A History of American Literature

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1
912 Index

women: writings (cont’d)
first novel by African-
American, 169–170
first novel by African-
American to sell 1
million-plus, 498
first novel by Native
American, 475
mutual support networks,
327
writing style and attitude
to, 92
women: writings, 17th and
18th centuries, 39–41,
53–54, 69, 81–84
women: writings,
19th-century novels, 92,
102–103, 190–194,
283–288
short stories, 286–287,
289–290
women: writings, 20th
century
African-American drama,
663–665
African-American novels,
477, 480–486, 498–499,
668–678
African-American
poetry, 491, 495–496,
498–499
African-American protest
writing, 640–641, 642,
645–648
Asian-American, 305–307,
764–769, 770–771,
772–773, 774–775,
777–779
Chicana, 749, 755–757
comic, 514
crime and mystery novels,
729, 731–732
early, 297–298, 327–336
immigrants, 301–302,
466–467, 470, 741–743,
744–745
language poetry, 722, 724,
726–727
Latina, 759–762, 762–763

Modernist poetry, 359–363,
365–366, 385–397
Modernist prose, 397–403
Native American, 475–476,
780–781, 782, 786–787,
788–789
popular novels, 512–518
populist, 449
post-9/11, 795, 797,
798–799, 800–802,
809–810, 816, 819–828
postwar drama, 697–698
postwar novels, 588–599
postwar poetry, 539–540,
549–552, 560–563, 619,
624–626
radicals, 457–462
science fiction, 738–739
short stories, 589, 590–599
Women and Economics
(Gilman), 288
The Women of Brewster
(Naylor), 675
Women of Silk (Tsukiyama),
774
Women’s Suffrage
Association, 147
Wonderland (Oates), 594
The Wonders of the Invisible
Wo r l d (Mather), 46
Wong, Jade Snow, 469–470
Wong, Shawn, 769, 770
“Woodchucks” (Kumin), 566
Woodcraft (Simms), 149
Woolf, Virginia, 312, 724
Woolman, John, 57
Woolrich, Cornell, 509
The Word for World Forest
(Le Guin), 738
Wordsworth, William, 114,
211, 493
Wo r k (Alcott), 285–286
work ethic
Depression’s effect,
317–318
late 19th century, 222–223
Puritan origins, 60
“The Working-Girls of New
York” (Fern), 158–159

Works Progress
Administration (WPA),
318, 320, 498
World Anti-Slavery
Convention (1840), 157
World War I
effects, 311
literary treatments, 408,
412, 413
World War II: literary
treatments
Japanese-American writers,
770–772
novels, 568–570, 574, 708
poetry, 532–534, 555
see also Holocaust
World’s Columbian
Exposition, Chicago
(1893), 308
World’s Fair (Doctorow), 576
Wounded Knee massacre,
295, 297, 525
WPA, see Works Progress
Administration
Wright, C. D., 825
Wright, Charles, 563
Wright, Col. George: literary
treatments, 794
Wright, James, 536–537
Wright, Jay, 566
Wright, Richard, 319, 325,
482, 497–503, 651
writing, see creative process
The Writing of Fiction
(Wharton), 328
The Writing on the Wall
(Schwartz), 798–799, 804
Writing/Talks, 722
Wurlitzer, Rudolph, 717
Wylie, Elinor, 388–389

Yakima people, 6
Yamamoto, Hisaye, 770
Yates, Richard, 572
Yeats, W. B., influence, 558
Yekl (Cahan), 300–301
“Yellow Light” (Hongo), 773
“The Yellow Wall-Paper”
(Gilman), 289–290

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