Index
Abraham, Kenneth: and legal/literary theory
Acosta, Oscar Zeta: The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Adams, Henry; and cruelty; Democracy: An American Novel; The Education of Henry Adams
Adams, John (US President): on equality: and Quakers
Adorno, Theodor W.; and the “culture industry”
advertising and advertisements: condition of cultural institutions in age of incorporation; fluidity of meaning and; medical imaging and
affect: jurisdiction and; and the racialized Other
African American literary studies: and nineteenth-century genealogies; and speculative realism
African Americans: and Asian Americans; Crummell and moral character; discipline through suffering (Crummell); Du Bois on; and early cinema; exclusion from history and personhood; legal issues; parallels with classical antiquity (Crummell); penal system and partial administration of law; settler states of feeling and; social standing; white interiority and
African diaspora: and Atlantic studies; see also African Americans
African Theatre
Agamben, Giorgio
Age of Anxiety, The (Auden)
Agrarians see Southern Agrarians
Aiiieeeee! (anthology: Chan et al.)
Aiken, George: version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Alcott, Louisa May
Algonquins
algorithms: computational linguistics
“alien moment, the” (posthumanism)
aliens; figure split between cyborgs and animals; and human evolution; and human species identity; and human unity; possession
Alpaugh, David
Alsop, Richard: The Charms of Fancy
Amazon (River): global environmentalism and
“American”: scope of term
American exceptionalism; see also Americas exceptionalism
American Indians see Native Americans
American Negro Academy
American poetry: alleged antipoetic culture and; and American literary studies; anthologies; avant-garde; H. Bloom on; histories; “how it travels”; linguistic recognition, mutual; “New Math of poetry” (Alpaugh); 1980s onward; nineteenth-century; Pearce on; publishing forecasts; reader motives; repressive hypothesis; runaway production; twentieth-century
“American Renaissance”
American Renaissance (Matthiessen)
American Revolution: Freneau and; propaganda
American Scene, The (H. James)
American Studies Association: International Initiative
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser)
Americas exceptionalism; Cabeza de Vaca’s self-mythologizing and
Anarchiad, The
androids
“animal moment, the” (posthumanism)
animal studies
animality studies
animals: biological otherness; boundaries/relations between humans and; see also posthumanism: “the animal moment”
antimodernism: Lears on
Anti-Rent Wars (N.Y.)
anxiety; and performance
Apess, William; “Eulogy on King Philip”
Appadurai, Arjun: on globalization
Appiah, Anthony
Apple Computer, Inc.
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle: on equity
Article of Confederation (US)
artificial intelligence
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
Asad, Talal
Asian American literary studies
Asian Americans: and African Americans; category; definition and terms of reference; electoral behavior; exclusionist currents and; identity; literature; non-literary texts; representation
Asimov, Isaac
Astor Place Riot (1849)
Atlantic (concept); see also Atlantic studies, “the new”
Atlantic Monthly
Atlantic separations, colonial: and American progress
Atlantic studies, “the new”; “fluidity” and multidisciplinarity
Atomic Age; The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon) and; energy and genocides (Friedan); science fiction and; social exclusions
Atomic Energy Commission
Attridge, Derek: on creativity
Atwood, Margaret: Oryx and Crake
Auden, W.H.: The Age of Anxiety; on ballet
aura, film and: Benjamin on
Austin, John Langshaw
Australia, aboriginal: and control of access to information
autism: literary treatment of
autobiographical theory: Charon and
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Johnson):
Avatar (motion picture: Cameron)
Awakening, The (Chopin)
“Away Down in Jamaica” (Sui Sin Far)
Bacon, Nathaniel: Bacon’s Rebellion (Va.)
