A History of American Literature

882 Index

isolation, see loneliness;

solitude

Israel Potter (Melville), 189

It Can’t Happen Here

(Lewis), 342

Itallie, Jean-Claude van, 689

“Its Wavering Image” (Eaton),

306–307

“I’ve Been to the

Mountaintop” speech

(King), 657

“The Izu Dancer” (Hahn), 567

“Jacinto Treviño” (corrido),

294

Jackson, Andrew, 90, 110, 447

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 214

Jacobs, Harriet, 130–133

James, Alice, 261–262

James, Henry, 260–269

and Cather, 333

on Civil War, 231

and Crane, 276

on Garland, 269

on Hawthorne, 177, 182,

262–263

and Howells, 256, 262

and Wharton, 327, 328

James, Henry, Sr., 261, 267

James, William, 261

Jameson, Fredric, x

Jane Talbot (Brown), 87

Japanese-Americans:

writings, 470, 770–775

Japanese poetry, influence on

Pound, 369

Jargon Press, 602

Jarman, Mark, 626–627

Jarrell, Randall, 532–533,

549, 703

Jasmine (Mukherjee),

777–779

Jay, John, 84

jazz

and African-American

poetry, 649, 650

and beat poetry, 610,

612, 643

and Creeley, 603

Ellison on, 651

Gelber’s use of, 689

and Hughes, 489

literary treatments, 477,

661, 674

and Morrison, 671

and Naylor, 675

Shepard’s use of, 691

Jazz (Morrison), 671

“Jean-ah Poquelin” (Cable),

248–249

Jeffers, Robinson, 345,

355–359, 607

Jefferson, Thomas, 66–69, 70,

78, 142, 165

Jen, Gish, 765, 766, 769

Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser), 337

Jerusalem (Blake), 211

The Jewels of Aptor (Delany),

738

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 235–238

and Cather, 236, 237,

327, 333

and Howells, 256

and Stowe, 176

“The Jewish Cemetery at

Newport” (Longfellow),

204

Jewish Daily Forward, 300, 740

Jews: immigration, 740

Jews: literary treatments, 664,

683, 696

see also Holocaust; Jews:

writings

Jews: writings

early to mid-20th century,

300–301, 454–456,

466–467, 576–582

late 20th century, 740–741,

743–745, 759

Jews without Money (Gold),

455

Jicarilla people, 5–6

Joans, Ted, 643

Joaquin Murieta, Life and

Adventures of (Ridge), 134

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

(Wilson), 667

John Andross (Davis), 196

“John Brown’s Body,” 199

John March, Southerner

(Cable), 251

John Marr and Other Sailors

(Melville), 190

John Ward, Preacher

(Deland), 272

John Winthrop’s

Christian Experience

(Winthrop), 31

Johnny Johnson (Green and

Weill), 424

Johns, Jasper, 616

Johnson, Charles R., 661, 662

Johnson, Denis, 804–805

Johnson, Esther, 722

Johnson, James Weldon,

320–321, 324–326, 477

Johnson, Lyndon B., 526

Johnson, Robert, 497, 793

Johnston, Basil H., 782

Johnston, Mary, 224, 327

Johnston, Richard Malcolm,

224, 242–243

Jonah’s Gourd Vine

(Hurston), 481

Jonathan (The Contrast), 81

Jones, Hugh, 50, 51

Jones, James, 569

Jones, Leroi, see Baraka,

Imamu Amiri

Jones, Richard M., 497

Jong, Erica, 597, 718

Jordan, Jone, 648

Josephson, Matthew, 316

journals and periodicals

19th century, 223

African-American,

282–283

anti-slavery, 89, 92, 128,

130, 142, 146

and muckrakers, 302

poetry, 626, 722–723

see also individual journals

by name; magazines;

newspapers

“A Journey from Patapsko to

Annapolis, April 4, 1730”

(Lewis), 56

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