Bulwer-Lytton, Edward: 27
454; Something to Remember Me By: Three
Bunyan, John: Pilgrim’s Progress, 51, 66
Tales, 339; “A Theft,” 338–39; “The
Burke, Kenneth: 265
Trip to Galena,” 331; “Two Morning
Burlingame, Edward: 121
Monologues,” 330; The Victim, 331–33,
Burton, W. E.: 81
335; “What Kind of Day Did You
Butler, Caroline Hyde: 188; “Emma Alton,”
Have,” 337; “Zetland: By a Character
189, 200
Witness,” 337, 454
Butler, Octavia: Bloodchild, 478
Bendixen, Alfred: 3–19, 50–67
Butler, Robert Olen: 223
Benjamin, Park: 52
Byron, Lord George Gordon: 20, 26
Bennett, Arnold: 120
Bently, Richard: 79
Cable, George Washington: 17
Bezmozgis, David: “An Animal to the
Cabell, James Branch: The Line of Love,
Memory,” 462; Natasha, 461–62
304
504
Index
Cahan, Abraham: 202–03; “A Ghetto
Chávez, Denise: 380–87; “The Closet,” 385;
Wedding,” 468; The Imported Bridegroom
“Compadre,” 386; “Evening in Paris,” 385;
and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto,
“The Last of the Menu Girls,” 383; The
451; “A Sweatshop Romance,” 203
Last of the Menu Girls, 380; “Shooting
Cain, James M.: 426
Stars,” 385; “Space Is a Solid,” 383;
Caldwell, Erskine: “Candy-Man Beechum,”
“Willow Game,” 385
218; “Kneel to the Rising Sun,” 218
Cheever, John: “The Five-Forty-Eight,” 372
Campbell, Donna: 118–32
Chekov, Anton Pavlovich: 278, 282, 329,
Carver, Maryann Burk: What It Used To Be
373
Like, 369
Cherry, Kelly: 483, 491–97; “As It Is in
Carver, Raymond: 241, 366–77, 491; “The
Heaven,” 493, 496; “Block Party,” 488,
Afi cionados,” 372; “The Bath,” 371;
496–97; “Chores,” 493, 496; My Life and
“Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes,” 370; “The
Dr. Joyce Brothers: A Novel in Stories, 492;
Blind Man,” 373–76; “The Cabin,” 375;
“Not the Phil Donahue Show,” 492; “The
“The Calm,” 370; “Cathedral,” 223,
Prowler: A Prologue,” 492–93; The Society
366–67, 369–72, 374–77; “Elephant,”
of Friends, 483, 491–97; “Tell Her,”
367; “Errand,” 367; “Fat,” 367, 369;
495–96
Furious Seasons, 367, 372; “The Idea,”
Chesnutt, Charles: 17, 68–76, 202, 221,
369; “Neighbors,” 367, 369–70; No
469; “A Matter of Principle,” 75; Conjure
Heroics, Please, 377; “Put Yourself in My
Woman, 69, 71, 469; “Dave’s Neckliss,”
Shoes,” 367; Raymond Carver: Collected
73; “The Doll,” 69; “The Goophered
Stories, 368; “A Small Good Thing,” 370;
Grapevine,” 69, 71–72; “Her Virginia
“So Much Water, So Close To Home,”
Mammy,” 69, 74; Life of Frederick
369, 375; “The Student’s Wife,” 369;
Douglass, 73–74; “Mr. Taylor’s Funeral,”
“Tell the Women Where We’re Going,”
75; “The Passing of Grandison,” 73–74;
375; “The Train,” 372; “Viewfi nder,”
“Po’ Sandy,” 73; “Sis’ Becky’s
371; What We Talk About When We Talk
Pickaninny,” 469; “White Weeds,” 75;
About Love, 366–68, 370, 377; Where I’m
“The Wife of his Youth,” 74–75, 202,
Calling From, 367; Will You Please Be
469; The Wife of his Youth and Other
Quiet? , 367, 377
Stories of the Color Line, 74
Cather, Willa: 16, 18, 92, 135, 153, 304,
Child, Lydia Maria: 8, 191, 418
