Index
Acker, Kathy
Don Quixote, which was a Dream
Adams, Clive F.
Adams, Robert Martin
Addams, Jane
Adorno, Theodor
advertising
aesthetic experience, politics of
African Americans
detectives
stereotyped images
women workers
Agamben, Giorgio
The Age of the American Novel (Magny)
Agee, James
agrarianism
agriculture
Alonso, Carlos
America (United States)
nationalist fallacy
origin of immigrants
American Authors’ Authority
American Birth Control League
American Woman Suffrage Association
Amos “n” Andy
Anderson, Mary
Anderson, Maxwell
Anderson, Sherwood
Poor White
Winesburg, Ohio
Ansermet, Ernest
anti-Semitism
apartheid
Argentina
Aristotle
Armstrong, Louis
Asian-American literature
definition of
Aspiration
Astrue, Alexandre
Atlanta compromise
Atlantic Monthly
Auschwitz
Auster, Paul
New York Trilogy
Austin, Mary
The Land of Little Rain
Australia
author, relationship to reader
automobile industry
avant-garde movements
“baby boom”
Baker, Ella
Baker, Josephine
Barker, Elsa
Barnes, Djuna
Nightwood
Ryder
Barthes, Roland
Bartók, Bela
Baudelaire, Charles
Bauer, Marion
Baum, Vicky
Falling Star
Bazin, André
Beard, Charles
Beauvoir, Simone de
Bechet, Sidney
Becker, George J.
behaviorism
bebop
Bellamy, Edward
Ben Hur
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Benjamin, Walter
Bennett, Arnold
Benton, Thomas Hart
Bernard, Claude
Bernstein, Michael André
Bessie, Alvah
bestsellers
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Biberman, Herbert
Biggers, Earl Derr
The House without a Key
Bilbo, Theodore
birth control
Birth Control Review
Birth of a Nation, The (film)
“Black Cabinet”
Black Mask (magazine)
Black Metropolis (Drake and Cayton)
Blesh, Rudi
blues
Boas, Franz
Bold, Christine
Bontemps, Arna
Book-of-the-Month Club
Borges, Jorge Luis
“The Garden of Forking Paths”
“Boston marriage”
Bourdieu, Pierre
Bourne, Randolph
Bow, Clara
Bower, B. M.
Bowles, Jane
Two Serious Ladies
box office
Brand, Max
Hired Guns
Brazil
Brecht, Bertolt
Breton, André
Manifesto of Surrealism
Bretton Woods conference
British detective tradition
Broderick, Therese
Brokeback Mountain
Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar
Brown, Justice Henry Billings
Brush, Katherine
Redheaded Woman
Bulosan, Carlos
America is in the Heart
Burke, Kenneth
Burnett, W. R.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
The Girl from Hollywood
Cable, George Washington
Cahiers du Cinéma
Cain, James M.
American Authors’ Authority
Double Indemnity
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Calhoun, Arthur W.
Canada
Capra, Frank
Caribbean
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie Hall
Carpenter, Edward
Carr, John Dickson
Cash, W. J.
Cather, Willa
as lesbian author
A Lost Lady
maker of modernism
My Ántonia
Not Under Forty
O Pioneers!
The Professor’s House
Catholics
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Cayton, Horace R.
Cendrars, Blaise
Chandler, Raymond
The Big Sleep
The Little Sister
studio system
Chaplin, Charlie
Chesterton, G. K.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
The Conjoure Woman
Chicago
University of
Child, Lydia Maria
The American Frugal Housewife
childcare
children
welfare provision
Chopin, Kate
The Awakening
Christie, Agatha
Chu, Louis
Eat a Bowl of Tea
cinema see Hollywood
cities
Citizen Kane (film)
foreign colonies
Civil Rights movement
Civil War
Coen brothers
Barton Fink
Coindreau, Maurice-Edgar
Cole, Lester
Collins, Seward
Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA)
communists, in Hollywood
Condon, Eddie
Congressional Union
Conrad, Joseph
consumer credit
consumer debt
consumerism
consumption
Cooper, Gary
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cornell, Joseph
Cortor, Eldzier
cotton
Cotton Club
Coulter, Eliza
countervailing power
Cowley, Malcolm
Cox, Earnest Sevier
Crane, Stephen
contract with publisher
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
The Red Badge of Courage
The Crisis (magazine)
Cross, Amanda
Cuba
Cukor, George
Cullen, Countee
Cummings, E. E.
