Leiber, Fritz, Gather Darkness, 365
Lemelin, Roger, Au pied de la pente douce (The Town Below), 569
Leonard, John, 661
Leprohon, Rosanna, Antoinette de Mirecourt; or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing, a Canadian Tale, 562
Lesbianism, 279, 545; Barnes and, 328
--- literature of, 501, 551 -52; Latin American, 629 -30; postwar, 505
Lesley, Craig, Winterkill, 461
Le Sueur, Meridel, 326, 332, 339, 350 53, 457; "Annunciation," 351; The Girl, 332, 350- 51; Harvest Song, 352; I Hear Men Talking, 332, 351, 352-53; "I Was Marching," 353; "Spring Story," 351; "What Happens in a Strike," 352; "Women on the Breadlines," 352
Levin, Meyer, The Old Bunch, 393
Levine, Robert, 72
Lewis, H. H., 344
Lewis, R. W. B., 395; The American Adam, 489
Lewis, Sinclair, 171, 335; Main Street, 283
Lewis, Wyndham, 317
Lewisohn, Ludwig, The Island Within, 387
Leyner, Mark, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, 484
Libbey, Laura Jean, 159, 293, 297–300; Leonie Locke; or, The Romance of a Beautiful New York Working-Girl, 299
Liberalism, 50
Liberal sociology, 197
Liberation, rhetoric of, 647
The Liberator, 141, 346
Liberty, gothic novels and, 22 -23
"Libraries," publishers' series, 53
Liebowitz, Herbert, Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography, 29
Limitations, avant-garde and, 732, 751
Lincoln, Abraham, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, 144
Ling, Amy, 277
Linguistic alienation, Latin American, 613
Linguistic excess, in avant-garde fiction, 732
Linn, James Weber, 396
Lippard, George, 48, 51, 148, 288, 789; New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million, 148; The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall, 47, 54, 138, 148
Lispector, Clarice, 624 -25, 636 -37, 790; Agua viva, 625, 636-37; Family Ties, 625; "The Fifth Story," 637; The Passion According to G.H., 625
Literacy, 49, 693
Literary canon, 56, 128 -29, 178; and financial success, 70
Literary criticism. See Criticism, literary
Literary culture: antebellum, 51; economy and, 49; regional, 407 -8
Literary fiction, publication of, 683 -84
Literary Guild, 685
Literary historians, and nineteenthcentury women, 111 -15
Literary reviews, West Indies, 592, 593
Literary Western novels, 437 -64
Literature: American, 6 -7; early American views, 12; mass marketing, nineteenth century, 53; mid-twentiethcentury views, 488; postmodern, 516; television and, 480 -84; Vargas Llosa's views, 623
Little magazines, 407, 414
Littlepage trilogy, Cooper, 143
Little Review, 312
Liveright, Horace, 393; and Yezierska, 388
Living gospel, women as, 124
Loaeza, Guadalupe, 632
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Local color, 250 -56; Cable and, 244; economic depression and, 392; Western, 438
Locke, Alain, 28; The New Negro, 421
Locklin, Gerald, The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen, 450
Lockwood, John, An Essay on Flogging, 149
Loeb, Harold, 320
London, Jack, 263, 335, 790; The Call of the Wild, 264 -65; The Iron Heel, 236 -37, 341; Martin Eden, 439; People of the Abyss, 236; and primordial violence, 264-65; The SeaWolf, 264, 439; White Fang, 264, 265 -66
Long, Edward, History of Jamaica, 89, 103
Long, Huey P., 415
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Poems on Slavery, Poe's comments, 96
Lorde, Audre, 670
Los Angeles, novels of, 451, 454
Loss of control, fear of, Hawthorne and, 136
Lost generation novelists, 314 -25
Love, Glen A., 447
Love: between women, Cather and, 279 -80; possession and, 95; romantic, nineteenth-century ideas, 124 25; slavery and, Poe's views, 99 100; in Western fiction, 368 -69
Lovelace, Earl, 592, 600, 602 -3, 653; The Dragon Can't Dance, 603; The Wine of Astonishment, 603
