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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00137-4 - The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature Edited by Dale M. Bauer Index More information Index Notes: Titles of works which receive frequent mention or detailed analysis are indexed under their titles; works receiving only passing reference appear as subheadings under the author’s name. Anonymous works are grouped under ‘Anon’ unless receiving detailed treatment. 1920s fiction (male), overshadowing of later Acker, Kathy writers 503–5 Blood and Guts in High School 541 1920s women’s fiction 422–40 Great Expectations 541 commercial successes 422, 423–4 Ackerman, Diane 306 critical neglect 422–3 actresses, role in Shakespeare studies 151–2 depiction of fractured inner lives Adams, Abigail 96, 106 433–8 Adams, Alice, Careless Love 510 emotional restraint 437–8 Adams, Hannah 103 innovativeness 432–3 Adams, Katherine H. 620 old-fashioned image (of works/writers) Adams, Rachel 603 424 Addams, Jane 151, 623, 642 1930s see Depression-era literature; Great Adorno, Theodor W. 561, 564, 572 Depression advertising 1960s culture/literature 509–14 1920s writers’ use of 426–8, 431 targeting of female consumers 532 “A Conversation with My Father” (Paley) African American autobiographies 282–9 467 authorial claims for 285 Aaron, Daniel, Writers on the Left 477 centrality of male history 284–5 Abboud, Soo Kim, Top of the Class 563 contrasting of public and private history Abel, Elizabeth, “Black Writing, White 288–9 Reading” 565, 638, 650 “great man” approach 285–6 abolitionism 165–6, 273–4 historical significance 286–7, 288–9 literary expressions 83, 168–9, 171–8 inversion of protocols 288–9 oratory 608, 618–19 providential elements 286–7 transatlantic movement 257, 258–62, 263–7, African American (women’s) writing 9, 269–70 273–90, 404–19, 446–56 see also Uncle Tom’s Cabin children’s literature 320–1 About Lyddy Thomas (Wolff) 46–7, 505 collaborations 279–81 Abraham, Pearl, TheRomanceReader 472 contemporary 546 Abrams, M. H., Glossary of Literary Terms 519 critical responses 276–7 accidents depiction of fractured characters 434–5 cultural debates on 397 Depression-era 492 fictional narratives centered on 387–92, distinctive characteristics 274–6, 281–2 395–400 diversity 277–9 increasing frequency 397–8 drama 358–9, 360–1 655 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00137-4 - The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature Edited by Dale M. Bauer Index More information Index African American (women’s) writing (cont.) correspondence 207–8, 215, 216–17, 222–3 earliest examples 56, 320 denial of “genius” 220, 222–7 feminist interest in 565 economic motivations 222, 334 geographical origins 278–9 evolution of critical attitudes to 579–80 historical 282–3 Gothic fiction 315 historical relocation, processes of 282 journals 208 imitative characteristics 418–19 negotiations with publishers 216–17 literary societies 280–1, 612, 638–9 portrayal of unconventional families 315 need for expansion of critical focus 450–1 queer studies 579–81 nineteenth-century poetry 242, 249 sentimentality 580 performative techniques 277 “Cupid and Chow-Chow” 336–7 presented as exceptional 275 Diana and Persis (unfinished) 224–5 productivity 1890–1910 370 Echoes of Harper’s Ferry 216–17 publication 278 Eight Cousins 315 range of subjects 279 Flower Fables 222, 314 recovery of lost/ignored texts 450 “The Freak of a Genius” 223–4, 225–6, 227 reworking of conventions 404–8 “Genius” (undeveloped idea) 225 social context 274–5, 281; accessibility via Hospital Sketches 35, 207, 216–17, 579 text 276, 277, 281–2, 289–90 Jo’s Boys 216, 217 uncrafted nature 276–7 Moods 217, 224 see also African American autobiographies “My Girls” 315 African Americans On Picket Duty and Other Tales 216 cultural/legal exclusion 274, 465–6 TheRoseFamily:AFairyTale 216 education 610, 611 Work: A Story of Experience 224, 227 Great Migration 369 Aldrich, Mildred limits on women’s activities 281–2 On the Edge of the War Zone 39 literary claims for equal rights 448–9 A Hilltop on the Marne 39 masculine focus of narratives 282–3 Alexander, Meena 565 public speaking 608, 612, 616–18, Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) 126 620–1 Alkalay-Gut, Karen 357 rights activism 273–4, 279 Allen, Daphne Ryan 645–6 shortage of (women’s) history 275–6 Allen, Hervey 42 stereotypical depictions 346, 404 Allen, John 177 see also African American (women’s) Allen, Paula Gunn 14, 16 writing The Sacred Hoop 24 The Age of Innocence (Wharton) 425, 426–7, Allende, Isabel 601 431, 432, 440 Althusser, Louis 521 references to publicity 428–9 Alvarez, Julia 594, 595, 605 AIDS epidemic 547 IntheNameofSalome´ 595 Akins, Zoe¨ 359 In the Time of Butterflies 321, 595 The Old Maid 