The Enormous Room
Cummins, Maria Susanna
The Lamplighter
Curtis, Emma Ghent
The Administratrix
Daly, Carroll John
Dances with Wolves
Dannay, Frederic (Ellery Queen)
Darrow, Clarence
Darwin, Charles
Dawes Act
De Forest, J. W.
Kate Beaumont
De Sica, Vittorio
Delaunay, Charles
Deleuze, Gilles
Democratic Party
Dennett, Mary Ware
Derrida, Jacques
detection
alternative
American feminist
postmodern
Dewey, John
Art as Experience
The Public and Its Problems
Dewson, Mary W.
Diana: A Strange Autobiography
dime novels
decline of
Disney, Walt
Dixon, Thomas
The Leopard’s Spots
Dmytryk, Edward
domestic service
Doolittle, Hilda
Dos Passos, John
and Hollywood
Manhattan Transfer
USA trilogy
Douglas, Aaron
Douglass, Frederick
Dove, Mourning
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Drake, St. Clair
Dreiser, Theodore
An American Tragedy
and Hollywood
Sister Carrie
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880
Dark Princess
The Souls of Black Folk
Du Maurier, George
Trilby
Duchamp, Marcel
Duhamel, Georges
Duhamel, Marcel
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
The Sport of the Gods
Dust Bowl
Eastman, Crystal
Eaton sisters
Eberhart, Mignon G.
Economy Act (1933)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Eliot, T. S.
Ellington, Duke
Ellis, Bret Easton
American Psycho
Ellis, Edward S.
Ellis, Havelock
Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
and jazz
Eminent Authors Inc.
Endo, Mitsuye
Engels, Friedrich
Entwistle, Peg
environmental degradation
equal pay
ethnic modernism
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Esquire
eugenics
Evans, Walker
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
existentialism
expressionism
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
faith
farming
farms
fascism
Faulkner, William
Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
and Hollywood
Knight’s Gambit
Light in August
Sanctuary
screenwriting
The Sound and the Fury
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
Federal Reserve
Federal Writer’s Project
feminism
feminists
Ferber, Edna
The Girls
Ferraro, Thomas J.
film
Fire!!
Fisher, Rudolph
The Conjure-Man Dies
Fisher, Steve
I Wake Up Screaming
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Beautiful and Damned
The Crack-Up
The Great Gatsby
and Hollywood
The Last Tycoon
literary agent
This Side of Paradise
Tender is the Night
Three Comrades (screenplay)
Fitzgerald, Zelda
flappers
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
Foote, Mary Hallock
The Led-Horse Claim
Ford, Charles Henry
The Young and Evil
Ford, Henry
Fordism
Forrest, Katherine V.
formalism
Foucault, Michel
Frank, Waldo
Our America
Frazier, E. Franklin
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman, R. Austin
Freud, Sigmund
Freudianism
Friedan, Betty
frugality
Fugitive-Agrarians
Fuller, Henry Blake
Bertram Cope’s Year
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Galsworthy, John
Gardner, Anne
Reputation
Gardner, Erle Stanley
“Perry Mason”
garment industry
Garvey, Marcus
Garveyism
Gass, William H.
Gelder, Ken
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
General Motors
George, Henry
Germany
GI Bill (Bill of Rights) (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)
Gilded Age
Gildersleeve, Virginia C.
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Girard, Mary Luce
Glissant, Edouard
Glyn, Elinor
It
Three Weeks
Goffin, Robert
Gogarty, Oliver
Gold, Mike
Goldman, Emma
Goldwyn, Samuel
Gompers, Samuel
Gone With the Wind
Goodman, Benny
Grafton, Sue
Graham, Carroll and Garrett
Queer People
Grant, Madison
Great American Novel
Great Depression
Great Migration
Greenwich Village
Greig, Maysie
Romance for Sale
Grey, Zane
Riders of the Purple Sage
The Vanishing American
Griffith, D. W.
