Outline of American Literature by Kathryn Vanspanckeren - HTML preview

In Cold Blood (Truman Capote) 107, 136

Jubilee (Margaret Walker) 145

“In Cold Storm Light” (Leslie Marmon Silko) 92

“Jug of Rum, The” (Philip Freneau) 21

In Country (Bobbie Ann Mason) 144

Juneteenth (Ralph Ellison) 102

Independence Day (Richard Ford) 145

Jungle, The (Upton Sinclair) 55

Indian Killer (Sherman Alexie) 152

Just, Ward 143

Indian Lawyer, The (James Welch) 116

“Just Off Main Street” (Elmaz Abinader) 155

Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) 137

“in Just” (Edward Estlin Cummings) 68

Kate Vaiden (Reynolds Price) 112

Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Kelly, Brigit Pegeen 124

Gustavas Vassa, the African, The (Olaudah Equiano) 13

Kenan, Randall 146

Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri) 154

Kennedy, William 112, 141

In the Boom Boom Room (David Rabe) 119

Kerouac, Jack 49, 79, 87, 101, 107

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William Gass) 108

Kesey, Ken 108, 147

In the Loyal Mountains (Rick Bass) 147

Key Into the Languages of America, A (Roger Williams) 10

In the Night Season (Richard Bausch) 142

Kincaid, Jamaica 115, 152

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) 101, 102

King, Martin Luther, Jr. 30, 107, 146

“Irises” (Li-Young Lee) 127

King, Stephen 42, 140

Iron Heel, The (Jack London) 55

Kingsolver, Barbara 148

Ironweed (William Kennedy) 112, 141

Kingston, Maxine Hong 94, 113, 116, 150

Irving, John 112

“Kitchenette Building” (Gwendolyn Brooks) 81

Irving, Washington 14, 21, 22-23, 24, 33

Kitchen God’s Wife, The (Amy Tan) 116

I Sailed With Magellan (Stuart Dybek) 146

Kite Runner, The (Khaled Hosseini) 136

Kizer, Carolyn 90

Jacobs, Harriet 45

Knight, Sarah Kemble 9, 24

James, Henry 51-52, 53, 62

Koch, Kenneth 88

Janowitz, Tama 112, 142

Komunyakaa, Yusef 125, 133-134

Jarman, Mark 125

Krik? Krak! (Edwidge Danticat) 152

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Kumin, Maxine 90, 130

London, Jack 47, 48, 53, 54, 55, 149

Kushner, Tony 139

Lonely Crowd, The (David Riesman) 101

Kyger, Joanne 86

Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The (Sherman Alexie) 152

La casa de los espíritus (Isabel Allende) 153

Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry) 148

LaHaye, Tim 136

Long and Happy Life, A (Reynolds Price) 112

Lahiri, Jhumpa 154

Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Eugene O’Neill) 78

Land of Unlikeness (Robert Lowell) 81

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 32-33

“Language” Poetries: An Anthology (Douglas Messerli, ed.) 95

Longstreet, Augustus 49

Last of the Menu Girls, The (Denise Chavez) 149

Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe) 111

Last Picture Show, The (Larry McMurtry) 148

Loon Lake (E.L. Doctorow) 113

Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, The (John Barth) 109

Lorde, Audre 90, 94, 142

Latin Deli, The (Judith Ortiz Cofer) 153

Lord Weary’s Castle (Robert Lowell) 81

Lauterbach, Ann 122

Lost in the Funhouse (John Barth) 109

Leaf and the Cloud, The (Mary Oliver) 130

Lovecraft, H.P. 42

Leaning Tower, The (Katherine Anne Porter) 100

Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich) 117

Leather-Stocking Tales (James Fenimore Cooper) 24, 38

“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” (T.S. Eliot) 64

Leave It to Me (Bharati Mukherjee) 154

Lowell, Amy 63, 90

Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) 31, 67

Lowell, James Russell 32, 33, 50

Leaving Cheyenne (Larry McMurtry) 148

Lowell, Robert 80, 81-82, 83, 86, 121

Leavitt, David 138

“Luck of Roaring Camp, The” (Bret Harte) 50

Lee, Chang-rae 154

Lucky Spot, The (Beth Henley) 140

Lee, Li-Young 127-128

Lucy (Jamaica Kincaid) 152

“Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Washington Irving) 22

“Luke Havergal” (Edwin Arlington Robinson) 57

Legends of the Fall (Jim Harrison) 147

Leithauser, Brad 96

MacDonald, John D. 42

Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis) 112

Macdonald, Ross 42

“Letter From a Region of My Mind” (James Baldwin) 102

Machine Dreams (Jayne Anne Phillips) 144

Letters (John Barth) 109

Mac Low, Jackson 95

Letters From an American Farmer

Madwoman in the Attic, The

(Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur) 18

(Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar) 90

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (Randall Kenan) 146

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Stephen Crane) 47, 54

Levertov, Denise 85, 86, 90

Magic Barrel, The (Bernard Malamud) 104

Levine, Lawrence 116

Magnalia Christi Americana (Cotton Mather) 10

Levine, Philip 82, 84-85, 133

Mailer, Norman 97, 107, 109, 110, 113, 116

Lewis, Meriwether 21

Main Street (Sinclair Lewis) 73

Lewis, Sinclair 60, 69, 72, 73, 74, 75, 146

Main-Travelled Roads (Hamlin Garland) 55

Libra (Don DeLillo) 141

Malamud, Bernard 101, 104, 116

Lie Down in Darkness (William Styron) 113

Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett, Dashiell) 99

Life on the Mississippi (Mark Twain) 49

Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The (Oscar Hijuelos) 116

Life Studies (Robert Lowell) 82

Mamet, David 119

“Ligeia” (Edgar Allan Poe) 41

“Management of Grief, The” (Bharati Mukherjee) 154

