century, 88–89, 220

20th century, 309–310,

317–318, 519–520,

523–524, 527, 796

Edelman, Bart, 821

Eden

Africa as, 74, 76

America as, 2–3, 16, 19,

22–27, 51, 97, 229

Eden, Martin (Martin Eden),

279, 281

Edgar Huntly (Brown), 85,

86–87

Edgerton, Clive, 704

education, Fuller on, 121

“The Education and

Elevation of the Colored

Race” (Harper), 162

The Education of Henry

Adams (Adams), 290,

291–293, 308

Edwards, Jonathan, 49,

58–60, 78

Egan, Jennifer, 804

Eggleston, Edward, 233

Einstein, Albert, 310

The Einstein Intersection

(Delany), 738

Eisenberg, Deborah, 795,

800–802, 804

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 520,

521, 522

Eisenstein, Sergei, 409

El Guindi, Yussef, 811

Elbow Room (McPherson), 662

Elder, Karl, 820

The Elder’s People (Spofford),

286

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

(Wolfe), 640

Elegy for a Lady (Miller), 683

Elijah Muhammad, 640, 656

Eliot, John, 47, 103

Eliot, T. S., 371–376

and allusion, 204, 367, 372

on Barnes, 402

influence, 437, 451, 494, 588

on James, 264, 269

on Modernism, 359

and Objectivism, 363

and Pound, 367

“Eliza Harris” (Harper), 161

Elizabeth the Queen

(Anderson), 424

Elkin, Stanley, 588, 718

Ellis, Bret Easton, 586, 735

Ellison, Ralph, 325, 496,

651–653

Ellroy, James, 730, 731

Elmslie, Kenward, 749

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,

114–122

on America, 1

and Hawthorne, 179

and lectures, 91, 115, 207

Lowell on, 206

and Thoreau, 121, 122

on Tuckerman, 207

and Whitman, 207–208

The Emperor Jones (O’Neill),

427

The Emperor’s Children

(Messud), 797, 798, 804

The End of the Road (Barth),

709, 711

“Endicott and the Red Cross”

(Hawthorne), 179

Enemies (Singer), 740–741

England

colonization, 21–27

see also British cultural

influence; British

imperialism

Enlightenment, influence, 49,

57, 59, 63, 66, 86

“enter no (silence is the blood

whose flesh”

(cummings), 392

“Entropy” (Pynchon),

706–707

environment, see ecology and

environment; nature

The Epic of the Wheat

(Norris), 274

epics

17th century, 19, 36, 37

18th century, 55, 79–80

19th century, 94, 98–101,

211–212

20th century, 274–275, 447,

557, 600–601, 605, 622

Mather, 47–48

Modernist, 362–363, 365,

370–371, 378–380,

396–397

Puerto Rican mock, 758

science fiction as, 736

Westerns as, 503

and Wolfe, 462–464

“Epistróphe” (Baraka), 642

Equiano, Olaudah, 73–74

Erdrich, Louise, 782, 788–789,

792

erotic literature, see sex and

sexuality: literary

treatments

Esther (Adams), 290

“Ethan Brand” (Hawthorne),

178

Ethan Frome (Wharton), 328

Europe

20th-century literary

migration to, 311–312

and America, literary

treatments of contrast,

256–269

cultural influence,

202–203, 264

immigrant writings,

740–748

The Europe of Trusts

(Howe), 722

The Europeans (James),

263–264

Evangeline (Longfellow),

203

Evans, Augusta Jane, 224

Evans, Hiram Wesley, 316

Evans, Mari, 645, 646, 648

Evans, Nathaniel, 53

Evening Thought

(Hammon), 75

Everhard, Ernest (The Iron

Heel), 279

Everson, William (Brother

Antoninus), 607

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