Baker, Houston: “new Southern studies”
Balkin, Jack: “Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory”
Ball, Milner
ballet: Auden and
Banks, Joseph
Barker, James Nelson: The Indian Princess
Barlow, Joel
Barricelli, Jean-Pierre
Barthes, Roland: S/Z
“Bartleby the Scrivener” (Melville)
Barton, John
Baum, L. Frank: The Wizard of Oz
Beam, Dorri
Beat culture
Behn, Aphra: The Widow Ranter
Bell, Philip; as Cosmopolite
Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backward
Beloved (Morrison)
Bender, Thomas: Rethinking American History in a Global Age
Benito Cereno (Melville); James (C.L.R.) and; Twitter adaptation; violence and the law in
Benjamin, Walter; on cinema; “Critique of Violence”; and technology
Benson, Melanie: Disturbing Calculations
Bercovitch, Sacvan
Bereznitsky, Yan: and Twain
Berkeley, William
Bernays, Edward
Bernstein, Leonard
Bester, Alfred
Bettelheim, Bruno
Biassou, Jorge/Georges
Bible, the: same-sex pairs in
Bigelow, Jacob
Billy Budd (Melville); and law
Binet, Alfred: misuse of his intelligence test
biocentrism; McCarthy and
biocultural signification: in image-based narratives
biocultures
“Biocultures Manifesto” (L. Davis & D. Morris)
biological context of human life: ecology
biomedicine; global imperatives; related disciplines and; see also biocultures
biosphere: McCarthy on
biotechnology
biotextuality
bipolarism in American literary history
Bird, Robert Montgomery; Nick of the Woods
black Americans see African Americans
“black Atlantic” history: counterculture of modernity
Black Jack Davy (Oskison)
Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James); multiplicity and revisions
black laborers at white theatres
black magic: in “Away Down in Jamaica” (Sui Sin Far)
Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon)
blackface characters
Blade Runner (motion picture: R. Scott)
Blanc-Bentzon, Thérèse
Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne)
Block Island
blogs
Bloom, Harold
body, human: Crummell on soul and; norms of understanding shaped by medical visual culture
Body Snatchers, The (Finney)
Bogost, Ian
Bolter, Jay David
Bone, Martin: on Southern Agrarians
Bongie, Chris
Bonnin, Gertrude see Zitkala-Ša
Book of Mormon, The
“border thinking” (Mignolo)
Borges, Jorge Luis: on Twain
Boston Fruit Company; see also United Fruit Company
boundaries, genetic and cognitive: animals and humans
Bourdieu, Pierre
Bourne, Randolph: “Trans-National America”
Boyer, Allen
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry: Modern Chivalry
Brackman, Harold
brainwashing; Friedan, gender roles and
Brandeis, Justice Louis
Braudel, Fernand: and spatialized histories
Breeze, Mary-Anne
Bricks Without Straw (Tourgée)
Brinkmeyer, Robert: on the US South
Britain see United Kingdom
Brook Farm commune (Mass.)
Brooks, Cleanth
Brooks, Shirley: The Creole
Brooks, Van Wyck
Brophy, Alfred L.
Brown, Bill: on Crane
Brown, Charles Brockden: Wieland, or, The Transformation
Brown, William Wells: Clotel
Bryant, William Cullen; “The Prairies”
Budd, Louis J.: on Twain
Bug-Jargal (Hugo)
Burgett, Bruce
Burke, Kenneth
Burroughs, William
Bush, Vannevar: “As We May Think”
Bushman, Jay
Butler, Judith: Gender Trouble
Butler, Octavia: Xenogenesis trilogy
Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez; role as merchant; unacknowledged complicity with conquerors; see also Relación (Cabeza de Vaca)
Cable, George Washington
Call, The (newspaper): offices attacked, 1919
Cambridge, University of: Crummell and
Cambridge History of American Literature, The
Cameron, James: Avatar; Terminator
Campbell, Alexander: on The Book of Mormon
Campbell, George
Campbell, John: Who Goes There
Cannibals All! (Fitzhugh)
canon, literary
Capgras syndrome
capitalism: as cannibalism; and economic privatization of culture; eugenics and; and fragmentation of knowledge and critique; multiculturalism and; and technology
Cárdenas, Lazar
Cardozo, Justice Benjamin: law and literature
Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature (journal)
Caribbean: and US literary relations
Carlyle, Thomas: Emerson and
Carmichael, Gershom
Carmichael, Stokely
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger)
Cather, Willa: My Antónia
Cavitch, Max
censorship
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (University of Nebraska)
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung; Dictée
chaos theory
Charlotte Temple (Rowson)
Charms of Fancy, The (Alsop)
Charon, Rita
Chase, Richard; on Billy Budd (Melville)
Cherokee Nation: history in literature
Cherokee Night, The (Riggs)
Cherokee Outlet: ceded to US, 1893
Chesnutt, Charles W.: The Marrow of Tradition
Chiang, Mark; The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
Chicago World Trade Fair, 1893
