Twentieth century. See Early twentieth century; Late twentieth century; Post- World War II era
Twysden, Duff, 320
Type categories, 205; Du Bois and, 209; late nineteenth century, 191; realist fiction and, 199 -200; and social control, 194 -96; sociology and, 201; Stein and, 210 -15
Undesirable characters, naturalist fiction, 203
Unger, Douglas, 461
Union activity, 322
United States: Canada and, 583 -84; immigrants, 653; internal colonization, 654 -55; literary culture, 47; Mukherjee's views, 677; nineteenth century, cultural influences, 48; and postmodern fiction, 699; twentieth century, 408
Universality of truth, 488
University of Chicago, 189
Unmarketable fiction, 690
Unsettled nature of early American society, 13, 14
Unsolicited novels, publication of, 683
Updike, John, 508 -9, 814; Borges viewed by, 616; The Centaur, 508; Couples, 508-9; A Month of Sundays, 449; Rabbit at Rest, 509; Rabbit Is Rich, 509; Rabbit Redux, 509; Rabbit Run, 509; S., 449
Upfield, Arthur W., Hillerman and, 455
Uplifting fiction, 116
Upward mobility, fiction of, 382
Urban fiction: dime novels, 297; story papers, 288; Western, 450 -51, 460
Urbanization: Canadian, 570; twentieth century, 407 -8
Urban literary centers, 407
Urban reform movement, 147 -49
Urban Westerns, 450-51, 460
Uslar Pietri, Arturo, 523, 524
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Utopianism: Emerson and, 469; nineteenth century, 471; reform novels and, 227 -30; technological novels, 474 -76
Utopian novels, Howells, 168
Valdez, Luís, 406
Valenzuela, Luisa, 637 -42, 814 -15; Other Weapons, 637- 41
Valgardson, W. D., 574
Values: American, James and, 164; literary, determination of, 696
van Delden, Maarten, 738
VanDerBeets, Richard, The Indian Captivity Narrative: An American Genre, 32
Van Dine, S. S. (Willard Huntington Wright), 374
Van Doren, Carl, 386
van Herk, Aritha, Places Far from Ellesmere, 567, 582
Van Vechten, Carl, 410 -11; Nigger Heaven, 411
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 622 -23, 815; Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, 622; Conversation in the Cathedral, 622; The Green House, 622-23; Who Killed Palomino Molero? 622
Vasquez, Richard, Chicano, 453
Vassière, Pierre de, 90
Veblen, Thorstein, 360; The Theory of the Leisure Class, 200; workmanship principle, 68
Vecki, Victor, Threatening Shadows, 383
Vega, Ana Lydia, 623
Ventura, Luigi Donato, Peppino, 385
Venturi, Robert, 516
Verdugo, Patricia, Detenidosdesaparecidos: Una herida abierta, 647
Vernacular realism of Twain, 168, 172
Verne, Jules, 361
Vespucci, Amerigo, 6
Victor, Metta Victoria, 139, 297; The Dead Letter, 297; Fashionable Dissipation, 139; Maum Guinea and Her Plantation "Children,"297; The Senator's Son, 139
Victorian era, ideal women, 279
Vidal, Gore, 815; The City and the Pillar, 502
Vietnam War, 453
Viezzer, Moema, 647
Vigilance, social control and, 197 -99
Viking Press, 682 -83
Villa, Silvio, 398
Villarreal, José Antonio, 406, 815- 16; Pocho, 453, 501
Vinciguerra, Francesca (Frances Winwar), 398
Violence: effectism and, 439; late twentieth century, 451; male, Oates and, 537; in postmodern culture, 520; in postmodern fiction, 698; in Western novels, 440
Viramontes, Helena María, 521, 535; The Moths and Other Stories, 522, 536
Virtual reality, 483 -84
Virtue, social, nineteenth-century ideas, 115 -17
Virtuous behavior, Cooper and, 23–25
Vizenor, Gerald, Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart, 457
Voelker, John D. See Travers, Robert