391, 432; “The Bohemian Girl,” 219;
Chin, Frank: 191, 437; “The Only Real
“Coming, Aphrodite,” 219; My Antonia! ,
Day,” 222; “Railroad Standard Time,”
219; “Neighbor Rosicky,” 219; Obscure
222; Slavery’s Pleasant Homes, 191
Destinies, 219; “Paul’s Case,” 219; “The
Chopin, Kate: 17–18, 152–68, 205–07; At
Sculptor’s Funeral,” 219; The Song of the
Fault, 156; “At the ‘Cadian Ball,”
Lark, 153; The Troll Garden, 219; “A
165–66; “Athénaïse,” 162–63; The
Wagner Matinee,” 219, Youth and the
Awakening, 153, 155, 158, 162–63, 168,
Bright Medusa, 219, 304
206; Bayou Folk, 152; “Caline,” 158;
Century Magazine: 13, 187, 203, 257, 259
“Charlie,” 166; “A Divorce Case,” 156;
Cervantes, Miguel de: 78
“Dr. Chevalier’s Lie,” 157–58; “An
Chamberlain, Betsey: “A New Society,”
Egyptian Cigarette,” 164–65; “Elizabeth
192–93
Stock’s One Story,” 167; “The Going
Chan, Jeffrey: 474
Away of Liza,” 157, 159; “A Harbinger,”
Chandler, Raymond: 425
158–59, 165; “Her Letters,” 163–64;
Chang, Diana: 437
“The Impossible Miss Meadows,” 167;
Change, Lan Samantha: 476
“In Sabine,” 156; “The Kiss,” 163; “La
Index
505
Belle Zoraïde,” 159–60; “A Lady of
Angel-Child,” 148; “The Black Dog: A
Bayou St. John,” 166; “Lilacs,” 161–62;
Night of Spectral Terror,” 136; The Black
“Loka,” 161; “Madame Célestin’s
Riders, 121; “The Blue Hotel,” 139–40;
Divorce,” 156; “The Maid at Saint
“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,”
Phillippe,” 154–56; “A Mental
138–40; “The Carriage Lamps,” 148;
Suggestion,” 166–67; “Miss McEnders,”
“The Charge of the Light Brigade,” 148;
160–61; “Mrs. Mobry’s Reason,” 157; A
“The City Urchin and the Chaste
Night in Acadie, 152, 158, 163; “The
Villagers,” 147; “The Clan of No-Name,”
Nun and the Wanton,” 162; “A Pair of
145, 149; “A Dark-Brown Dog,” 138;
Silk Stockings,” 164; “A Point at Issue!,”
“Death and the Child,” 144; “An Episode
153–54, 160; “Polly,” 167; “Regret,”
of War,” 142–44; “An Experiment in
166; “A Respectable Woman,” 159, 162,
Misery,” 137; “The Explosion of Seven
165; “A Shameful Affair,” 158, 165; “The
Babies,” 136; “The Fight,” 147; “The
Storm,” 157, 163, 165; “The Story of an
Five White Mice,” 140, 142; “Flanagan
Hour,” 164, 206–07; “Suzette,” 167;
and His Short Filibustering Adventure,”
“Two Portraits,” 162; “The Unexpected,”
141–42; “Four Men in a Cave,” 136; “A
166; A Vocation and a Voice, 162; “Wiser
Ghoul’s Accountant,” 136; “God Rest Ye,
than God,” 153, 166
Merry
Gentlemen,” 145; “A Great
Christie, Agatha: 431
Mistake,” 138; “A Grey Sleeve,” 135,
Chu, Louis: 436
143; “His New Mittens,” 148; “Hold-up
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: 46; The Offi ces, 43
Harry, the Terror of the Sierras,” 148;
Cisneros, Sandra: 380, 422, 477; The House
“The Kicking Twelfth,” 146; “A Little
on Mango Street, 222, 380; Woman
Pilgrim,” 148; The Little Regiment and
Hollering Creek, 116, 222, 477
Other Episodes of the American Civil War,
Civil War: 17, 55, 68–76, 89, 193, 253,
143; “The Lone Charge of William B.