Chicano Moratorium, 1970
Chickamauga: in The Year of Pilár (Riggs)
Child, Francis James
Child, Lydia Maria
Childhood’s End (Clarke)
children: and conditions of slavery; trope for ongoing history of settler occupation; and women’s economic status
Chimera, The (Marriott)
China: in American poetry; US relations with
China Men (Kingston)
Chinese Americans; and Afro-Caribbeans
Chinese Exclusion Acts (US)
Choate, Rufus; Melville on
Choctaw Nation
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening; “Elizabeth Stock’s One Story”; women and the US legal system
Christ: Smith (J.McC.), African Americans and
Christen, Kimberly
Christie, Ned
Cicero: Choate and
cinema: early; immigrants and; and perception; Wharton and
citizen feeling: and disavowal of Native sovereignty
citizenship: democracy and; and individualism; and territorial limits (US); see also democracy
civil rights, struggle for (US); as memory or history
Civil Rights Act, 1875 (US)
Civil War, American: Longfellow and; and the stage; Valley of the Shadow (digital) project
Clarke, Arthur C.; Childhood’s End
class: Blithedale (Hawthorne) and; conflict in The Rise of Silas Lapham (Howells); democratic equalization ousted by; discourse; downward mobility; and gender; instability in definitions of; middle-class anxiety; middle ground; narrative unsettled by; Pynchon and changing conceptions of; social bankruptcy in May Day (Fitzgerald); underclass; US capitalism as class system; urban crowd as; vacuum at social centre; see also inequality, social; insecurity, social; middle ground, social; naturalism; systems
Cleaver, Eldridge
Clemens, Samuel L. see Twain, Mark
Clement, Tanya
Cliff, Michelle: Free Enterprise
Clifford, James: “discrepant cosmopolitanism”
climate change: reaction to
Clinton, Bill
cloning, animal
close-up, cinematic
Clotel (W.W. Brown)
code, electronic; and archives; individual codes; OAAP; and social media
Coetzee, J.M.
Cold War: and critical orientation; displacement of Asian populations; and historicizing concept of Asian American literature
colonialism: links of color to
coloniality, condition of: in Hawthorne
“color, worlds of” (Dubois); and the body; and colonization
Common Sense (Paine)
communications industry (US): capitalist incorporation and
communications technology: revolution in
Communipaw (i.e. J.McC. Smith)
Communism: and brainwashing; in fiction; and information
community identities: colonial encounter and
Companion to Digital Humanities, A (Unsworth, Siemens & Schreibman)
comparativity: ecology and; text-networks and
complicity, social; in Caribbean-American fiction; hospitality and
computational linguistics
computers: access to; imaginative (literary) origin of personal computer; “noise”; technologies; see also under headings beginning digital . . . ; electronic . . . ; see also Internet, the; medical imaging
Condon, Richard: The Manchurian Candidate
Conker’s Bad Fur Day (video game)
“Connecticut Wits”
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain)
Connery, Christopher
constative utterances
Constituting Americans (Wald)
Constitution (US): “Regulators” of constitutional process; and unofficial democracy
Constitutional Convention, 1787 (US)
consumer culture
Continental Congress (US): Ad Hoc Committee on Spies
contingency; literature and
Cook, James
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth
coolies; historicizing concept of Asian American literature
Cooney, Chris
Cooper, James Fenimore; The Pioneers
copyright; in Google Books
corporate interests: and digital humanities; and disintegration of public literary sphere
corporate power: and industrialized government (US Gilded Age)
cosmopolitanism: African Americans and; “rooted” (Appiah) and “discrepant” (Clifford)
Cosmopolite (i.e. P. Bell)
Cott, Nancy: The Bonds of Womanhood
Cover, Robert: and legal/literary theory
Craige, Betty Jean
Crane, Gregg: and legal/literary studies
Crane, Stephen; Maggie; Red Badge of Courage
creative writing programs
Creole nationality: interaction with difference and
Creole regeneration/degeneration: in “The Foreigner” (Jewett)
Critical Race Studies
Crossing, The (C. McCarthy); biocentrism; Spanish-English dialectic
Croxall, Brian
Crucible, The (A. Miller)
Crummell, Alexander; “The Attitude of the American Mind toward the Negro Intellect”; biography; “The Destined Superiority of the Negro”; and Du Bois; “The Negro as a Conservative Source of Power”; and Washington
Crying of Lot 49, The (Pynchon)
Cuba: in revision of Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James); slavery in, Sophia Peabody and
cultural exchanges, system of: in Atlantic studies
cultural nationalism: Smith (J.McC.) and
cultural studies; Asian American
cummings, e.e.