Voice, cultural, novelists and, 10–11, 14
Vonnegut, Kurt, 816; Cat's Cradle, 722; Deadeye Dick, 722; Galapagos, 722; Mother Night, 722; Player Piano, 722; The Sirens of Titan, 722; Slapstick, 722; SlaughterhouseFive, 699, 703, 704, 722
Vorticism, 317
Voting rights for women, 269; domestic ideology and, 126 -27; Emerson and, 131; nineteenth century ideas, 116; T. Roosevelt and, 270
Wage slavery, 148, 157; women and, 152
Walcott, Derek, 587, 653 Waldenbooks, 687
Waldseemüller, Martin, 6
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Walker, Alice, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, 432
Walker, Maggie, 268
Wallace, Lew, 816 -17; Ben-Hur, 258 59; The Fair God, 258
Wallant, Edward Lewis, The Pawnbroker, 403
Walton, Eda Lou, 394
War, glorification of, 317
Ware, William, 114
Warner, Charles Dudley, 272
Warner, Marian, The Vanishing American, 370
Warner, Susan B., 64, 65, 114, 271, 282, 817; The Wide, Wide World, 52, 110, 123
Warner, William, 481
Warner Communications, 687
War of 1812, 49
War poetry, World War I, 318
Warren, Austin, 397
Warren, Robert Penn, 414 -16, 488; All the King's Men, 415; At Heaven's Gate, 415; Band of Angels, 415; "The Briar Patch," 415; Brother to Dragons, 415-16; The Cave, 415; Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé, 416; John Brown: The Making of a Martyr, 415; Night Rider, 415; A Place to Come To, 415; "Prime Leaf," 415; Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South, 416; Who Speaks for the Negro? 416; World Enough and Time, 415
Warshow, Robert, 301
War stories, 249 -50; dime novels, 294; Native American, 43 -44; story papers, 289
Washington, Booker T., 274, 435; Up From Slavery, 435
Washington, George: Cooper and, 24
Washington, Mary Helen, 497
Washingtonian Societies, 137
Waters, Frank: The Man Who Killed the Deer, 443; The Woman at Otowi Crossing, 443
Watson, Sheila, The Double Hook, 565, 578, 579
Waugh, Evelyn, 451
Waugh, Patricia, 673
Wayne, John, 367
Weatherwax, Clara, 332; Marching! Marching! 339, 345
Webb, Frank J., 817; The Garies and Their Friends, 55 -56
Weber, Max, "Protestant Ethic," 191
Webster, Daniel, 218 The Weekly Anglo-African, 151
Weems, Mason, The Drunkard's Looking Glass, 138
Weininger, Otto, Sex and Character, 212
Welch, James, 457, 817; Fools Crow, 457; Winter in the Blood, 456
Weld, Theodore, 142; Slavery As It Is, 141
Wellek, René, 397, 488
Wells, H. G., 249, 361; The War of the Worlds, 362
Wells, Ida B., 236, 269
Welty, Eudora, 817- 18
West, Cornel, 521, 699
West, James L. W., American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900, 685
West, Nathanael, 451, 818; Anderson and, 327; The Day of the Locust, 327; Miss Lonelyhearts, 327
West: deromanticization of, 261 -63; idealization of, 255, 259 -61
Westbrook, Max, 442, 443
Western fiction: Canadian, 562 -65; dime novels, 294- 97; formulaic, 366 -71; gentrification of, 304; late twentieth century, 437 -64
Western Story Magazine, 302
West Indies, 586; Canadian novels set in, 584. See also under Caribbean
Wharton, Edith, 267, 270, 273, 275 77, 282, 283, 283, 818- 29; The Age of Innocence, 276; The House of Mirth, 225; The Touchstone, 276
Wheat, symbolism of, 262 -63
Wheeler, Edward L., 296, 299, 438; Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills, 301
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Whistler, Henry, 89
White, E. B., The Elements of Style, 478
White, Edmund: The Beautiful Room Is Empty, 553; A Boy's Own Story, 551, 552 -53