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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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The Columbia History of the American Novel

Emory Elliott, General Editor

Associate Editors Cathy N. Davidson Patrick O'Donnell Valerie Smith Christopher P. Wilson

Columbia University Press

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The Columbia history of the American novel / Emory Elliott , general editor; associate editors, Cathy N. Davidson ...[et al.].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-231-07360-7 (alk. paper)

1. American fiction -- History and criticism. I. Elliott, Emory, 1942 -- II. Davidson, Cathy N., 1949 --

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