White, Walter, 411, 420; The Fire in the Flint, 420
White City, 189 -91
Whitehead, Alfred North, 314
Whiteness, symbolism of, 106, 108 -9, 189-91
Whiteside, Thomas, 680, 686, 687
White Southern writers, and blacks, 417 -20
Whitman, Elizabeth, 16
Whitman, Sarah Helen, 104
Whitman, Walt, 8, 104; and Civil War, 157; Franklin Evans, 138; Leaves of Grass, preface to, 104; Specimen Days, 157
Whittaker, Frederick, 285, 293; Larry Locke, the Man of Iron; or, A Fight for Fortune. A Story of Labor and Capital, 301
Whyte, William H., The Organization Man, 485
Wiebe, Rudy, The Temptations of Big Bear, 563
Wilder, Billy, Double Indemnity (film), 378
Wilderness, importance of, in Western fiction, 459
Wild West Weekly, 296
Willard, Frances, 236
Williams, Denis, 597; Other Leopards, 598
Williams, Jeanne, 440
Williams, Raymond, 304, 526; Keywords, 286; Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 481 82
Williams, Tennessee, 430
Williams, William Carlos, 311
Williamsburg trilogy, Fuchs, 393
Williamson, Jack, The Humanoids, 365 -66
Willis, N. P., 63
Willis, Sara Payson. See Fern, Fanny
Wilmington, North Carolina, Riot (1898), 179
Wilson, Amrit, Finding a Voice, 676
Wilson, Augusta Evans, St. Elmo, 110
Wilson, Edmund, 323
Wilson, Ethel, Swamp Angel, 564
Wilson, Harriet E. Adams, 282, 819; Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, 55–56, 127 -28, 152 -53
Wilson, Sloan, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, 507 -8
Wilson, Woodrow, 411
Winchell, Mark Royden, 451
Winther, Sophus K., Take All to Nebraska, 441
Winwar, Frances. See Vinciguerra, Francesca
Wiseman, Adele, 574
Wister, Owen, 304, 819; The Virginian, 259 -60, 304, 368 -70, 439
Woiwode, Larry, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, 461
Wolfe, Thomas, 575
Wolitzer, Meg, This Is Your Life, 466 -67
Wolman, John, 31
Womanhood: nineteenth-century ideal, 57, 60, 65, 118 -19; Victorian stereotype, 219
Woman Movement, 270
Women: abolitionists, 142 -43; and art, 272 -73; change in status, 298; colonial, education of, 657; early American views, 15–19; exploitation of, nineteenth century, 152; idealization of, slavery and, 102; metaphoric exile, 651; moral superiority of, 124 26; nineteenth century, 50, 114, 142-43, 276; and social change, 268 -70; and social reform, 236; Southern, 424 -25; and temperance movement, 137; Victorian ideal, 279; West Indian, 594; Wright and, 433 -34
--- African American, 268, 269; and domesticity, 127-28; Hurston and, 423 -24
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Women (Continued)
--- as audience, 688 -89; for dime novels, 297, 301
--- fictional representations: in adventure fiction, 378; in detective novels, 371 -73, 376 -78; in frontier novels, 438; by Hemingway, 322; in Latin American fiction, 615; by Poe, 94 95, 97, 101 -2; in realist fiction, 187, 200 -201; in Western fiction, 367 -68, 371
--- immigrant, 269; suffragists and, 126; as writers, 273
--- status of: nineteenth century, 142 43; post-World War II, 486; reform novels and, 230- 32, 235 -36; in slavery, 153
--- work of, 268, 269; antebellum novels and, 51; domestic ideology and, 125 -26; 1930s, 338
--- as writers, 5, 270 -84, 338, 694 -95, 695; of adventure narratives, 52; African American, 270, 173, 283, 421 -25, 496; Canadian, 561; Cather and, 278 -79; of detective stories, 297, 373; of dime novels, 297; and divorce, 143 -44; of experimental fiction, 699; Hawthorne and, 69; immigrant, 273; Irish American, 397 -98; Italian American, 398, 399; Latin American, 623 -25, 629, 633 -47; male writers and, 62 63; Native American, autobiographical writings, 45; nineteenth century, 46, 56 -57, 59 -60, 110, 114, 282 83; Norris's view, 267 -68; Poe and, 70; postmodern, 698, 723; professionalism of, 64 -65; of proletarian fiction, 333; Southern, 425 -26; of technological utopias, 475; of Western fiction, 367-68, 457 -58, 462; working class, 350 -56
Women's clubs, 268
Women's magazines, 303
Women's movement, abolitionism and, 142-43
Women's narratives, in story papers, 289 -90
Women's novels: Canadian, 579 -81; Caribbean, 603 -4; detective novels and, 373; nineteenth century, 110 11; post-World War II, 505 -7; temperance themes, 138 -40
Women's suffrage: domestic ideology and, 126 -27; Emerson and, 131
Wong, Jade Snow, Fifth Chinese Daughter, 500
Wong, Shawn, 406
Wood, Thelma, 328
Woods, Clement, Nigger, 420
Woodward, C. Vann, 411
Woolf, Virginia, 95, 314
Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 282 Workers, expatriate, 653
Worker's Dreadnaught, 346
Working class, 331-56; and cheap fiction, 293 -94; and dime novels, 300 -301; ethnic novels, 384, 385; migrants, 659; nineteenth century, 177; temperance movement and, 137; white, social reformers and, 146, 147
--- writers, 343 -44; women, 1930s, 350-56
Working conditions, reform fiction, 232 -33, 227 -28
Working-girl romances, 297
Workplace novels, post- World War II, 506
World's Anti-Slavery Convention (1840), 142, 218
World's Columbian Exposition (1893), 189, 242, 251 -52
World War I, 318; Hemingway and, 319
World War II, 491; Canada and, 570; and ethnic literature, 401 -2; paperback books, 359, 686
Worship, domesticity and, 121
Wouk, Herman, 819 -20; The Caine Mutiny, 490; Marjorie Morningstar, 504
Wren, M. K. (Martha Kay Renfroe), 456
Wright, Frances, 133, 148, 820
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 197
Wright, Harold Bell, 283; The Winning of Barbara Worth, 477
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Wright, Richard, 326, 344, 413, 430 31, 489, 820; Black Boy, 433, 434; "Bright and Morning Star," 348 -49; Eight Men, 433; "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," 433; Lawd Today, 433; The Long Dream, 433, 434; "The Man Who Killed a Shadow," 431; Native Son, 87, 348, 432 -33, 495; The Outsider, 433; Savage Holiday, 434; Uncle Tom's Children, 348, 433; White Man, Listen! 431
Wright, Robert C., 455
Wright, Willard Huntington. See Van Dine, S. S.
Writers, 694 -95; identities of, 652 -53; Stein's view, 213 -14. See also Male writers; Women, as writers
Wylder, Delbert, 446
Wylie, Philip, When Worlds Collide, 365
Wynter, Sylvia, 594; The Hills of Hebron, 603
Yarborough, Richard, 349
Yezierska, Anzia, 273, 387 -89; Bread Givers, 388, 389; "Fat of the Land," 387; Hungry Hearts, 387, 388-89; Red Ribbon on a White Horse, 389; Salome of the Tenements, 387, 388
Young Rough Rider Weekly, 296 -97 Youth, Enlightenment concept, 115
Zalaquett, José, 618
Zapata, Luis, En jirones, 630 -31
Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin), 270 -71
Zollinger, Norman, 461
Zugsmith, Leane, A Time to Remember, 339, 345
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