Lovett, Robert Morss, 396
Lower classes: naturalist fiction, 202 -4; observation of, 197 -98; realist fiction, 197-99
— white: social reformers and, 147 49; Stowe and, 146
Loyalty, individualism and, 195
Lugones, Leopoldo, 610 -11
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 409
Lukacs, Georg, 157 -58
Lurie, Alison, 451, 505, 790- 91
Luska, Sidney. See Harland, Henry
Lyotard, Jean-Francois, 366, 516, 521, 691, 714
Lytle, Andrew, 416
Mabbott, Thomas O., 104
McCarthy, Joseph, 486
McCarthy, Mary, 793; The Group, 505
McClure's magazine, 386
McCorkle, Jill, The Cheer Leader, 481
McCoy, Horace, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 450
McCullers, Carson, 429 -30, 505, 793; The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, 505; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 505; The Member of the Wedding, 429, 505
McCutcheon, George Barr, Graustark, 259
MacDermott, Thomas (Tom Redcam): Becka's Buckra Baby, 590; One Brown Girl and — : A Jamaican Story, 590
McDonald, Ian, The Hummingbird Tree, 595
McGregor, Gaile, The Wacousta Syndrome, 559
McGuane, Thomas, 449 -50, 793- 94; Keep the Change, 450
McHale, Brian, 703
Machine: symbolism of, 466 -67; technology, 465 -66
McKay, Claude, 332, 346, 383, 422, 591 -92, 794; Banana Bottom, 348, 591-92, 600; Banjo, 347 -48, 591; Home to Harlem, 346- 47, 591; The Negroes in America, 346; Trial by Lynching, 346
McLean, Kathryn Anderson. See Forbes, Kathryn
McLennan, Hugh: "Boy Meets Girl in Winnipeg: Who Cares?" 560; The Watch That Ends the Night, 578
McLennan, J. F., Primitive Marriage, 200
McLuhan, Marshall, The Gutenberg Galaxy, 485
McMurtry, Larry: All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, 460; Cadillac Jack, 460; The Desert Rose, 460; Horseman, Pass By, 460; The Last Picture Show, 460; Leaving Chey-
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McMurtry, Larry (Continued) enne, 460; Lonesome Dove, 460 61; Moving On, 460; Somebody's Darling, 460; Terms of Endearment, 460
McNally, William, Evils and Abuses in the Naval Merchant Service, 149
McNickle, D'Arcy, 455
McPartland, John, No Down Payment, 507
McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 280 -82
Madison, Charles, 359
Magazines: communist, 343 -44; late nineteenth century, 158; limitedcirculation, 682; literary, 407; middle-brow, 303
Magdalene Societies, 137
Magic realism, 457, 522 -28; Canadian, 565; Garcia Marquez and, 618
Mahan, A. T., 258
Mailer, Norman, 403, 792; Advertisements for Myself, 493; An American Dream, 493; The Armies of the Night, 493; The Executioner's Song, 449; The Naked and the Dead, 493; "The White Negro," 493; Why Are We in Vietnam? 449
Maillet, Antonine, 791; Pdlagie-LaCharrett, 572
Mail-order book clubs, 359
Mais, Roger, 592, 593, 594, 598; Black Lightning, 599; Brother Man, 599, 600; The Hills Were Joyful Together, 599
Major, Andre, 579
Majors, Charles, When Knighthood Was in Flower, 259
Makhoere, Caeserina Kona, 651
Malamud, Bernard, 498, 674, 792; The Assistant, 403; "Fidelman" stories, 403; The Fixer, 498; The Natural, 492; A New Life, 449; The Tenants, 498
Male novels: antebellum, 51; environment literature, 507- 9
Male writers, 689 -90, 694, 695, 696; Canadian, 580; domestic fiction by, 52; postmodern, 698; and women, 277, 283; working-class, fiction by, 336
— nineteenth century, 46, 56 -59, 114, 117 -18; motivation for writing, 66 -67; quality of work, 128; and women, 69 -70, 113 -15
Manfred, Frederick, 792; The Golden Bowl, 443, 458; The Manly-Hearted Woman, 455; Riders of Judgment, 443
Mangione, Jerre, 398 -401; Mount Allegro, 400–401, 404
Manhood in battle, views of, 249 -50
Manifest Destiny doctrine, 288
Mann, Horace, 148
Mann, Thomas, 750; Buddenbrooks, 314