Deleuze, Giles, 513
DeLillo, Don, 403, 698, 706, 707, 719 20; End Zone, 720; Great Jones Street, 720; Libra, 699; The Names, 720; Ratner's Star, 705; White Noise, 706
De Lima, Clara Rosa, 605; Tomorrow Will Always Come, 603 -4
de Lisser, Herbert G., 590 -91; Jane's Career, 591; Susan Proudleigh, 591; The White Witch of Roseball, 590-91
Dell, Floyd, 337
Democracy: autobiography and, 27; Brackenridge and, 21; novels and, -864- 14; story papers and, 288, 289; Western novels and, 369
Democratic societies, avant-garde and, 734
Demythologizing, 10 -11; avant-garde and, 734
Denning, Michael, 286, 293, 300
Dennis, Patrick (Edward Everett Tanner), Auntie Mame, 502
Depression, economic, 326; African Americans and, 348; in Canada, 570; ethnic novels, 392; and proletarian art, 331 -32, 334 -46; pulp magazines, 359
Derrida, Jacques, 516
Desktop publishing, 681
Detective fiction: African American, 496; dime novels, 294, 297; Native American, 455 -56; twentieth century, 371 -78
Detective Story Magazine, 359
Detective Tales, 373
Determinism: of Davis's work, 225 -26; and individualism, 193
Development, female, novels of, 110
Dew, Thomas R., 96
Dexter, Pete, Deadwood, 461
Dialects, 251; Québécois, 571
Dialect tales, post-Civil War, 244 -45
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 525
Dickens, Charles, Martin Chuzzlewit, 8
Dickinson, Anna, 236
Dickstein, Morris, 393
Diction, concreteness of, 11
Didion, Joan, 771 -72; Play It as It Lays, 451
DiDonato, Pietro, 398, 399 -400; Christ in Concrete, 399–400
Difference: identity and, 202 -3; racial, social evolution and, 206; social, regionalism and, 251
"Difficult fiction," 695, 700
Dime novels, 523, 285, 286, 291 -302, 304, 438; science fiction, 361
Dirkin, Douglas Leader, 391
Disappearances, Latin America, 627
Disencumbered experience, romance and, 76
Distribution of books, 685; nineteenth century, 49
Divorce, nineteenth century, 143 -44
Dix, Dorothea, 149
Dixon, Thomas, 241, 247 -248, 772; The Clansman, 363; The Leopard's Spots, 247
Doctorow, E. L., 521, 538 -39; Billy Bathgate, 538; The Book of Daniel, 11, Loon Lake, 538; Ragtime, 538; Welcome to Hard Times, 448; World's Fair, 538
Doig, Ivan, 462, 772; Dancing at the Rascal Fair, 462; English Creek, 462; Ride with Me, Mariah, Montana, 462; This House of Sky, 462
Domesticity, 115 -29, 688 -89; antebellum novels, 51; industrial world and, 223 -24; post-World War II, 486, 506 -7; reform fiction and, 230 -31, 238 -39; reform movements and, 225; slavery and, 220 -22; technology and, 473 -74
Domestic novels, 110-11, 271 -72; nineteenth century, 56, 60, 65 -66, 69 -70; story papers, 289- 90
Domination, desire for, social reform and, 136
Donleavy, J. P., 403
Donnelly, Ignatius, Caesar's Column, 472
Donoso, José, The Obscene Bird of Night, 615 -16
Doolittle, Hilda ("H.D."), 312
Dooner, P. W., Last Days of the Republic, 471
Dorris, Michael, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, 457
Dos Passos, John, 322 -23, 326, 477, 489, 772; The Big Money, 467; influence of, 345; Manhattan Transfer, 322; and technology, 478 -79; Three Soldiers, 465; U.S.A., 322, 345, 354, 477
Dostoevsky, Feodor: Hemingway and, 321
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Double-consciousness of African Americans, 209 -10
Doubleday, publishers, 683
Doubles, as literary device, 179 -80
Douglas, Ann, The Feminization of American Culture, 91
Douglas, John, 610
Douglas, Frederick, 142, 773; and Chicago world's fair, 189; The Heroic Slave, 150 -51; The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas, 40; My Bondage and My Freedom, 40; The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, 39–40, 220