Cummins, Maria: The Lamplighter
Cunha, Euclides da; Á marjem da historia; Os Sertões
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The (Haddon)
cybernetics
cyberpunk
cyberspace; imagination in
“cyborg moment, the” (posthumanism)
cyborgs; technological superiority
Daly, Augustin: Under the Gaslight
Daniels, Lee: Precious
Darwin, Charles
data mining; and new questions
databases: genre or social acts; see also names of individual databases, e.g. Digital Evans; Women Writers Project
Dath, Dietmar: Die Abschaffung der Arten (The Decommissioning of Species)
Davidson, Cathy
Davis, Lennard
Davis, Rebecca Harding: Life in the Iron-Mills; Waiting for the Verdict
De la grammatologie (Derrida)
Dean, James
death: basis of authentic order; uncertainty and hope
death penalty: law and violence
Declaration of Independence (US)
Decommissioning of Species, The (Dath)
deconstruction
defamiliarization
dehumanization: in The Crucible (A. Miller); Friedan, Bettelheim and; identity issues and; in No-No Boy (Okada); and the unconscious
delegated participation: US Constitution
Deleuze, Gilles
DeLillo, Don
DeLombard, Jeannine
democracy, American: capitalism developed at expense of; conflict in; as disagreement (in R.H. Davis); early US literature (to 1880) and; equalitarian phase; exclusions; frontier democracy; interpersonal democracy (in A. Dickinson); original ideal; reciprocity; and social standing; unofficial
Democracy: An American Novel (H. Adams)
Denning, Michael
depression, economic: and American modernity
Derrida, Jacques: on the animal question; on “Bartleby” (Melville); on Benjamin; on hospitality; performative-constative opposition and deconstruction; sous rature in De la grammatologie
deterritorialization
Diaz, Porfirio
Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep; Martian Time-Slip; Ubik
Dickinson, Anna
Dickinson, Emily; in digital archives; law and literature
Dietrich, Craig
difference, interaction with: in The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
difference from without: and intercultural unconscious in early American texts
Digital Evans (database)
digital humanities; and archives; first common usage of term; four domains; literary production; political dimension (see also research funding); as reflexive practice
digital technologies/media; and American poetry; literature departments and; and posthumanism
Dimock, Wai Chee
Disability studies: and American literature
disabled narrative
disciplinary imperialism
disorientation, aesthetic principle of; in Adams (H.); in James (H.); in Zitkala-Ša
“distant reading” (Moretti)
Dixon, Thomas: A Man of the People
Dr. Strangelove (motion picture: Kubrick)
Doctorow, E.L.: Ragtime
dog imagery: in Melville and Hugo
Dolly (sheep)
Dore, Frances: The Novel and the Obscene
Dorr, Thomas Wilson: Dorr’s Rebellion (R.I.)
