Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 123, 163; and alcohol, 136; "The American Scholar," 132; "Emancipation in the British West Indies," 130; "Man the Reformer," 130; "New England Reformers," 130; and realism, 162; and reform, 130- 33; "SelfReliance," 468- 69; and technology, 468- 71; Yezierska and, 387 -88; "The Young American," 169
Empire, American, 258
Empirical first-person authority, 27
Encyclopedic postmodern fiction, 705
Enfranchisement of women, domestic ideology and, 126 -27
Engineers, as popular heroes, 476 -77
England, George Allen: The Afterglow, 363; Darkness at Dawn, 363; "The Lunar Advertising Co.," 363
English language: British colonialism and, 655 -56; early American writers and, 11. See also Language
English-language fiction, postmodern, 699
English-language writers: colonialism and, 650; postcolonial, 652
English poets, World War I, 318
English-speaking Caribbean, novel development, 586–606
Enlightenment: and abolitionist movement, 140; and social reform, 132; and sociology, 192; youth viewed by, 115
En'Owkin Writing Center, 577
Entrée, cultural, 519- 20
Environment, literature of, 459 -60, 503 -9
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, 745, 751
Epic poems, technological themes, 468
Erasure, works written under, 566
Erdrich, Louise, 457, 774; The Beet Queen, 457; Love Medicine, 457; Tracks, 457
Erisman, Fred, 455 -56
Erotic power of women, nineteenthcentury idea, 124 -25
Escape narratives, nineteenth century, 257 -58; sea fiction, 148 -51
Escapism: of science fiction, 365; Westerns and, 368
Essentialist view of social change, 207
Ethnic identity: gender and, 283 -84; Mukherjee and, 673; novels of, 494 -95
Ethnic literature, 44, 382 -406, 494-95; autobiography, 27; Canada, 573 -77; late twentieth century, 499 -501; early American, 9
Etzler, Johann A., The Paradise within the Reach of All Men, without Labour, by the Powers of Nature and Machinery, 469
European Americans, World War II, 402
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European immigration, 92; autobiographical writings, 31. See also Immigration
European modernism, magic realism and, 524
European poetry, World War I, 318
Evangelicalism: and Catholic immigration, 147; and social reform, 131 32; in Uncle Tom's Cabin, 145
Evans, Augusta Jane, 774 -75; St. Elmo, 110, 298
Evans, Max, The Rounders, 440
Evans, May Garrettson, 94
Evil, socially constructed, James and, 167 -68
Evolution, sociaclass="underline" contradictory groups, 202; Du Bois and, 206; James and, 200
Evolutionary analysis of society, 192 -93
Excesses, in avant-garde fiction, 732
Exclusivity, autonomy and, 691
Exile, 649, 650 -52; education and, 655; literature of, 654; political, 668
Existentialism, 487, 489, 491 -92, 494; Mailer and, 493
Expansionism, late nineteenth century, 158
Expatriate movement, 312
Expatriate writers: Nabokov, 707; West Indian, 593, 596, 600
Expatriation, 649- 51; education and, 657; in Canada, Mukherjee and, 672 -73
Experience, modes of, in early American novels, 10
Experimental writing: Canadian, 571, 579, 581; early twentieth century, 335; postmodern, 699; proletarian, 344 -46; Stein and, 215; by women, 695, 699
Exploitation: Western novels and, 437; of women, nineteenth century, 152 -53
Explorers, autobiographical writings, 29 -30
Expression, means of, in early American writings, 11
Expressionism, Fitzgerald and, 326
Fable: Melville and, 87; Twain and, 169
Fact, early American fiction based on, 14 -18
Factory workers, dime novels and, 294
FactSheet Five, 681
Failure, avant-garde fiction and, 731 -32
Fairchild, Henry Pratt, The Melting-Pot Mistake, 381
