Subject Index

Abadie, Ann, 200

Abbey, Edward, 353, 374, 487

Abbott, Charles Conrad, 27

Acosta, Oscar, 522, 523

Adams, Abigail, 240, 248

Adams, Henry, 25

Adams, John Quincy, 175

Adams, John, 248

Addams, Jane, 329–30

Agamben, Giorgio, 91, 479

Agassiz, Louis, 120, 475

Agee, James, 229, 335, 338–39

Akins, Zöe, 143, 156

Albee, Edward, 444, 453, 457

Alcott, Bronson, 3, 4, 5, 9–10, 20, 31

Alcott, Louisa May, 3, 9–10, 106

Alger, Horatio, 527

Ali, Aga Shahid, 423

Allen, Francis H., 26–27

Allen, Mary Ware, 30–31

Allen, Richard, 248

Alter, Robert, 58

Althusser, Louis, 217

Alvarez, Julia, 358, 359

Anaya, Rudolfo, 522

Andersen, Hendrik C., 118–19

Anderson, Judith, 143

Anderson, Laurie, 458

Anderson, Sherwood, 309, 380

Anderson, Benedict, 217

Andrade, Eugenio de, 507–08

Angelou, Maya, 524

Angold, John, 180

Annesley, James, 513

Antin, David, 478

Antin, Mary, 313, 314

Anzaldúa, Gloria, 372, 480, 484, 522

Apess, William, 279

Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 128

Arce, Manuel Maples, 311

Arendt, Hannah, 65, 165

Argento, Dominick, 119

Aristotle, 25, 191–92, 193, 462

Arnaz, Desi, 523

Arnold, Matthew, 88, 116, 191, 192

Artaud, Antonin, 429

Asch, Sholem, 526

Ashbery, John, 421–22

Ashcroft, Ralph, 101

Atwood, Margaret, 489, 494

Auden, W. H., 409–10, 418, 419, 443

Audubon, John J., 313

Auerbach, Erich, 108

Augustine, 192

Austen, Jane, 116, 129, 149, 261

Auster, Paul, 477, 491, 511–12, 515–16

Austin, Mary, 150–51, 165, 301, 327

Badiou, Alain, 132

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 43, 66, 103, 108, 110, 166, 208, 228, 341, 371, 375

Bakst, Léon, 161

Balaban, John, 431

Baldwin, James, 335, 341–42, 485, 506

Balibar, Étienne, 217

Ballard, Bettina, 491

Balzac, Honoré de, 115, 116, 120, 135

Bambara, Toni Cade, 364, 365

Bancroft, Hubert H., 291

Baraka, Amiri, 363, 364–65, 368, 369, 431, 504–05

Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 434

Barbieri, Giovanni, 477

Barbusse, Henri, 153–54

Barker, Anna, 30

Barker, James Nelson, 449

Barlow, Joel, 250, 271

Barnes, Albert, 302

Barnes, Djuna, 303, 336, 351, 407, 493, 528

Barnes, Margaret Ayer, 143

Barnett, Ned, 207

Barnum, P. T., 56–57, 76

Barolini, Helen, 503

Barr, Caroline, 203

Barth, John, 383

Barthelme, Donald, 359, 381–82, 383

Barthes, Roland, 148, 229, 467

Bartram, William, 250–51, 480

Basho, Matuso, 96

Basie, William, 341

Bateson, William, 304

Baudelaire, Charles, 416

Baudrillard, Jean, 431, 459

Baum, L. Frank, 332

Baumbach, Jonathan, 337

Baxter, Viola, 172

Beach, Sylvia, 220

Beckett, Samuel, 191, 382, 528

Beecher, Henry Ward, 310

Beer, Thomas, 298

Beerbohm, Max, 123

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 9

Beigbeder, Frédéric, 488

Belgioioso, Cristina di, 495

Bellamy, Edward, 295

Bellow, Saul, 337, 338, 351, 358, 369, 485, 522, 525

Beltrami, Giacomo Constantino, 503

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 41

Benét, William Rose, 395

Benjamin, Walter, 38, 132, 182, 278, 401, 416, 459, 479, 482

Ben-Ner, Guy, 59

Bennet, Hal, 474

Bennett, Louise, 387

Bentham, Jeremy, 296

Bercovitch, Sacvan, 493

Berkeley, George, 15

Berman, Walter, 429–30

Bernice II (queen of Egypt), 213

Bernstein, Aline, 348

Bernstein, Charles, 478

Berrigan, Daniel, 431

Berry, Wendell, 228, 353

Betancourt, Rómulo, 197

Betts, Doris, 378

Bhabha, Homi K., 63, 217

Bidart, Frank, 409, 424–26, 428, 432

Bierce, Ambrose, 94

Billings, Hammatt, 274

Billson, James, 67

Bird, Robert Montgomery, 449

Bishop, Elizabeth, 16, 409, 410, 411–12, 425, 432, 434, 465, 467–68

Bisland, Elizabeth, 292

Bixby, Horace, 107, 108

Black Elk, 72, 361

Black Hawk, 279

Blackmur, R. P., 136

Blago, Lucian, 186

Blake, William, 58

Bloch, Robert, 215, 356

Bloom, Harold, 360, 375, 418

Bly, Nellie, 292, 490–91

Bly, Robert, 431, 513

Boas, Franz, 120

Boccaccio, 368

Bock, Adam, 437

Bohr, Niels, 394

Bolívar, Simón, 260

Bolton, Herbert E., 519

Bonnivard, François, 116

Boone, Daniel, 313

Booth, Wayne C., 105

Borges, Jorge Luis, 185, 508, 509

Bosanquet, Theodora, 114

Boucicault, Dion, 450, 461

Bourdieu, Pierre, 212, 258, 445, 485

Bourget, Paul, 116, 118, 467

Bourne, Randolph, 389

Bowen, Ezra, 196

Bowen, Will, 98

Bowles, Paul, 500–501

Boyle, Kay, 468

Boynton, H. W., 161

Brackenridge, H. H., 476

Bradbury, Ray, 494

Bradford, William, 41, 243, 465, 466

Bradley, Amy Morris, 277

Bradstreet, Anne...