grotesque domestic fiction
Guattari, Félix
Haiti
Hall, Radclyffe
The Well of Loneliness
Hammett, Dashiell
Red Harvest
hard-boiled detective fiction
Harlem Art Workshop
Harlem Renaissance
Harper’s Bazaar
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Harper’s Weekly
Harris, Joel Chandler
Harris, Thomas
The Silence of the Lambs
Harte, Bret
Gabriel Conway
Hawks, Howard
Haymarket Riot
Hecht, Ben
Hegeman, Susan
Heidegger, Martin
Hemingway, Ernest
Big Two Hearted River
“The Killers”
In Our Time
modernism and mass culture
open spaces
The Sun Also Rises
Heterodoxy
Higgins, George V.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
higher education
expansion of
for women
Highsmith, Patricia
The Price of Salt
Hill, Fanny Christina
Hill Street Blues
Hillerman, Tony
Himes, Chester
For Love of Immabelle
Hiroshima
Hitler, Adolf
Hollingworth, Leta
Hollywood
appetite for source material
business in
crime films
culture industry
serious fiction and
studio system
Hollywood novels
Hollywood Ten
Holocaust
Homer, Winslow
After the Hurricane
Gulf Stream
Hoover, Herbert
Hopkins, Pauline
Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
Horkheimer, Max
Hot Club de France
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
blacklist
Waldorf Statement
House of Representatives
housewives
Howard, Sidney
Howe, Marie Jenney
Howells, William Dean
A Hazard of New Fortunes
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Hughes, Langston
and jazz
Hughes, Rupert
Souls for Sale
Hugo, Victor
Hurst, Fanny
Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huston, John
Hutchinson, George
Huxley, Aldous
immigrants
cultural differences
women workers
immigration
after war
increase in
opposition to
restrictions on
indigenism
Industrial Labor Defense
industrialization
Institute for Jazz Studies
International Monetary Fund
internment camps
investment
Ireland
Irwin, Elisabeth
Irwin, Inez Haynes
Isherwood, Christopher
It’s a Wonderful Life
James, Henry
The Ambassadors
The American
The Bostonians
on George Eliot
The Golden Bowl
In The Cage
A Modern Instance
narrative ellipsis
The Portrait of a Lady
The Sacred Fount
The Wings of the Dove
What Maisie Knew
James, William
Principles of Psychology
Jameson, Fredric
jazz
and The Great Gatsby
audiences
Cold War weapon
comparisons with classical music
definitions
discographies
first appearance of word
racism and
suspicion and distrust
Jazz Age
Jefferson, Thomas
Jewett, Sarah Orne
A Country Doctor
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Deephaven
Jews
Jim Crow segregation
John Reed Clubs
Johnson County War
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Nunally
Johnson-Reed Act
Joyce, James
Kaiser, Henry
Kalaidjian, Walter
Kallen, Horace
Kaufmann, Helen
Kazin, Alfred
Kelley, Florence
Kelly, Florence Finch
Kellogg, Dr. J. H.
Kemelman, Harry
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirchwey, Freda
Klein, Melanie
Kofman, Sarah
Kogawa, Joy
Obasan
Krafft-Ebing, Richard
Kristeva, Julia
Ku Klux Klan
labor supply
Lambert, Constant
land prices
Lange, Dorothea
Langton, Jane
Lardner, Ring, Jr.
Larsen, Nella
Passing
Quicksand
Lawrence, Jacob
Lawson, John Howard
League of American Writers
League of Women Voters
Lee, Manfred B.
Leenhardt, Roger
Leonard, Elmore
The Hot Kid
Le Sueur, Meridel
Les Temps Modernes
lesbian literature, beginning of
Levinas, Emmanuel
Lewis, Sinclair
Main Street
Lewis, Wyndham
librarianship, women in
Lincoln, Abraham
Locke, Alain
on negro music
Lockhart, Caroline
London, Jack
Martin Eden
Long, Huey
Loos, Anita
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Lubou, Haynes
Reckless Hollywood
Lukács, György
Lumpkin, Grace
lynching
Macdonald, Ross
The Galton Case
MacFadyen, Byron
magazines
“little”
pulp
women’s
Magny, Claude-Edmonde
The Age of the American Novel
Malraux, André
March on Washington Movement
Marion, Frances
Minnie Flynn
marriage
Martí, José
Marx, Karl
Marxism
mass culture
mass publishing market
Mathews, John Joseph
Sundown
Wah’Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man’s Road
McBain, Ed
McCoy, Horace
I Should Have Stayed Home
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They
McCullers, Carson
The Member of the Wedding
McDougald, Elsie Johnson
McElrath, Frances
The Rustler: A Tale of Love and War in Wyoming
McEvoy, J. P.