270, 284, 411
Perkins,” 145; “The Lover and the
Clark, Lewis Gaylor: 81
Tell-Tale,” 148; “Lynx Hunting,” 147;
Coates, Robert: 265
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 136, 138,
Cofer, Judith Oritz: The Latin Deli, 477;
149, 176, 180; “Making an Orator,” 148;
“Nada,” 222
“A Man and Some Others,” 141;
Colburn, Henry: 79
“Marines Signaling under Fire at
Communism: 218, 316, 318, 323
Guantánamo,” 145; “The Men in the
Conrad, Joseph: 334
Storm,” 137–38; “The Mesmeric
Cooke, Rose Terry: 14–15, 91; “Alcedama
Mountain,” 136; “Midnight Sketches,”
Sparks; Or, Old and New,” 92; “Clary’s
136; “The Monster,” 136, 176–77; “A
Trial,” 92; “Freedom Wheeler’s
Mystery of Heroism,” 143 144; “Not
Controversy with Providence,” 92; “How
Much of a Hero,” 137; “An Ominous
Celia Changed her Mind,” 92;
Baby,” 135, 138; “One Dash – Horses,”
Huckleberries Gathered from New England
140; “The Open Boat,” 18, 137, 141–42,
Hills, 92; “Miss Lucinda,” 92, 94–97;
149, 174; “The Price of the Harness,”
“Mrs. Flint’s Married Experience,” 92;
145; “A Realistic Portrait of a Fire,” 138;
“Some Account of Thomas Tucker,” 92;
The Red Badge of Courage, 136–38,
Somebody’s Neighbors, 92; “Too Late,” 15
142–44, 147, 149, 174; “The Second
Cowley, Malcom: 256, 265, 484–85, 489,
Generation,” 145; “The Sergeant’s Private
492; The Portable Faulkner, 254
Madhouse,” 145; “Shame,” 148; “The
Crane, Stephen: 135–49, 176, 179; “And If
Shrapnel of Their Friends,” 146; “The
He Wills, We Must Die,” 146; “The
Spitzbergen Tales,” 146; “Stephen Crane’s
506
Index
Crane, Stephen ( cont’d)
Donovan, Josephine: 91–104
Own Story,” 141; “The Stove,” 148;
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: 329, 333; Notes from the
“Sullivan County Bears,” 137; The
Underground, 219
Sullivan County Tales and Sketches, 137;
double-consciousness: 317; 320–21
“This Majestic Lie,” 145; “The Trial,
Douglass, Frederick: 73, 191; The Heroic
Execution, and Burial of Homer Phelps,”
Slave, 70; Narrative of the Life of Frederick
147; “Uncle Jake and the Bell-Handle,”
Douglass, 317
136; “The Upturned Face,” 146–47; “The
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: 428; The Return of
Veteran,” 147–48; War is Kind, 121;
Sherlock Holmes, 433; A Study in Scarlet,
“War Memories,” 142, 145–46; 149;
433
“The Way in Sullivan County: A Study
Dreiser, Theodore: 173–74, 176, 179, 329;
in the Evolution of the Hunting Yarn,”
“Curious Shifts of the Poor,” 218; “The
137; “When Every One is Panic
Lost Phoebe,” 218; “The Second Choice,”
Stricken,” 138; Whilomville Stories, 149;
218; Sister Carrie, 157
Wounds in the Rain, 144–45, 147
Du Bois, W. E. B.: 319; Dusk of Dawn,
Crockett, Davy: 14, 80
320
Cronin, Gloria: 328–44
Dubus, Andre: In the Bedroom, 222;
Cruikshank, George: The Travels and
“Killings,” 222
Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen,
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence: 221; “The
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Lynching of Jube Benson,” 218; The Sport
Curnutt, Kirk: 295–315
of Gods, 70
Cutter, Martha J.: 105–17
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice: 17, 221; “Ellen
Fenton,” 107; The Goodness of St. Roque
Darwin, Charles: 172, 175, 181, 410; The
and Other Stories, 467
Descent of Man, 174; The Origin of Species,
Duncan, Charles: 68–77
174
Durivage, Francis A.: “The Fastest Funeral
Davies, Peter Ho: The Ugliest House in the
on Record,” 80
World, 475
Davis, Rebecca Harding: 182; “Life in the
Eco, Umberto: Postscript to the Name of the
Iron Mills,” 15, 194–95; Silhouettes of
Rose, 430
American Life, 15
Edgeworth, Maria: Castle Rackrent, 93
Deland, Margaret: Old Chester Tales, 130
Eisentein, Sergei: Thunder Over Mexico, 262
Delillo, Don: 432
Eggleston, Edward: 17
