Gordon, Mary, 404
Gothic novels: early American, 21 -23; nineteenth century, 47, 87
Goyen, William, 461
Graft, Gerald, 692 -93
Graham, Sylvester, 137
Granich, Itzok. See Gold, Michael
Grass, Günter, 678
Grau, Shirley Ann: The Black Prince and Other Stories, 414; The Keepers of the House, 414
Graves, Michael, 516
Great American Novel, search for, 241
Great Britain: colonialism, 655; excolonial immigrants, 652 -53; literary culture, 47
Great Depression, 326; African Americans and, 348; in Canada, 570; ethnic novels, 392; and proletarian art, 331 -32; proletarian fiction and, 334- 46; pulp magazines, 359
Greenberg, Robert M., 347
Greene, Anna Katherine, That Affair Next Door, 373
Greenwich Village Bohemia, 337
Gregory, Horace, 353
Grenfell, Julian, 318
Grey, Francis, The Curé of St. Philippe, 562
Grey, Zane, 370- 71, 439 -40, 443, 781; The Call of the Canyon, 370, 371; The Last of the Plainsmen, 371; Riders of the Purple Sage, 368; The Shepard of Guadeloupe, 370; 30,000 on the Hoof, 370
Griffith, D. W.: The Birth of a Nation (film), 274, 363, 772; Ramona (film), 370
Griffiths, Linda, The Book of Jessica, 576 -77
Griggs, Sutton, 241, 781; Imperium in Imperio, 248
Grimké, Angelina, Letters to Catharine E. Beecher, 142
Grimké, Sarah, 142, 143
Griswold, Rufus, 287
Group culture, Native Americans and, 43–44
Group identity: late twentieth century, 494 -95; minority fiction and, 503 -5
Groups, social reform, 133
Grove, Frederick Philip, Settlers of the Marsh, 564
Guattari, Félix, 513
Guest, Judith, Ordinary People, 682 -83
Guillén, Nicolás, 524, 609
Guilt, Latin American writing and, 614
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Gulf and Western, 687
Gurr, Andrew, 650 -51
Guthrie, A. B., 781; The Big Skay, 443; The Way West, 443
Gutman, Herbert, 177
Guy, Rosa, 605; Bird at My Window, 603 -4
Guyana, fiction from, 596 -98
Habegger, Alfred, 271 -72
Habermas, Jürgen, 521
Habit, psychology of, 211
Hacker, Marilyn, 556
Hacking, Ian, "Making Up People," 191, 215
Hale, Sarah, 65, 91, 122; The Lecturess, 122; Northwood, 122
Haliburton, Thomas C., The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, 560, 561
Hall, G. Stanley, 255
Hall, Oakley, 455
Halper, Albert, 386; Union Square, 345
Hammett, Dashiell, 373, 781- 82; The Maltese Falcon, 374, 376, 450; Red Harvest, 373, 374- 76
Hansen, Marcus, 389
Hapgood, Hutchins, The Spirit of the Ghetto, 381
Hard-boiled detective fiction, 372 -78
Hating, Keith, 552
Harland, Henry (Sidney Luska): Mrs. Prexiada, 384; The Yoke of the Thorab, 384
Harlem Renaissance, 322, 421; Hurston and, 422
Harlequin Romances, 301, 378
Harlow, Robert, Scann, 565
Harmony Society, 133
Harper, Frances Ellen, 142, 273, 283; Iola Leroy, 228
Harper Bros., publishers, 53
Harper's Monthly Magazine, 27, 303
Harper's Weekly, 303
Harrigan, Edward, 395
Harris, Joel Chandler, Uncle Remus stories, 244
Harris, Mark: Bang the Drum Slowly, 492; The Southpaw, 492
Harris, Wilson, 587, 589, 593, 594, 596- 97
Harrison, Dick, Unnamed Country: The Struggle for a Prairie Fiction, 562
Harrison, James, 96
Harte, Bret, 438
Haslam, Gerald, 446
Hassan, Ihab, 319, 521, 739
Hawkes, John, 701 -2, 707, 709 -10, 728 -29, 736, 782; The Lime Twig, 728, 729; Second Skin, 706, 70910, 729; Travesty, 729
Hawley, Cameron, Executive Suite, 507