Hollywood Girl
Showgirl
McGrath, Keane
Hollywood Siren
McKay, Claude
McNickle, Darcy
The Surrounded
Mein Kampf
Melville, Herman
The Confidence Man: His Masquerade
Mendl, Robert
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Merwin, Samuel
Hattie of Hollywood
metaphor
Metropolitan Opera House
Mexico
Meyer, Agnes
middle class
women
middling classes/regions
Midwestern Modernism
Migrant Mother, Peeling Potatoes
migration, Southern black
Miller, Frieda
Miller, Henry
minstrels
Mitchell, Margaret
money
new sensuality
Monroe, Marilyn
Mori, Toshio
Yokohama, California
Morrison, Arthur
Tales of Mean Streets
Morrow, Honoré Willsie
Mosley, Walter
Devil in a Blue Dress
mothers, working
mottainai
Muller, Marcia
Edwin of the Iron Shoes
multiculturalism
music
Mussel Slough battle
Nabokov, Vladimir
Nagasaki
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs
National Association of Settlements
National Child Labor Committee
National Consumers’ League (NCL)
National Council of Negro Women
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
National Recovery Act codes
National Recovery Administration
National Urban League (NUL)
National Woman’s Party (NWP)
National Women’s Trade Union League
nativism
naturalism
Nazism
The Negro Soldier (film)
Negro World (newspaper)
New Critics
New Deal
New Negro art
New Negro movement
New Woman, age of the
detective fiction
Westerns
New York
shirtwaist strike
Newman, Frances
Niles, Blair
Strange Brother
Norris, Frank
McTeague
The Octopus
The Pit
O’Connor, Flannery
Wise Blood
Office of War Information
O’Hara, Frank
O’Hara, John
Hope of Heaven
Okada, John
No-No Boy
Olsen, Tillie
“one drop” rule
Opportunity (magazine)
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Osgood, Henry
Ovington, Mary White
pacifism
Page, Thomas Nelson
Paisà
Paredes, Américo
George Washington Gómez
Panassié, Hugues
Hot Jazz: The Guide to Swing Music
Paretsky, Sara
Park, Robert E.
Parker, Dorothy
Parks, Rosa
Passing
Parsons, Elsie Clews
Paul, Alice
Pearl Harbor
Peeling Potatoes (painting)
Perkins, Frances
Perkins, Maxwell
phenomenology
Phillips, Wendell
Photoplay (magazine)
plantation colonialism
Piaget, Jean
The Language and Thought of the Child
Pizer, Donald
Plessy, Homer
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pollock, Jackson
potential and actualization
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Dawn
Come Back to Sorrento
pragmatism
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Preston, Jack
Screen Star
Prime-Stevenson, Edward
Imre: A Memorandum
Prohibition
proletarian novel
five categories of
protopostmodernism
public health
Public Works Administration
publishing houses
pulp magazines
Puzo, Mario
The Godfather
Pynchon, Thomas
The Crying of Lot
race riots
racial segregation
Randolph, A. Philip
Ransom, John Crowe
The World’s Body
realist novel
endings
regionalism
Reiss, Winhold
Richards, Ivor Armstrong
Richter, Hans
Riis, Jacob
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Robeson, Paul
Rogers St. Johns, Adele
The Skyrocket
Rolvaag, Ole
Giants in the Earth
roman policier
romantic friendship, tradition of
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Ross, Harold
Rossellini, Roberto
Said, Edward
Sanctuary
Sanger, Margaret
Santayana, George
Sargeant, Winthrop
Sartre, Jean-Paul
fan of Westerns
What is Literature
The Saturday Evening Post
Sayers, Dorothy
Schaefer, Jack
Shane
Schleifer, Ronald
Schneiderman, Rose
Schulberg, Budd
What Makes Sammy Run
Schuyler, George
Schwartz, Lawrence H.
Schwellenach, Sen. Lewis
Schwenger, Peter
science, naturalism and
Scott, Adrian
Scottsboro boys
Screen Actors Guild
Screen Writers Guild
screenwriting
freelance system
Selznick, David
sentimental activism
settlement work
sex and class
sharecroppers
Sharpe, Ella Freeman
Shaw, Anna Howard
Shaw, C. K.