detective fi ction: 425–35
Eliot, T. S.: 334–35; “Gerontion,” 261;
Díaz, Junot: 477
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”
Dickens, Charles: 136, 341; Barnaby Rudge,
289; The Waste-Land, 182–83, 246,
27; A Christmas Carol, 41; The Spectator,
368
78; A Tale of Two Cities, 136; Watkins
Ellison, Ralph: 320; “Flying Home,” 221;
Tottle and other Sketches, 26
The Invisible Man, 221
Dickinson, Emily: 13
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: 97; Nature, 53
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: 476; Arranged
Englander, Nathan: 460; The Family
Marriage, 441–42; “The Bats,” 442;
Markowitz, 458; For the Relief of
“Clothes,” 442; “The Lives of Strangers,”
Unbearable Urges, 458; “The Four
442; The Unknown Errors of Our Lives,
Questions,” 458; In This Way We Are
441–42
Wise, 460; “The Tumblers,” 460; “The
Dixon, Thomas: 70
Wig,” 458
Donato, Pietro di: “Christ in Concrete,” 472
Epstein, Joseph: Fabulous Small Jews, 461
Index
507
Erdrich, Louise: 422, 488; The Beat Queen,
245–46; The Town, 245; “Twilight,” 245;
221; Love Medicine, 211, 488; “The Red
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner,
Convertible,” 221
245; The Unvanquished, 245, 250; “The
Existentialism: 219, 333
Village,” 246; “Wash,” 252–53; “The
Wilderness,” 246, 250
Fanon, Frantz: 322–23
Fauset, Jessie: 471
Far, Sui Sin [Edith Maude Eaton]: 202;
Fay, Theodore Sedgwick: Norman Leslie, 27
“The Chinese Ishmael,” 203; “Its
feminist
literary tradition: 15, 105–16, 477
Wavering Image,” 468; “Mrs. Spring
Fields, Annie: 397
Fragrance,” 203; Mrs. Spring Fragrance,
Fields, James: 397
468; “My Chinese Husband,” 438, 468;
Fink, Mike: 80
“The Story of One White Woman Who
Finn, Henry: “The Frog Catcher,” 87
Married a Chinese,” 438
Fisher, Benjnamin F.: 20–34
Farrell, James T.: “The Fastest Runner on
Fitzgerald, Scott F.: 229, 241, 295–314;
Sixty-First Street,” 218; “For White Men
“Absolution,” 220, 305; “The Adolescent
Only,” 218; “Helen, I Love You,” 218
Marriage,” 302; “An Alcoholic Case,” 312;
Faulkner, William, 14, 39, 78, 241,
All the Sad Young Men, 296; “Babes in the
244–54, 278, 296–97, 304, 312, 328,
Woods,” 299; “Babylon Revisited,” 220,
364, 432; Absalom! Absalom! , 246–47,
295, 297, 302, 305–06; “Benediction,”
251–52; “Artist at Home,” 254; As I Lay
299–300, 303; “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,”
Dying, 246, 250; “Barn Burning,” 220,
300–01, 312; “The Bridal Party,” 302;
244–48, 251, 253–54; “The Bear,” 220,
“The Camel’s Back,” 298, 300; “Crazy
246; “Beyond,” 254; “The Big Shot,”
Sunday,” 306; “The Curious Case of
245; The Big Woods, 245; “Carcassonne,”
Benjamin Button,” 301, 306–07; “The
254; “Centaur in Brass,” 245; Collected
Cut-Glass Bowl,” 301; “Dalyrimple Goes
Stories of William Faulkner, 245–46,
Wrong,” 299; “The Debutante,” 299;
248–52, 254, 364; “The Country,” 246;
“The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” 301,
“Delta Autumn,” 220, 298; Doctor
312; “Diamond Dick and the First Law of
Martino and Other Stories, 245–46,
Women,” 313; “Dice, Brassknuckles &
253–54; “Dry September,” 251–53; “The
Guitar,” 307; Flappers and Philosophers,
Fire and the Hearth,” 220; Go Down,
295; “The Four Fists,” 298, 301; The
Moses, 245–46, 250, 251; “Golden Land,”
Great Gatsby, 280, 296, 303, 311; “I Got
254; The Hamlet, 245–47; “Honor,” 246,
Shoes,” 296; “The Ice Palace,” 300–01,
254; “A Justice,” 250, 251; Knight’s
312; “Image on the Heart,” 303; “Jacob’s
Gambit, 245–46; Light in August, 245–46;
Ladder,” 305–06; “The Last of the Belles,”
“The Old People,” 220, 246; “The
308, 313; “The Lees of Happiness,” 313;
Middle Ground,” 252; “Mountain
“The Lost Decade,” 306, 312; “The Love
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