Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

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illness I:56
Robinson Crusoe I:328
science and technology I:96
environmentalism II:656–659
Ephesians (biblical book) II:771–772
epic novels III:1070–1074
Epic of America, The (Truslow) I:8
epic poems
Aeneid III:1099–1103
Divine Comedy I:311–314
Don Juan I:243–246
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
II:708, 709
Paradise Lost II:770–774
pride I:82
equality
Adventures of Tom Sawyer III:1086
Anthills of the Savannah I:124
Burger’s Daughter II:496, 497
House of the Spirits I:147
Jane Eyre I:230–232
Notes on the State of Virginia
II:623–624
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
III:1169
Equiano, Olaudah I:404–407
Erdrich, Louise I:408–418
abandonment I:3
Bingo Palace I:408–411
Love Medicine I:411–414
rejection I:90
social class I:102–103
Tracks I:414–418
Eros and Civilization (Marcuse) I:118
escape
Brown Girl, Brownstones II:738–739
Main Street II:712–714
Member of the Wedding II:748
Native Son III:1185
Rabbit, Run III:1099
Essay on Man, An (Pope) I:50; III:1103
essays
Age of Reason III:856–860
“Civil Disobedience” III:1057–1060
Common Sense III:861–863
Modest Proposal III:1042–1046
Prince II:724–728
“Self-Reliance” I:400–404
Small Place II:653–656
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
III:1167–1170
Walden III:1060–1063
Ethan Frome (Wharton) I:46;
III:1126–1129
ethics I:28–30
Age of Reason III:858–859
“Civil Disobedience” III:1057–1058


Doll ’s House II:588–589
“Goophered Grapevine” I:278–279
Hedda Gabler II:592–593
To Kill a Mockingbird II:702
Life in the Iron Mills I:318–319
Lonesome Dove II:749–750
The Misanthrope II:778–779
Moll Flanders I:322–323
The Natural II:729–730
“Open Boat” I:307
Poisonwood Bible II:660–661
Prince II:725–726
Rabbit, Run III:1096
Remains of the Day II:603–604
Slaughterhouse-Five III:1110–1111
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
III:1168–1169
ethnicity
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
I:150
Moby-Dick II:760–761
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest II:648
Painted Bird II:677
Eugard, Athol I:85–86
Euripides I:20, 418–421
Eurocentrism II:801
Evangelical Christianity I:103
“Eveline” ( Joyce) II:628, 629
“Eve of St. Agnes, The” (Keats) II:640, 641
evil
Adventures of Tom Sawyer III:1086,
1087
Age of Reason III:860
Candide III:1104, 1105
Cat’s Cradle III:1107
Night III:1138
evolutionary theory II:698–701
existentialism
abandonment I:2
Don Juan I:245
fate I:35
futility I:39
individual and society I:59
The Stranger I:247
“Existentialism and Human Freedom”
(Killinger) I:37
exploitation
Animal Farm III:853
Christmas Carol I:332
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court III:1090
Middleman and Other Stories II:811
Oliver Twist I:344
Women in Love II:696
work I:121
expressionism III:1154–1156
“Eyes of Zapata” (Cisneros) I:288–290

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Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) I:18, 219–222
fairy tales I:105–106, 257; II:707–711
faith III:842, 1054–1056, 1137, 1138
Fall, the II:770–774
“Fall of the House of Usher, The” (Poe)
II:712; III:873–876
family I:30–32
abandonment I:2
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
III:1083
Age of Innocence III:1125
American Tragedy, An I:371
Antigone III:1001–1002
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
II:459–461
Bean Trees II:658
Beloved II:795
Black Boy III:1180
Bless Me, Ultima I:155–157
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof III:1153
Cat’s Cradle III:1108
Christmas Carol I:331
Color Purple III:1115
community I:19
Cry, the Beloved Country III:864–865
Dracula III:1033
Dream of the Red Chamber I:250–251
Dubliners II:628–630
Ethan Frome III:1128
“Fall of the House of Usher”
III:873–876
Farewell to Manzanar II:575–576
Fathers and Sons III:1081
Fine Balance II:775
Frankenstein III:978, 979
Giver II:722
Glass Menagerie III:1154, 1155
God of Small Things III:911, 912
“Good Man Is Hard to Find”
III:837–838
Go Tell It on the Mountain I:198–199
Grapes of Wrath III:1013–1014
Great Gatsby II:439
The Hobbit III:1064
As I Lay Dying II:423–424
Joy Luck Club III:1051
The Jungle III:991
King Lear III:938
To the Lighthouse III:1174
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above
Tintern Abbey” III:1177–1178
Little Women I:138, 140
Long Day’s Journey into Night
III:847–848
love I:67
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