Doval, Jorge, 527
Dragnet Magazine, 373
Dreams, Native American accounts, 43–44
Dream tales, Twain and, 169
Dreiser, Theodore, 283, 271; An American Tragedy, 191, 204; Fitzgerald and, 334; Jennie Gerhardt, 283; naturalist fiction, 203 -4; Sister Carrie, 204, 225, 226, 283
Drury, Allen, Advise and Consent, 490
Dryden, Edgar A., 72
Du Bois, W. E. B., 193, 204-10, 333; The Philadelphia Negro, 191, 206 -8; The Quest of the Silver Fleece, 210; The Souls of Black Folk, 204, 208 -10, 249, 413; The Suppression of the African SlaveTrade, 206
Duchamp, Marcel, Nude Descending a Staircase, 311
Ducharme, Réjean, 572
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 773
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, 270, 273
Dunne, Finley Peter, 395
Dunne, John Gregory: Dutch Shea, Jr., 451; True Confessions, 451
Dupee, F. W., Henry James, 271-72
Duplechan, Larry, Blackbird, 551
Durkheim, Emile, 206; L'Année Sociologique, 201; Suicide, 198
Duty, domesticity and, 123
Dystopia, nineteenth-century novels of, 471 -74
Eagleton, Terry, 655
Eakin, Paul John, Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of SelfInvention, 29
Eakins, Thomas, 196; The Gross Clinic, 197
Early American novels, 6 -25
Early twentieth century, 309; fiction, 335; immigration, 380 -81
Earth First! movement, 459
Eastern European immigrants, 373
Eastlake, William, 445 -46, 773-74; The Bronc People, 445, 446; Go in Beauty, 445; Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses, 445
Eastman, Max and Crystal, 337
East Side novelists, 386 -89, 394
Eaton, Edith. See Sui Sin Far
Eaton, Winnifred. See Onoto Watanna
Eclecticism, 691
Eco, Umberto, 483
Economic factors in growth of novel, 48 -50
Economic novels, Westerns as, 369
Economic power, fiction and, 5
Economic status of writers, nineteenth century, 47–48, 58
Economy: and literary development, 49, 54 -55; and popular fiction, 287; of publishing, 680 -90, 695
Edgell, Zee, 605
Editors, 683- 84
Education: colonialist, 650, 655, 657 -68
--- of women, 269; early American ideas, 15 -16, 115; patriarchal view, 118 -19
Educators, eighteenth century, 115
Edwards, Jonathan, 13; Personal Narrative, 31
Effectism of Western novels, 439, 440
Efficiency movement, 476; and prose style, 477 -78
Eggleston, Edward, The Hoosier Schoolmaster, 255
Ehrlich, Gretel, Heart Mountain, 462
Eighteenth century: publishing, 52 -53; reading of novels, 13
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--- writings, 3 -5, 59; autobiographical, 31 -34
Einstein, Albert, 314
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 485
Electronic technology, 681; fiction and, 480 -84; symbolism of, 466 67
Eliot, George: Hawthorne and, 60
Eliot, T. S., 312, 316, 691; American society viewed by, 519; and Barnes, 328; essay on Joyce's Ulysses, 317; and Hemingway, 319; The Waste Land, 320; and World War I, 318
Elite groups: academic, literacy of, 693; invisibility of, 197; nineteenth century, and reform movements, 133; and social reform, 146 -48; sociology and, 201 -2; women, and social reform, 269
Elitism: of Stowe, 146; of Wister's The Virginian, 439
Elizondo, Salvador, Farabeud, 631
Elkin, Stanley 402; The Dick Gibson Show, 480
Ellis, Edward, 299; Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier, 295 -96; Steam-Man of the Plains, 361
Ellis, Trey, Platitudes, 482
Ellison, Ralph, 285, 430, 496, 774; Invisible Man, 435 -36, 495
Eltis, David, "Free and Coerced Transatlantic Migration: Some Comparisons," 92