Index 891in colonial writings, 26, 27,
33–35
postwar novels, 574, 639
see also Native Americans:
writings and narratives
Native Americans: writings
and narratives
18th century, 71–72
19th century, 134–139, 233,
234–235, 296–298
first female autobiography,
297–298
first novel, 472
first novel by woman, 475
oral traditions, 4–18, 134,
135, 294
regionalist, 234–235
Native Americans: writings
and narratives, 20th
century, 296–298, 316,
472–476, 525, 779–795
crime novels and thrillers,
734
short stories, 475–476
songs, 295, 298
Native Son (Wright), 319,
498, 501–502
Native Speaker (Lee), 734
The Natural (Malamud), 576
naturalism, 272–281
definition, 259, 273
Hansberry on, 663
nature
Native Americans’
relationship with, 5, 11,
13–14, 34, 297
nature: literary treatments
Adams (Henry), 291
Adams (Léonie), 390
Anaya, 734
Cervantes, 750
Cooper, 97
Copway, 137
Crèvecoeur, 64
Dickey, 443–444
Dickinson, 214–215, 217
Eliot, 377
Emerson, 114, 115–119
Frost, 350–351, 353Jeffers, 356–358
Knight, 49
Longfellow, 204
Melville, 186
Moore, 387–388
naturalists, 273, 275,
279, 280
New York poets, 619
Niedecker, 366
Oppen, 365
postmodernists, 710
Snyder, 610
Ta y l o r, 4 2
Thoreau, 121–126
Twain, 229
see also ecology and
environment; pastoral
themes and pastoralism
Nature (Emerson), 114,
115–118
“Nature” (Longfellow), 204
Naylor, Gloria, 675
Neal, John, 99–100
Neal, Larry, 524
“The Negro Artist and the
Racial Mountain”
(Hughes), 488–489
The Negro Christianized
(Mather), 47
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
(Hughes), 490–491
Nelson, Anne, 809–810
Nelson, David, 645,
646–647
Nemerov, Howard, 534,
549, 703
Neruda, Pablo, 759
A Nest of Ninnies (Ashbery
and Schuyler), 620
Netherland (O’Neill), 800,
804–805, 809
Neville, Morgan, 110
The New Atlantis (Le Guin),
738
New Challenge, 498
New Criticism, 434, 439, 622
New England
colonization, 25, 27, 30–32
and Creeley, 603–604literary treatments,
235–239, 428, 498
Mather’s history, 47–48
suffrage, 48
waning of Puritan
influence, 47
work ethic, 51, 60
A New England Nun
(Freeman), 238
The New England Primer,
37, 38
A New England Tale
(Sedgwick), 102
New English Canaan
(Morton), 33–34
New Formalists, 623–631
New Found Land
(MacLeish), 451
A New Home (Kirkland),
190–191
New Journalism, 531, 568,
571, 700–705
A New Life (Malamud), 577
The New Masses, 320, 343,
454–455, 456, 500, 512
The New Negro (Locke),
476–477, 478
New Negro movement,
314–315, 476–503
New York City
19th-century development,
220
African-American history
of, 325
and Howells, 259
origin of Gotham
nickname, 93
and theater, 678–680, 682,
688–689
New York City: literary
treatments
Arenas, 763
Auster, 586
Bellow, 743
Berrigan, 619
Capote, 701
Chu, 764
Doctorow, 576
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