888 IndexMemoirs of a Shy
Pornographer (Patchen),
452–453
Memoirs of Carwin
(Brown), 87
Memories of a Catholic
Girlhood (McCarthy), 459
Memories of the Ford
Administration
(Updike), 584
memory and memories:
literary treatments
Cather, 334–335
Gioia, 630
Miller, 684
Morrison, 670
Native American writers,
780–795
Stein, 398–399
Williams, 684
see also nostalgia; past
The Men of Brewster Place
(Naylor), 675
Mencken, H. L., 339–340, 506
Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro, 18
mental illness
and beat poets, 610
and Exley, 703
and Kesey, 638–640
psychosis, 728
and Salinger, 637, 638
and Thompson, 727–728
Williams on, 684
Mercado, Nancy, 821
The Mercy (LaBute), 810–811
Meridian (Walker), 673
“Merlin” (Emerson), 118
Merrill, James, 548, 622–623
Merwin, W. S., 534, 541, 546,
821, 827
Meshugah (Singer), 740, 741
Messerli, Douglas, 722
messianic impulse: literary
treatments, 727, 737, 740
Messud, Claire, 797
Metacomet (King Philip), 136
Method acting, 678, 679
Mexican-Americans
19th century, 221Chicano/a writers, 748–763
corridos, 293–294
folklore, 139–141
immigration, 748
postwar conditions, 525,
528–529
El Theatre Campesino, 525
Miami and the Siege of
Chicago (Mailer), 571
Middle Passage (Johnson),
662
Midwest: histories, 461
Midwest: literary treatments,
19th century, 233,
269–270
Midwest: literary treatments,
20th century
early, 340–345, 446,
543–544, 564
late, 598, 804, 812–813
New Journalism, 702
postwar novels, 573, 575
Miles, Josephine, 389
military: literary treatments,
703–704
see also war
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop
Here Anymore
(Williams), 687
Millay, Edna St. Vincent,
388–389
Miller, Arthur, 678–684
Miller, Henry, 631, 635–636
Miller, Jason, 695
Miller, Joaquin, 232–233
Milner, Ron, 665
Milton, John, 287
mime, 689
Minatoya, Lydia, 774
mining: literary treatments,
232, 343
“The Minister’s Black Veil”
(Hawthorne), 178
The Minister’s Wooing
(Stowe), 176
“Miniver Cheevy”
(Robinson), 348
Minnie’s Sacrifice (Harper),
162Minty, Judith, 824
Mirikitani, Janice, 772–773
miscegenation: literary
treatments
Brown, 165–166
Chesnut, 153
Chesnutt, 254
Child, 154
Douglass, 128–129
Grimké, 155
Hellman, 458
Hopkins, 283–284
Jacobs, 130–133
Larsen, 482–484
musicals, 678–679
Southern regionalists,
244, 247
The Miss Firecracker Contest
(Henley), 697
Miss Lonelyhearts (West),
515–517
Miss Ravenel’s Conversion
from Secession to Loyalty
(Forest), 260
missions, Christian, see
conversion to
Christianity
Mississippi: literary
treatments, 111,
224–227, 229, 247
Mitchell, Margaret, 499,
512–514
Mixquiahuala Letters
(Castillo), 756
Moby-Dick (Melville),
185–190
Emerson’s influence, 116
influence, 662, 709
precursors, 98
A Modell of Christian Charity
(Winthrop), 30–31
Modern Chivalry
(Brackenridge), 84–85
A Modern Instance (Howells),
256
A Modern Mephistopheles
(Alcott), 285
Modernism
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