908 Index“Tulips” (Plath), 561–562
Turell, Jane Colman, 54
Turgenev, Ivan, 262
“The Turn of the Screw”
(James), 268
Turner, Frederick Jackson,
220
Turner, Nat, 89, 147, 176, 573
Turow, Scott, 735
Tuskegee Institute, 321, 651
Twain, Mark (Samuel
Langhorne Clemens),
113, 224–231
and Howells, 256
on humor, 509
precursors, 155
Twentieth-Century Cycle
(Bullins), 666
Twice-Told Tales
(Hawthorne), 178–179
twins, in Native American
stories, 6
Twilight of the Superheroes
(Eisenberg), 795,
800–802, 804, 809
Two Dissertations
(Edwards), 59
Two Men (Stoddard), 193
“The Two Offers”
(Harper), 162
Two Trains Running
(Wilson), 667
Two Wings Veil My Face
(Forrest), 662
Tyler, Anne, 594–595
Tyler, Royall, 80–81, 420
Ty p e e (Melville), 184, 190
Typical American (Jen), 766
typography
and cummings, 392
and Marquis, 391Ulysses (Joyce), 313
Un-American Activities
Committee, see House
Un-American Activities
Committee
Uncle Remus stories (Harris),
241–242Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe),
92, 151, 161, 171–176
Uncle Tom’s Children
(Wright), 500, 501
“Uncle Wellington’s Wives”
(Chesnutt), 253
Uncommon Women
(Wasserstein), 697
The Underground Stream
(Maltz), 456
“Underground Water”
(Wideman), 780
Underworld (DeLillo), 586
Unfinished Painting (Salter),
625
“Unfold! Unfold!” (Roethke),
553
Unholy Loves (Oates), 594
Unholy Sonnets (Jarman),
626–627
The Universal Baseball
Association (Coover), 586
Unspeakable Practices,
Unnatural Acts
(Barthelme), 712, 713
Up From Slavery
(Washington), 321
“Up-State Depression
Summer” (Taggard), 448
“Up the Coulé” (Garland),
270–271
Updike, John, 583–585,
799–800
“Upon a Spider Catching a
Fly” (Taylor), 41
“Upon Wedlock, & Death of
Children” (Taylor), 42
urbanization
19th century, 220
20th century, 309
and rise of nostalgia, 231
see also city life
USA, see America
U.S.A. (Dos Passos), 408,
409–410
utopian communities, 119,
179, 285
utopian literature
19th century, 258–259early English colonists, 22,
24, 31
feminist, 288V (Pynchon), 707–709
Valdez, Luis, 525
The Valley (Hinojosa),
754–755
The Valley of Decision
(Wharton), 327
The Valley of Shenandoah
(Tucker), 151
Valentine, Jean, 820, 822
Van Vechten, Carl, 480, 488
Vandover and the Brute
(Norris), 273, 279
“Vapor Trail Reflected in a
Frog Pond” (Kinnell),
547
Vãsquez, Richard, 756
veritism, 270
vernacular, use of
Berger, 715
Brooks, 495
Brown, 492
Bullins, 666
Chesnutt, 252, 253
Dunne, 299–300
Higgins, 731
Hurston, 481
Leonard, 731
Miller, 679, 681
regionalists, 232–233,
238–239, 252–253
Southwest heroes, 109–114
Twain, 225–231
Wilson, 667
Very, Jones, 122, 205–206, 207
The Victim (Bellow), 578
Vidal, Gore, 569
Vietnam War, 526, 527
literary treatments, 595,
650, 695–696, 704, 738
protest poems, 546–547,
613–614
Vietnamese-Americans:
writings, 776–777
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