Subject Index

Abbott, Edwin, 127

Abish, Walter, 359

Acosta, Oscar Zeta, 469

Adams, Abigail, 236, 524

Adams, Henry, 171, 289, 298, 493

Adams, John Quincy, 240

Adams, Maude, 437

Addison, Joseph, 445

Adler, Luther, 421

Adler, Robert, 418

Adorno, Theodor, 327

Africanus, Julius, 162–63

Agassiz, Louis, 167

Agee, James, 313–14

Agostino di Duccio, 160

Agresti, Olivia Rossetti, 165

Aiken, Conrad, 313, 331, 386

Albee, Edward, 413, 420, 422, 435

Alcott, Abigail May, 23–24, 26

Alcott, Bronson, 26, 31

Alcott, Louisa May, 25–26, 38, 424, 492

Alexie, Sherman, 524

Alger, Horatio, 526

Allen, Ethan, 235

Allen, Theodore, 194

Allen, Woody, 414

Althusser, Louis, 345

Altman, Robert, 483

Ammons, A. R., 334, 393, 395, 406, 407–09

Anaya, Rudolfo, 60, 357, 528

Anderson, Margaret, 310

Anderson, Maxwell, 434

Anderson, Mimi, 298

Anderson, Robert, 420

Anderson, Sherwood, 182, 298

Andrews, William P., 30

Ansa, Tina McElroy, 352

Anthon, Kate, 95

Antin, Mary, 309, 466

Apess, William, 502

Apollonius of Tyana, 162

Arendt, Hannah, 164, 166–67, 354

Aristotle, 106, 132, 172, 177

Armstrong, Nancy, 281

Arnold, Matthew, 154, 340

Asch, Sholem, 421

Ashbery, John, 128, 382, 390, 393, 400, 499

Ashbridge, Elizabeth, 226

Asimov, Isaac, 335

Assing, Ottilie, 254

Auchincloss, Louis, 140

Auden, W. H., 361, 387, 388, 498

Audubon, John J., 384, 488

Austen, Jane, 155, 320, 473

Auster, Paul, 20, 245, 356, 464–65

Austin, Mary, 299–301, 525

Babbage, Charles, 245

Babbitt, Irving, 171

Baca, Jimmy Santiago, 521

Bacheller, Irving, 525

Baitz, Jon Robin, 414, 437

Baker, Nicholson, 355–56

Baker, Nikki, 528

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 61, 90, 153, 209, 239, 262, 300, 339, 350, 448, 508, 509, 516

Baldwin, James, 316–18, 409, 494, 521

Balzac, Honoré de, 149

Bambara, Toni Cade, 343, 526

Bancroft, George, 27

Banfield, Ann, 132

Bangs, John Kendrick, 267–68

Banks, Russell, 204–05

Baratti, Boris, 162

Barlow, Joel, 237, 244, 443, 487

Barnes, Djuna, 173, 208, 291, 310, 311, 329, 369, 371, 372, 387, 474–75, 495

Barolini, Helen, 341

Barth, John, 299, 338, 340, 387

Barthelme, Donald, 340, 487

Barthelme, Frederick, 483

Barthes, Roland, 300, 351, 429–30, 462

Bartram, John, 235

Bass, Rick, 524

Bates, Katharine Lee, 39

Baudelaire, Charles, 169, 170, 245, 398

Baudrillard, Jean, 500

Beckett, Samuel, 359, 398

Beecher, Catharine, 251

Belasco, David, 416

Bell-Villada, Gene H., 340

Bellak, George, 418

Bellamy, Edward, 283–84, 294

Bellow, Saul, 330, 343

Benasutti, Marion, 341

Benedict, Ruth, 195

Benham, George, 294

Benjamin, Walter, 157, 159

Bennett, Emerson, 525

Bentley, Eric, 418

Berger, Pamela, 308

Bergman, Ingrid, 207

Bergson, Henri, 163, 171

Berkman, Alexander, 311

Bernstein, Charles, 396–97

Bernstein, Leonard, 419

Berrigan, Daniel, 418

Berry, Wendell, 19, 406, 407

Berryman, John, 389, 390, 393, 401

Beston, Henry, 19

Bhabha, Homi, 468, 469

Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, 88

Bierce, Ambrose, 498

Bird, Robert Montgomery, 488–89

Bishop, Conrad, 423

Bishop, Elizabeth, 383, 386, 389, 393, 398–400, 410

Bixby, Horace, 99, 115

Blake, Lillie Devereaux, 525

Blake, William, 84

Blanchot, Maurice, 63

Bleecker, Ann Eliza, 524

Bleier, Rick, 392

Bliss, Elisha, 115

Bloom, Harold, 455

Bly, Robert, 393

Boal, Augusto, 436

Boas, Franz, 362

Bogosian, Eric, 435

Bonner, Marita, 304

Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons, 302–03

Bontemps, Arna, 521

Borges, Jorge Luis, 82, 340, 496–97, 517

Borrow, George, 503

Bosanquet, Theodora, 125

Boswell, James, 126

Boucicault, Dion, 416, 424

Bourget, Paul, 140

Bowles, Jane, 331

Bowles, Paul, 330–31, 526

Bowles, Samuel, 93

Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 339

Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 443

Bradbury, Ray, 419

Bradford, Dorothy, 227

Bradford, George P., 6

Bradford, William, 227

Bradley, F. H., 171, 176

Bradstreet, Anne, 229, 230

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, 392

Brontë, Charlotte, 281

Brooke, Rupert, 327

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 364, 393, 400, 409–10, 411, 467–68, 521

Brooks, Mary Merrick, 31

Brown, Charles Brockden, 238, 239–40, 241, 460–62, 489, 490, 528

Brown, John, 11, 18, 255

Brown, Lancelot, 485

Brown, Sterling, 361–65

Browne, J. Ross, 525

Browning, Robert, 115, 127–28

Brownson, Orestes, 26, 28

Bruce, Lenny, 392

Bryant, Dorothy, 341

Bryant, William Cullen, 489

Bryher, Winifred, 476

Bryson, John, 207

Bucke, Richard Maurice, 72

Buckley, Betty, 420

Bukowski, Charles, 73

Bullins, Ed, 420

Bulosan, Carlos, 522

Burk, John, 422

Burke, Kenneth, 13, 117, 315...