Dos Passos, John: U.S.A. trilogy
Douglass, Frederick
Dow Baker, Lorenzo
Downes, Olin
Downing, Ted
drama: as teaching tool in early US; see also theatre
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (Stowe): the law in
Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie; Trilling on
Dryden, Edgar
Du Bois, W.E.B.; antimodernism; “The Conservation of Races”; “The Talented Tenth”
Duchamp, Marcel: Nude Descending a Staircase
Dulles, John Foster
Dunbar, Paul Laurence: Sport of the Gods
Early English Books Online (database)
Eaton, Edith see Sui Sin Far
Ebonics; parodied in Erasure (Everett)
Echo Maker, The (Powers)
ecology: tension with national ambition
ecosystem; literature analogous to; river as; successive views of
Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams)
electronic literary compositions
Ellison, Ralph; Invisible Man; postmodern reference in Erasure (Everett)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; “Address Delivered before the Senior Class” (at Harvard Divinity School); antislavery; genealogy of influence; Hafiz and; and political individualism; and poverty in practice; race and law; Rahv and; “Self-Reliance”; and social complicity; and technology; Transcendentalism
empire: and capital; interdependency with colonies
Empire (Hardt & Negri)
empiricism, colonial: and interdependence of humanity and natural world
End of History, The (Fukuyama)
end-of-world scenarios
Endicott, John
Engel, Eduard: on Twain
Engels, Friedrich: and technology
English: as international language
Enlightenment: Scottish; US heritage and
entropy: in The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon)
equality: Adams on; and early US democracy
Equiano, Olaudah
equity
Erasure (Everett); postmodernism parodied in; and “post-postmodernism”; race and racism caricatured/parodied in
Erdrich, Louise: Love Medicine
Erie, Steven
Ethiop (i.e. W.J. Wilson)
ethnicity: transnationalization of
eugenics
“Eulogy on King Philip” (Apess)
Evangeline (Longfellow)
Evans, Augusta
Everett, Percival; Erasure
evolution, human: aliens and; “evolutionary synthesis”; genetic engineering and; science fiction and; see also posthumanism, concept of
exclusion, terms of, in Anglo-American narrative histories; see also inclusive exclusion
expansionism, US: and Seacole
experience, sensory; combining of analytic thought and
Facebook; and public heath awareness
“Fall of the House of Usher, The” (Poe)
family, nuclear: incest and; the unconscious, desires and pathologies in
family arrangements, idealized European: and meaning of colonial family
Fanon, Frantz
fascism: US Southern writers and
Faulkner, William; Absalom, Absalom!; and alternative sexualities; As I Lay Dying; despair at Southern social conditions; the law and violence; and reintegration of South into US cultural mainstream; The Sound and the Fury
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)
Fenellosa, Ernest
Ferguson, Adam
Ferguson, Robert: Law and Letters in American Culture
Fern, Fanny
fetal sonogram: wider cultural significance
Fichtelberg, Joseph
Field Code, 1848 (N.Y.)
Fields, Annie
Fields, Richard
film see cinema
finance capital: and communications technology
Finney, Jack: The Body Snatchers
Fish, Stanley: and legal/literary theory
Fitch, Clyde
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby; May Day
Fitzhugh, George: Cannibals All!
