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I nde x ab Abolition, 4, 8, 21, 23, 25, 27–28, 112 Académie Julian, 62 Adam. See Eden Addams, Jane, 90 Adorno, Theodor, 93, 107 Agassiz, Louis, 8 “Age of Gonads,” 9–10 Agrarianism, 15, 80, 82–83, 88, 91–94, 96–7, 107, 109, 141–42, 154n9, 154n14, 155n34 Alabama Communist Party, 80 Alexander, Lewis, 160n56 Allen, Carol, 130, 132 Ambassadors, The. See James, Henry America: A Family Matter (Gould), 130 American Anti-Slavery Society, 25, 27 American Federation of Labor, 80 American Missionary Association, 90 American Novel and Its Tradition, The (Chase), 141 American Review, The, 96, 141 American Scene, The. See James, Henry Anderson, Benedict, 7, 77, 115 Anderson, Sherwood, 98, 156n57 androgyny: and atavism, 49–50, 52, 79; and body politic, 5–8, 61, 81–82, 97, 99, 112, 114, 136–37, 143; in Christ, 4, 15, 28, 81, 154n15; in Christian Godhead, 85–86, 88, 92, 123, 141, 154n15, 154n16; and commercialism, 47 passim; and conflation with homosexuality, 9, 18–21, 23–24, 106; and conflation with socialism, 81, 106; in evolutionary science, 49–50, 52, 79; and fascism, 16, 137–43; and racial science, 8, 19–20, 113–14; and racial uplift, 111–12; in sexological discourse, 9, 18–19, 21, 23–24, 52, 64–65, 70, 148n15; in transcendentalism, 3–7, 116 Anglo-Catholicism, 85 anticommunism, 88, 99, 109, 135 anti-Marxism, 82, 97 “Antique Harvesters.” See Ransom, John Crowe Appomattox, 12, 27 Aristotle (pseudonym), 4 “Art and the Human Economy.” See Ransom, John Crowe “Art of Fiction, The.” See James, Henry Asheville, North Carolina, 90 Atalanta, 118, 122 “Atlanta Compromise” speech (Washington), 120 Atlanta, Georgia, 80, 118, 121–22 Atlanta University, 117, 121 Auerbach, Nina, 27 Baker, Houston A., 127 Ballanche, Pierre-Simon, 2, 4, 6, 31 Balshaw, Maria, 160n65 Baltimore Sun, The, 95, 125 Barbin, Herculine, 9 176 Index Barr, Stringfellow, 88 “Bastard Song” (Nugent), 126 “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Howe), 4 Bazin, Nancy Topping, 12 “Beast in the Jungle, The.” See James, Henry Bederman, Gail, 43, 159n35 Beecher, Lyman, 62 Bellamy, Edward, 72 Bender, Bert, 59 Bennett, Gwendolyn, 160n56 Bentley, Gladys, 125 Bergson, Henri, 87, 141 Berkson, Dorothy, 75 Berman, Jessica, 37, 39 Beyond Desire (Anderson), 156n57 Bhabha, Homi K., 133–34 blackface. See minstrelsy Blair, Sara, 150n66 Blight, David, 34–35 Böhme, Jakob, 81 Bolsheviks, 81 Book of American Negro Poetry, The (Johnson, ed.), 83 Bonner, Marita, 11, 15–16, 111–14 passim, 137–8, 140; education of, 126; and literary salon in Washington, D.C., 126; “Nothing New,” 129–35; “On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored,” 126–29; “A Possible Triad on Black Notes,” 132, 136; and published stories in journals , 126; “There Were Three,”132, 134–35 Bontemps, Arna, 160n56 Boston Marriage, 20 Boston, Massachusetts, 23–26, 32–33, 36, 126 Bostonians, The. See James, Henry Bowery Theater, 29 Boxhill, Bernard R., 121 “Briar Patch, The” (Warren), 91–92, 155n34 Bryan, William Jennings, 84, 153n53 Bryn Mawr College, 37–39, 41, 44–45 Buhle, Paul, 81 Burke, Fielding (Olive Tilford Dargan), 96, 156n57 Butler, Judith, 10–11, 66, 68, 143 Caldwell, Erskine, 96 Call Home the Heart (Burke), 156n57 Cannon, Kelly, 19 Capital (Marx), 101 capitalism, 8, 11, 14–15, 28, 38, 54, 56, 58–59, 61, 70, 80–84, 88, 98, 101–5, 108 Carby, Hazel, 115, 120 Carpenter, Edward, 18–19, 106 Cash, W. J., 83 Casper, J. L., 18 Castle, Terry, 33 Catt, Carrie Chapman, 77 Central Powers, 135 Charleston, South Carolina, 33, 42 Chase, Richard, 141 Chester, Susan, 90 Child, Lydia Maria, 25 Chills and Fever. See Ransom, John Crowe Chocorua Mountain, 40, 88 Christ, 4, 28, 81, 85, 112, 154n15 Civil War, 6–10, 13–14, 16–17, 21, 25, 34, 42, 44, 48, 84, 88, 90, 98, 112, 114–15 Cleveland, Grover, 8 Cloak, B., 10 collective novel, 100, 104, 142 Collins, Seward, 96, 141 Columbia, South Carolina, 98–99, 107 communism, 82, 88, 99, 106, 109, 135 Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 81 Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), 80, 97–99, 101, 109 Compleat Master-piece, The (Aristotle), 4–5 complex novel, 100, 142 Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 103, 156n48 Crisis, 114–15, 121, 123, 126, 129 Crumpacker, Laurie, 112 Cullen, Countée, 123, 125, 160n56 Cuney, Waring, 160n56 Daisy Miller. See James, Henry d’Alquen, Gunther, 162n8 “Damnation of Women, The.” See Du Bois, W. E. B. Darrow, Clarence, 84 Darwin, Charles, 52–54, 62 Daughters of the Confederacy, 107...

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