Light in August (William Faulkner) 72

ManifestA (Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards) 137

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin 127, 154

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (Sloan Wilson) 101

Lindsay, Vachel 56-57

Man Made of Words, The (N. Scott Momaday) 149

Literature of Their Own, A (Elaine Showalter) 90

Manor, The (Isaac Bashevis Singer) 104

Little Foxes, The (Lillian Hellman) 99

Mansion, The (William Faulkner) 72

Little Green Men (Christopher Buckley) 143

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (August Wilson) 120

“Little Rabbit Dead in the Grass, A” (Mark Doty) 128

Marble Faun, The (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 38

Live or Die (Anne Sexton) 83

“Marriage” (Gregory Corso) 87

Lives of the Heart, The (Jane Hirshfield) 129

Marriage Play (Edward Albee) 117

Living, The (Annie Dillard) 151

Marrow of Tradition, The (Charles Waddell Chesnutt) 59

Locked Room, The (Paul Auster) 142

Marshall, Paule 152

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) 105

Martin Eden (Jack London) 47, 54, 57

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Mason, Bobbie Ann 138, 144

Mommy Myth, The (Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels) 137

Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon) 109

Mona in the Promised Land (Gish Jen) 150

Masters, Edgar Lee 56, 57

Month of Sundays, A (John Updike) 106

Mather, Cotton 10

Moody, Rick 141

Mating (Norman Rush) 150

Moon Lake (Eudora Welty) 100

M. Butterfly (David Henry Hwang) 116

Moore, Lorrie 138

McCarthy, Cormac 144

Moore, Marianne 68, 85

McCarthy, Mary 141

Mora, Pat 148

McCorkle, Jill 144

Morales, Aurora Levins 153

McCourt, Frank 138, 141

Mori, Toshio 150

McDermott, Alice 141, 142

Morrison, Toni 46, 76, 114-115, 116

McGuane, Thomas 147

Morse, Jedidiah 21

McInerney, Jay 112, 142

Mosquito Coast, The (Paul Theroux) 112

McKay, Claude 69

Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O’Neill) 78

McMurtry, Larry 147, 148

Moviegoer, The (Walker Percy) 112

McPherson, James Alan 145

Mr. Ives’ Christmas (Oscar Hijuelos) 153

McPherson, Sandra 128

Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Saul Bellow) 103

Meadowlands (Louise Glück) 124

Mr. Spaceman (Robert Olen Butler) 147

Mean Spirit (Linda Hogan) 148

Mukherjee, Bharati 153-154

Medea (Robinson Jeffers) 68

“Mule Heart” (Jane Hirshfield) 129

Mehta, Ved 138

Mules and Men (Zora Neale Hurston) 76

Melville, Herman 8, 14, 22, 23, 24, 27, 32, 36, 37, 38-40, 49

Mullen, Harryette 145

Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) 136

Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed) 145

Mencken, H.L. 21

Murray, Judith Sargent 25

Merrill, James 80

Muse & Drudge (Harryette Mullen) 145

Merwin, W.S. 89, 122

Museums and Women (John Updike) 106

Messerli, Douglas 95

Music School, The (John Updike) 106

Metrical History of Christianity (Edward Taylor) 8

My Alexandria (Mark Doty) 128

Mexico City Blues (Jack Kerouac) 107

My Antonia (Willa Cather) 58

M’Fingal (John Trumbull) 20

“My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 38

Miami and the Siege of Chicago (Norman Mailer) 110

My Life (Lyn Hejinian) 122

Michaels, Meredith 137

My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (Ann Beattie) 143

Mickelsson’s Ghosts (John Gardner) 114

My Life As a Man (Philip Roth) 110

Middleman and Other Stories, Th e (Bharati Mukherjee) 153

“My Lost Youth” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 33

Middle Passage (Charles Johnson) 146

Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The (Michael Chabon) 143

Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) 141

Mysteries of Winterthurn (Joyce Carol Oates) 114

“Midnight Consultation, A” (Philip Freneau) 20

Myths and Texts (Gary Snyder) 82

Millay, Edna St. Vincent 90

Miller, Arthur 97, 98-99, 101, 116, 119

Nabokov, Vladimir 105, 108

Miller, Sue 140

Nafisi, Azar 136

Millett, Kate 90, 110

Naked and the Dead, The (Norman Mailer) 97

Mills, C. Wright 101

Naked Lunch, The (William Burroughs) 87

Mills of the Kavanaughs, The (Robert Lowell) 81

Namesake, The (Jhumpa Lahiri) 154

Minh-Ha, Trinh 154

Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (Edgar Allan Poe) 36

“Minister’s Black Veil, The” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 38

Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Sojourner Truth) 43

“Miniver Cheevy” (Edwin Arlington Robinson) 57

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Mirikitani, Janice 91, 94, 150

Slave (Frederick Douglass) 46

Miss Firecracker Contest, The (Beth Henley) 140

Native Son (Richard Wright) 75, 152

Mistress of Spices, The (Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni) 154

Native Speaker (Chang-rae Lee) 154

Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) 8, 36, 37, 38-40, 146

Natural, The (Bernard Malamud) 104

Modern Chivalry (Hugh Henry Brackenridge) 20

Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 28

Modern Instance, A (William Dean Howells) 51

Naylor, Gloria 143

Mohr, Nicholasa 153

Necromance (Rae Armantrout) 122

Momaday, N. Scott 116, 147, 149

Negative Blues (Charles Wright) 125

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“Negro Speaks of Rivers, The” (Langston Hughes) 69