flash technology
Fletcher, Andrew: quoted by Choate
Fliegelman, Jay: revisionist interpretation of US Declaration of Independence
Foerster, Norman
“Foreigner, The” (Jewett)
Foucault, Michel; and “biopower”; and law; and alliance or sexuality
France: a “code” and sexual understanding in
Franklin, Benjamin: and American capitalism; technology of the self
Franklin, H. Bruce
Franko, Mark: and performance studies
Frederic, Harold: The Copperhead
Frederick Douglass’ Paper; see also Communipaw (i.e. J.McC. Smith); Cosmopolite (i.e. P. Bell); Ethiop (i.e. W.J. Wilson)
Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Freneau, Philip: and form; and propaganda; subject-matter of poetry; tensions between poetry and prose
Freud, Sigmund
Friedan, Betty
Frost, Robert
Fugitive Slave Law (US); Emerson and
Fukuyama, Francis: The End of History
Gaddis, William: legal/literary treatment
Gall’s Daily News Letter: Sui Sin Far and
Galton, Francis
Garrett, Matthew
Garrison, William Lloyd
Gates Ajar, The (Phelps)
Gauthier-Villars, Henry: and Twain
gays: and US legal system; see also sexuality
Geismar, Maxwell: on Twain
gender: capitalism and class; and scope of present volume; see also women
Gender Trouble (J. Butler)
Generation of Vipers, A (Wylie)
George, Peter: Red Alert
German language: Twain on
gesture; in performance studies
Gesture Life, A (C.-R. Lee)
gene: as information; level of, and whole populations
genealogy: religious significance
genetic engineering: and human evolution
genome, human
geochron visualizations
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Gibson, William; Neuromancer
Gilded Age (US)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: Herland; Women and Economics; “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Ginsberg, Allen: Howl
Girty, Simon: invoked in Nick of the Woods (Bird)
GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
Glasgow, University of: J.McC. Smith and
Glaspell, Susan: “A Jury of Her Peers”; The Verge
Glazier, Loss Pequeño; poetry on themes of digital processes
global consciousness: aliens and
globalization; contradictions; critical perspective on earlier literature; darker sides; and defensive mentality; exceptionalism and; from above and from below; interruption in early-mid-20th century US; and local; and need for reconsideration of US South; in recent American fiction; tension with local
Gmail
Goddard, H.H.
Goffman, Erving
Gogol, Nikolai
Goldberg, David Theo
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis: Sab
Gonzales, Laurence: Lucy
Goodman, Nan
Google; Google Books; Google Earth; research grants program
Grady, Henry
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)
graphic novel
Great Apes (Self)
Great Britain see United Kingdom
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald); and law of high finance
Grimké, Sarah: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
Grimsted, David: American Mobbing, 1828-1861
Griswold, Rufus: The Prose Writers of America
grotesque, the: US Southern literature
Gun, with Occasional Music (Lethem)
Gustafson, Sandra: “The Emerging Media of Early America”
Habermas, Jürgen: and public discourse
Hacking, Ian: “Making Up People”
Haddon, Mark; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Haiti; in Benito Cereno (Melville); in Bug-Jargal (Hugo); James (C.L.R.) and; Smith (J.McC.) on
Hall, Stuart
Hamilton, Alexander: Report on Manufactures
Hansen, Miriam: on early cinema
Haraway, Donna; “Manifesto for Cyborgs”
Hardt, Michael
Hariot, Thomas
Harper, Frances: Iola Leroy
HarpWeek (website)
Harris, Bird
“Hartford Wits”
HASTAC (Humanities Arts and Sciences Advanced Collaboratory)
Hawaii: in literature
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Blithedale Romance; “The Custom-House”; The House of the Seven Gables; involvement of family economy with slave trade; “The Minister’s Black Veil”; The Scarlet Letter; and slavery; and totalizing systems; The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair
Hayles, Katherine
Hazard of New Fortunes, A (Howells)
healthcare crisis: biomedicine and
Heidegger, Martin: sous rature defined by; Stoss (concept); and technology
hemispheric (term)
hemispheric comparative studies: and colonial studies; and diversity; and southern studies; and text-networks
hemispheric exceptionalism: in colonial studies; US claims to: Caribbean irony; and digital humanities
Herland (Gilman)
“Heroic Slave, The” (Douglass)
Herring, Scott: Queering the Underworld
Hersey, John: Hiroshima
“heteronormativity”: historical anomaly
Hewlett, James
Hiawatha (Longfellow)
Hidden Hand, The (Southworth)
Hillard, George
Hiroshima; Cold War and Asian American literature
Hiroshima (Hersey)
Hispanic encounters: alternative source for American culture
Hispanic influence on 19th-century American literature
historically constructed nature of American literary study