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 5, 8, 52, 60 -62, 66 -69, 72 — , 465, 782- 83; "The Artist of the Beautiful," 75; "The Birthmark," 83–84; The Blithedale Romance, 63, 66, 75, 134 -36; and caricature, 83–84; "The CustomHouse," 75, 92 — ; and domestic novels, 112; "Ethan Brand," 83–84; "The Haunted Mind," 76–77; The House of the Seven Gables, 52, 59, 66, 73, 75, 87, 112, 135 -36; and imagination, 75–77; "The Man of Adamant," 83; The Marble Faun, 75, 87; and mesmerism, 135-36; "The Minister's Black Veil," 84; Mosses from an Old Manse, 53; "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," 84; "A Parable," 84; and realism, 162; and reform, 134-36; and romance, 73, 105; The Scarlet Letter, 50, 61, 63, 83–86, 112, 117; "The Snow-Image," 75; Twice-Told Tales, Poe's review, 105; and women writers, 62–63, 110, 117, 271
Haycox, Ernest, 367
Haymarket Riot, 158
Head, Bessie, 651; A Question of Power, 671 -72
Health reforms, nineteenth century, 137
Heap, Jane, 312
Hearn, Lafcadio, 783; Chita, 254
Hearne, John, 593, 594, 598; Autumn Equinox, 599; The Faces of Love, 599; Land of the Living, 599–600;
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Hearne, John (Continued) Stranger at the Gate, 599; The Sure Salvation, 600; Voices under the Window, 599
Heath, Stephen, 644
Hébert, Anne, Kamouraska, 580
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Phenomenology of Mind, 104
Heidegger, Martin, Being and Time, 487
Heller, Erich, Thomas Mann: The Ironic German, 750 -51
Heller, Joseph, 783 -84; Catch-22, 491
Helper, Hinton, 54 -55
Hemingway, Ernest, 249, 312, 314, 315, 318 -22, 408, 477 -78, 479, 784; Death in the Afternoon, 321; A Farewell to Arms, 319; For Whom the Bell Tolls, 321; Green Hills of Africa, 321; influences on, 324; In Our Time, 477; A Moveable Feast, 322; The Old Man and the Sea, 321; The Sun Also Rises, 319- 20, 477-78
Hémon, Louis, Maria Chapdelaine, 568
Henry, Will, From Where the Sun Now Stands, 440
Hentz, Caroline Lee, 64; Linda, 64, 110; The Planter's Northern Bride, 145
Herberg, Will, 402
Herbst, Josephine, 332, 339, 345, 353, 354 -55; The Executioner Waits, 354; Pity Is Not Enough, 354; Rope of Gold, 354-55
Hernández, Jaime and Gilbert, 539 -41; Chelo's Burden, 540; Heartbreak Soup, 540; House of Raging Women, 540; Locas, 540; Love and Rockets, 539- 40; Las Mujeres Peridas, 540; Music for Mechanics, 540; The Reticent Heart, 540
Heroes: in adventure fiction, 378 -79; in formula Westerns, 366; in frontier novels, 438
Heroic tales, dime novels, 294
Heroine, democratic, working girl as, 298
Hester Street (film), 385
Heyward, DuBose, 417, 418; Mamba's Daughters, 418; Porgy, 418
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 132
High modernism, 318- 19, 326 -27; conservatism of, 316 -17; Davenport and, 744; lesbian fiction, 501; postmodernism and, 521
Highsmith, Patricia, The Price of Salt, 501- 2
Hijuelos, Oscar, 406
Hildreth, Richard, The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore, 141
Hillerman, Tony, 455 -56; The Blessing Way, 455; Coyote Waits, 455; Talking God, 455; A Thief of Time, 455
Himes, Chester, 495 -96; Cotton Comes to Harlem, 495; The Heat's On, 495; If He Hollers Let Him Go, 495; The Real Cool Killers, 495
Hirsch, David H., 72
Hirsch, E. D., Jr., Cultural Literacy, 666
Historical narrative: García Márquez and, 618; postmodern, 533
Historical novels, 15 -18, 252; Twain and, 256; West Indies, 598 -99
— romances: Cooper and, 58; Jamaican, 590 -91; nineteenth century, 112, 158, 257 -63; by women, 119 20, 123 -24
Historiographic metafiction: Canadian, 565; postmodernism and, 522, 705
History, xiii; collective sense, 514; Latin American, reevaluation of, 607 -9; postbellum fiction and, 157; postmodernism and, 538 -39, 714 -16, 718 -19, 721
Hobsbawm, Eric, 197
Hobson, Laura Z., Gentleman's Agreement, 490
Hodge, Merle, 605; Crick Crack Monkey, 595
Hodgin, Jack, Invention of the World, 565