366 ¡Yo! 321, 595 Alaimo, Stacy 306 see also How the Garcia Girls Lost their Alarcon,´ Norma 593 Accents “Chicana’s Feminist Literature” 605 Amarilis, “Epistola a Belardo” 59–60 Albee, Edward 352, 360 American Indian (women’s) writing 11–13, Alcott, A. Bronson 150, 223, 225 16–26, 215, 335, 382 Alcott, Louisa May 6, 168, 204–8, 212, 222–8, colonial-era, shortage of 65 313, 314–16, 394 common perceptions of 11–12, 14–16 ambidexterity 204 distinctive characteristics 15, 17 authorial status 213–14, 215–17 oral traditions 14–16 biography/career 314–15 political significance 13, 25–6 comments on own work/career 205–6 relationship with land/community 13 contributions to suffrage movement 329 scope of definition 11, 12–13 656 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00137-4 - The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature Edited by Dale M. Bauer Index More information Index treatments of identity 18–19 “The Truth of Fiction, and its Charms” US cultural appropriation 26, 27 (1853) 327–8 American Indians “The Young Girl’s Resolution” (1810–14) assimilation of white captives 19 239 attacks on settlers 30 anthologies 1–2, 17, 63, 528–9 dismissive/Eurocentric view of 12, 13, Anthony, Susan B. 327, 330 262 anthropology 68, 411, 606 education 610–11, 638 Antin, Mary 460–3, 464, 468, 472 pre-Columbian presence 12–13 Jewish identity 462–3 present-day nations/communities 13–14 From Plotsk to Boston 462 protests at ill-treatment 240 see also The Promised Land religious conversions 61 Anzaldua,´ Gloria 527, 591–2, 593, 601 representations in British works 262–3 influence 593 rights activism 22, 263 Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza self-definitions 14 591, 593 stereotyping 12, 16, 18–19, 21–2, 215 “To Live in the Borderlands Means You” sympathetic portrayals 128–31, 191, 201, 373 527, 528 tribal histories 15 (and Cherr´ıe Moraga, eds.) This Bridge see also American Indian women’s writing; Called My Back: Writings by Radical Red Power movement Women of Color 529, 591 American literature, scope of definition An Appeal in Favor of the Class of Americans 68–70, 539 Called Africans (Child) 171–7, 178 American Monthly Magazine 177–8 aftermath of publication 177 American Monthly Review 176–7 impact on author’s reputation 172, 174, American Quarterly Review 176 175–8, 181 American Revolution 91–112, 520 negative reviews 171–2, 175–6 significance for women 92, 103–7 positive reviews 176–7 treatments in historical fiction 193 Appleton, D., & Co. (publishers) 426–7 women’s history in 91–2 Arbenz, Jacopo 597 see also Revolutionary-era women’s archeology 66 writing; Revolutionary War Arendt, Hannah 465–6, 471 American Women Writers series 635 “Reflections on Little Rock” 465–6 American women’s writing Argersinger, Jo Ann 369 modes of study 1, 4–5, 7–9 Aristophanes, Lysistrata 337 reception 8, 9 Aristotle relationship to male canon 1–2 Poetics 144, 608 significance of gender 577–8 Armstrong, Isobel 250 terminology 8–9 Armstrong, Nancy 121 see also women; specific genres/periods Arnow, Harriette 5 Ammons, Elizabeth The Dollmaker 507 Conflicting Stories 370–1, 375, 381 Art Theater 356–8 “Cool Diana and the Blood-Red Muse” Ashbridge, Elizabeth 62 424, 440 Asian American (women’s) writing 557–71 Amsbary, Mary Anne, Caesar’s Angel 506 cinema 560 Anderson, Benedict 242, 634 (debates on) value 558 Anderson, Rufus 20 drama 560 Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman 39 ephemeral quality 564 Andrews, William 450 experimental 571 Angelou, Maya 6, 384 futuristic 569 Anon. handling of abusive practices in Asian “A few lines written by a lady” (1794) 104 cultures 559, 562–3 “Genius” 221 intertextuality 569–70 “Sarcasm Against the Ladies” (1756) 78 non-fiction 558–9, 562, 563 657 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00137-4 - The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature Edited by Dale M. Bauer Index More information Index Asian American (women’s) writing (cont.) Babbitt, Natalie, Tuck Everlasting 318 political engagement 561–2, 565–9, 570–1 Bacon, Delia 149, 158 pro-American ideology 564 Bacon, Frances 149 problems of definition 557–8, 560–1, 572 Bailey, Temple 39 range of genres 563 Bailyn, Bernard 91–2, 113–14 reception issues 557 Ballard, Martha 66 treatment of marginalization 559 Balzac, Honorede´ 214 Atherton, Gertrude 6 Banerjee, Anjali 563 Julia France and Her Times 329, 339 Bannet, Eve Tavor 66 Patience Sparhawk and Her Times 373 Banning, Margaret 44 see also The White Morning Women for Defense 44 Atlantic Monthly 298 Bannon, Ann, Odd Girl Out 508 The Atlantic Souvenir (gift book) 188 Baraka, Amiri 360 Attie, Jeanne 50 Barbe-Marbois,´ Marquis de 146 Auerbach, Nina, Our Vampires, Ourselves Barish, Jonas 353 584 Barker-Benfield, G.
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