“Open Boat, The” (Stephen Crane) 54

“Neighbour Rosicky” (Willa Cather) 58

Opening of the American Mind, The (Lawrence Levine) 116

Neon Vernacular (Yusef Komunyakaa) 134

O Pioneers! (Willa Cather) 58

Nepantla: Essays From the Land in the Middle

Oppenheimer, Joel 86

(Sandra Cisneros) 148

Optimist’s Daughter, The (Eudora Welty) 100

New American Poetry, 1945-1960 (Donald Allen, ed.) 86

Organization Man, The (William Whyte) 101

New and Selected Poems (Mary Oliver) 130

Ormond (Charles Brockden Brown) 22

“New Black Aesthetic, The” (Trey Ellis) 143

Orphan, The (David Rabe) 119

New Criticism, The (John Crowe Ransom) 77

Ortiz, Simon 91, 92, 125

New Life, A (Bernard Malamud) 104

Orwell, George 55

“New Poem, The” (Charles Wright) 89

Our Nig (Harriet Wilson) 45

Next Year in Cuba (Gustavo Pérez Firmat) 152

Our Town (Thornton Wilder) 78

Nickel Mountain (John Gardner) 114

“Outcasts of Poker Flat, The” (Bret Harte) 50

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Jane Hirshfield) 129

“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (Walt Whitman) 31

Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger) 107

Outre-Mer (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 33

1984 (George Orwell) 55

Oxherding Tale (Charles Johnson) 146

1919 (John Dos Passos) 73

Ozick, Cynthia 142

Nobody Knows My Name (James Baldwin) 102

Noon Wine (Katherine Anne Porter) 100

Packard, Vance 101

Norris, Frank 53, 55

Packer, ZZ 145

Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, The

Paine, Thomas 19

(Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar) 90

Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) 105

Notebook, 1967-68 (Robert Lowell) 82

Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Katherine Anne Porter) 100

Paley, Grace 142

O Albany! (William Kennedy) 141

Palmer, Michael 95

Oates, Joyce Carol 97, 114, 140

Papers on Art and Literature (Margaret Fuller) 34

“O Black and Unknown Bards” (James Weldon Johnson) 59

Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler) 146

O’Connor, Flannery 100, 102-103, 115

Paradise (Toni Morrison) 115

October Light (John Gardner) 112, 114

Park City (Ann Beattie) 138

Octopus, The (Frank Norris) 55

Parker, Theodore 27

Odets, Clifford 72, 78

Parks, Suzan-Lori 140

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) 74

Parts of a World (Wallace Stevens) 66

“Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (W.E.B. Du Bois) 59

Paterson (William Carlos Williams) 67, 75

Of Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford) 6

Patrimony: A True Story (Philip Roth) 111

O’Hara, Frank 88, 118, 132

Pearl of Orr’s Island, The (Harriet Beecher Stowe) 50

O’Hara, John 101-102

Pentimento (Lillian Hellman) 99

“Old Ironsides” (Oliver Wendell Holmes) 33

Percy, Walker 112

Old Man and the Sea, The (Ernest Hemingway) 71

Perelman, Bob 95

Old Money (Wendy Wasserstein) 140

Pérez Family, The (Christine Bell) 153

Old Neighborhood, The (David Mamet) 119

Perfect Recall (Ann Beattie) 138

Olds, Sharon 126

“Persimmons” (Li-Young Lee) 127

Oleanna (David Mamet) 119

“Peter Quince at the Clavier” (Wallace Stevens) 66

Oliver, Mary 130-131

Phillips, Jayne Anne 144

Olsen, Tillie 147

Piano Lesson, The (August Wilson) 120

Olson, Charles 86

Picture Bride (Cathy Song) 94