Shaw, Captain Joseph T.
Sheppard–Towner Act
Sherwood, Robert
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Slade, Caroline
The Triumph of Willie Pond
slavery
Slotkin, Richard
Smith, Al
Smith, Henry Nash
social insurance
Social Security Act (1935)
social work
women in
Sollors, Werner
Sone, Monica
Nisei Daughter
Southern Syncopated Orchestra
Spaeth, Sigmund
Spanish-American War
speculation
Spencer, Herbert
Spillane, Mickey
I, the Jury
Springfield riot
Starr, Ellen Gates
Stegner, Wallace
Stein, Gertrude
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“Composition as Explanation”
How to Write
“Melanctha”
A Novel of Thank You
postmodernism
Q.E.D.
racial primitivism
Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Stephens, Anna Sophia
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
Stoddard, Charles Warren
For the Pleasure of His Company
Stoddard, Lothrop
Storey, Moorfield
Stout, Rex
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Straton, Dr. John Roach
strikes
Sturges, Preston
suburbs
Suckow, Ruth
suffrage movement
woman suffrage amendment
Sullivan, Francis William
The Glory Road
Swanson, H. N. “Swannie”
swing bands
Taft–Hartley Act
Talmadge, Gene
tariffs
Tate, Allen
Taussig, Michael
Taylor, Bayard
Joseph and His Friend
Taylor, Robert
teaching
women in
technology
television sets
temperance movement
Tennessee Valley Authority
Thalberg, Irving
theatre chains, control of
Thelma and Louise
They were very poor (painting)
Thomas, J. Parnell
Thompson, Jim
The Killer Inside Me
Thurman, Wallace
time
time and motion
Tollund Man
Toomer, Jean
Cane
Townsend, Edward
A Daughter of the Tenements
tractors
transatlantic axis
Treat, Lawrence V., V as in Victim
Triangle disaster
Trilling, Lionel
Trumbo, Dalton
Turner, Frederick Jackson
“safety valve”
Twain, Mark
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
perspectivism
pseudonym
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tyler, Parker
The Young and Evil
Ulrichs, Karl
unemployment
Unforgiven (film)
unions
screenwriters
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Urban League
urban migration
Valéry, Paul
Vallee, Rudy
Van Vechten, Carl
Nigger Heaven
Spider Boy
Vasconcelos, José
Veterans
Virginia Racial Integrity Act (1925)
visual artists, midwestern
voluntarism
wages
Wagner, Sen. Robert
Walcutt, Charles Child
Walkowitz, Rebecca
Wallace, Lew
Ben Hur
Walling, William English
Walrond, Eric
War Manpower Commission
Warhol, Andy
Warner, Jack
Warren, Robert Penn
Washington, Booker T.
Waters, Frank
Waugh, Evelyn
The Wave (magazine)
Welles, Orson
West, Nathanael
The Day of the Locust
Miss Lonelyhearts
Westerns
artistic status
development of
in other cultures
Progressive debate
readership
written by women
Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence
Ethan Frome
The House of Mirth
mass market writer
What Price Hollywood? (film)
White, Walter
The Fire in the Flint
Whiteman, Paul
Whitfield, Raoul
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Billy
Sunset Boulevard
Wilder, Thornton
Wilhelm, Gale
We Too Are Drifting
Williams, Bert
Wilson, Cherry
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Harry Leon
Merton of the Movies
Wilson, Woodrow
Winterson, Jeanette
Wirth, Louis
Wister, Owen
The Virginian
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
women
black middle class
careers
college enrollment
and public office
traditional roles
women workers
effect of war on
Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
women’s club movement
Women’s Peace Party
Women’s Trade Union League
Wood, Grant
Woodward, Ellen
Woolf, Virginia
“human character changed”
Woolrich, Cornell
World Bank
World War I
World War II
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Wright, Richard
Black Boy
misogyny
Native Son
on Gertrude Stein
Uncle Tom’s Children
White Man, Listen!
Wright, Willard Huntington (aka S. S. Van Dine)
Yezierska, Anzia
Arrogant Beggar
Bread Givers
Salome of the Tenements
Young, Stark
Zangwill, Israel
Zanuck, Darryl
Žižek, Slavoj
Zola, Émile