Falardeau, Jean-Charles, Notre société et son roman, 572
family: public supervision, 50; rebellion against, 278
Family Story Paper, 297
Fanon, Frantz, 657; Black Skin, White Masks, 106
Fantasy, 302; Butler's views, 522
Fante, John, Wait Until Spring, Bandini, 398 -99
Farah, Nurrudin, 668
Farm conditions, reform of, 235 -36
Farnsworth, Robert M., Chesnutt viewed by, 181
Farrell, James T., 326, 395 -97; Judgment Day, 396; Stud's Lonigan, 354, 396-97; Young Lonigan, 396; The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, 396, 397
Far West (magazine), 302- 3
Far West, political rhetoric, 294- 95
Fascism, 317
Fashionable life, femininity and, nineteenth-century views, 120
Fathers, immigrant, 676
Faulkner, William, 315, 322, 426 -30, 432, 775; Absalom! Absalom! 428, 703; Anderson and, 327; As I Lay Dying, 444; Flags in the Dust, 427; Go Down, Moses, 428, 432; Intruder in the Dust, 428, 432; Light in August, 428, 434; Sartoris, 427; Soldier's Pay, 427; The Sound and the Fury, 326, 427, 432
Fauset, Jessie, 411, 420 -21; There Is Confusion, 420-21
Faust, Frederick (Max Brand), 366, 379, 775- 76; Hired Guns, 366, 367; Montana Kind series, 440; The Untamed, 366
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Feal Rosemary Geisdorfer, 646 -47
Fee, Margery, 576
Fees for story-paper writings, 288
Female experience, proletarian, 350. See also Women
Feminine mystique, 486
Femininity, nineteenth-century ideas, 111, 272
Feminism: and abolitionism, 142 -43, 218; in Alcott's Work, 125- 26; Bellamy's Looking Backward and, 230; Butler and, 522; communism and, 339; domesticity and, 118 -26; early American, 18 -19, 126 -27; and experimental fiction, 699; Garland and, 235 -36;in Hurston's novels, 424; late nineteenth century, 269; and lesbian fiction, 501 -2; in nineteenth-century domestic novels, 113, post-World War II, 505 -7; and slave autobiography, 41 -42; of Stein, 316; in Uncle Tom's Cabin, 144 -45; and Western fiction, 457 58; of Yezierska, 387 -88
Feminist writing: Canadian, 567, 581; Caribbean, 604 -5; Latin American, 614 -15, 629, 633 -47; nineteenth century, 111; postmodern, 532, 698, 723 -24
Feminization of American culture, 114 -17
Ferguson, Adam, Essay on the History of Civil Society, 191 -92
Ferguson, Harvey: The Conquest of Don Pedro, 443; Grant of Kingdom, 443
Fern, Fanny (Sara Payson Willis), 65, 776; and marriage, 143 -44; Rose Clark, 143-44; Ruth Hall, 54, 63 64, 69, 87, 111, 143, 152
Fernández Retamar, Roberto, 613 -14; Calibán, 613
Ferré, Rosario, 623, 635-36; Maldito amor (Sweet Diamond Dust), 635; Papeles de Pandora, 635
Ferro, Robert, The Family of Max Desir, 551
Ferron, Jacques, La Nuit (Quince Jam), 570
Fiction, 5; autobiography and, 4–5, 29, 45; avant-garde, 727 -51; domesticity and, 110 -29; early American views, 9 -10; early twentieth century, 309 -10; economy and, 49 -50; gender and, 267 -84; immigrant experience, 382; late nineteenth century, 157 -58; republican ideology and, 48; and social reform, 131 -54, 217 39; and technology, 465 -84
Fiction Collective, 813
Fido, Elaine Savory, Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, 604
Fiedler, Leslie, 285 -86, 383, 395, 403, 728
Fielding, Henry, Joseph Andrews, 4
Fields, James, T., 61
Fifth House Publishing, 577
Fillmore, Millard, 218
Film noir, 377 -78
Films See Cinema
Financial affairs, nineteenth-century women and, 65
Financial status of writing profession, 47–48; nineteenth century, 58
Findley, Timothy: Famous Last Words, 582; Not Wanted on the Voyage, 566, 582
Fine, David, Lost Angeles in Fiction, 451
Finley, Martha, 776; Elsie Dinsmore, 110, 123
Finney, Charles Grandison, 132, 133, 136; and novel reading, 137 -38; and slavery, 140 -41