Omensetter’s Luck (William Gass) 108

Pictures of Fidelman (Bernard Malamud) 104

“On Being Brought From Africa to America”

Picturing Will (Beattie, Ann) 143

(Phillis Wheatley) 25

Pigs in Heaven (Barbara Kingsolver) 149

On Being Female, Black, and Free (Margaret Walker) 145

Pike, Zebulon 21

On Boxing (Joyce Carol Oates) 114

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard) 151

Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera (John Barth) 109

“Pilot of Hatteras, The” (Philip Freneau) 21

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey) 108

Pinsky, Robert 132-133

O’Neill, Eugene 69, 77-78

Pioneers, The (James Fenimore Cooper) 23

On Moral Fiction (John Gardner) 114

Plainsong (Kent Haruf) 146

On the Road (Jack Kerouac) 49, 87, 101, 107

Plath, Sylvia 82-83, 85, 90

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Platitudes (Trey Ellis) 143

Region Not Home, A (James Alan McPherson) 145

Playing in the Dark (Toni Morrison) 115

Rembrandt’s Hat (Bernard Malamud) 104

Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov) 105

Reservations Blues (Sherman Alexie) 152

Poe, Edgar Allan 14, 22, 27, 32, 35, 36, 40-42, 113

Resurrection, The (John Gardner) 114

Poems 1957-1967 (James Dickey) 85

Rexroth, Kenneth 86, 87

“Poet, The” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 26, 31

Rhys, Jean 152

Poisonwood Bible, The (Barbara Kingsolver) 149

Rice, Anne 136

“Political Litany, A” (Philip Freneau) 20

Rich, Adrienne 81, 82, 85-86, 116

Poor Richard’s Almanack (Benjamin Franklin) 16

“Richard Cory” (Edwin Arlington Robinson) 57

“Poppies” (Mary Oliver) 131

Richards, Amy 137

Porter, Katherine Anne 97, 99-100, 103

Richman, Robert 96

Portnoy’s Complaint (Philip Roth) 110

Riesman, David 101

Portrait of a Lady, The (Henry James) 52

Right Here, Right Now (Trey Ellis) 143

Possessing the Secret Joy (Alice Walker) 116

Right Stuff, The (Tom Wolfe) 108

Pound, Ezra 60, 63, 65, 66, 67, 71, 89, 90

Rios, Alberto 91, 92, 124

Power (Linda Hogan) 148

“Rip Van Winkle” (Washington Irving) 22

Power Elite, The (C. Wright Mills) 101

Rise of Silas Lapham, The (William Dean Howells) 51

Powers, Richard 137, 146

Rituals of Survival (Nicholasa Mohr) 153

“Premature Burial, The” (Edgar Allan Poe) 41

“River of Bees, The” (W.S. Merwin) 122

Price, Reynolds 112

Road Home, The (Jim Harrison) 147

Price, The (Arthur Miller) 98

Road to Wellville, The (T. Coraghessan Boyle) 151

Pricksongs & Descants (Robert Coover) 108

Roan Stallion (Robinson Jeffers) 68

Princess Casamassima, The (Henry James) 52

Roberts, Nora 136

Problems (John Updike) 106

Robinson, Edwin Arlington 29, 57

Promise of Rest, The (Reynolds Price) 112

Robinson, Marilynne 151

Proulx, Annie 141

Rock Garden, The (Sam Shepard) 118

Public Burning, The (Robert Coover) 108, 112

Rock Springs (Richard Ford) 138

“Purloined Letter, The” (Edgar Allan Poe) 41

Rodriguez, Luis 151

Puttermesser Papers, The (Cynthia Ozick) 142

Rodriguez, Richard 151

Pynchon, Thomas 97, 105, 108-109, 110, 113, 138, 141, 146, 150

Roethke, Theodore 82, 84

Rogers, Pattiann 130

Quasha, George 95

Roger’s Version (John Updike) 106

“Roofwalker, The” (Adrienne Rich) 85

Rabbit, Run (John Updike) 106

Rose (Li-Young Lee) 127

Rabbit at Rest (John Updike) 106

Roth, Philip 101, 110-111, 116