historicist turn in American literature
History of the United States during the Administrations of Washington and Jefferson (H. Adams)
Hobbes, Thomas
Hobson, Fred
Hollander, John
Holmes, John Clellon
Homestead Act (1864) (US)
homo-/heterosexual definition: anachronism; crisis of; Jewett, Fields and; origins of homosexual as type
hope: death, uncertainty and
Hopkins, Lemuel
Hopkins, Pauline: Of One Blood
Horkheimer, Max: and the “culture industry”
hospitality: American/Caribbean, described by Seacole; in regional studies; and social critique; in Walrond
House Committee on Un-American Activities
House of Mirth, The (Wharton)
House of the Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne); encapsulation of Southern slave economy in; versions of ancestral guilt in
Howard, Bronson: Shenandoah
Howe, Julia Ward
Howells, William Dean: A Hazard of New Fortunes; and incorporation; and mass media; on mass taste; The Rise of Silas Lapham; theories of realism; on Twain
Howl (Ginsberg)
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
Huang, Yunte: Transpacific Displacements
Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of (Twain): race and civil rights
Hughes, Langston; and alternative source for American culture
Hugo, Victor: Bug-Jargal
human being; displaced persons and; family, nation and color; Freud and; instability and political implications; loss imagined in The Manchurian Candidate (Condon); reconceptualization; see also dehumanization; humans
human genome
human rights, concept of
humanism: reinvoked in posthumanist novels
“humanities, crisis in the”
“Humanities 2.0” (Davidson)
Humanities Arts and Sciences Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC)
humans: and “companion species” (Haraway); divergent future species evolving from (Sterling); relations with animals; species identity; see also human being
Humboldt, Alexander von
Humphreys, David
Hunter, Edward
hunting: wildness, settler selfhood and
Hurston, Zora Neale; Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hutchinson, Thomas
hyperlinks: and traditional narrative
hypertext
IATH (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities)
idealism, Platonic
identity: community, and colonial encounter; Goffman on; historical fluidity
identity politics
ideology critique
imaging, medical see medical imaging
Imagism
imitation, cultural: Crummell, African Americans and; Smith (J.McC.), Tennyson and
immigration and immigrants: anxieties and racism; and cinema; Crummell, African American destiny and; damaged refugee migrants; Immigration Act, 1924 (US); queer displacement effects; storytelling; and US body politic
imperialism: deterritorializing apparatus of rule; see also expansionism, US
In the Cage (H. James)
Inada, Lawson Fusao
incest
incorporation, age of: and literary culture
Incorporation of America, The (Trachtenberg)
Indian Princess, The (Barker)
Indians, American see Native Americans
indigenous heritage: Australia; see also Native Americans
individual: and mislocating the social; separation from communal by geopolitical affect
industrial expansion: post-bellum US
inequality, social: in American literature
influence: genealogy of; nature of; and transatlantic literary studies
information systems: and reconceptualization of human being
inheritance: law and literature of
innocence: as disavowal
insecurity, social: effect on narrative and plot; middle-class
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
institutionality and democracy: and the settler state
Instituto Mora (Mexico)
intellectual disability: narrative and; textualization
intellectual property
interactive forms (electronic literature)
interconnectivity: and mutual reconfiguration; see also Internet, the
intercultural unconscious: and American historical diversity
interiority: and bureaucratic structures; and geopolitics of US nationality; Native Americans and (Thoreau); relegation of the social
Internet, the; access to; basis for communication; loss of net neutrality; medical imaging and; Web 2.0 and; see also Facebook; Google; hyperlinks; social media; World Wide Web; YouTube
Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutical Reader (ed. Mailloux & Levinson)
intersubjective interactions: the self and, in American literary history
Invisible Man (Ellison)
Iola Leroy (Harper)
Irving, Washington: Rip Van Winkle; Smith (J.McC.) and
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Shelley
Jamaica: Sui Sin Far and; nineteenth-century economic mobility described by Seacole; United Fruit Company and; US tourist industry and
James, C.L.R.: Black Jacobins; on Moby-Dick (Melville); Pease on; and Walrond
James, Henry; The American Scene; and constitutional right to privacy; and forces of publicity; In the Cage; Jewett and; and media society; Rahv on; sentences; Trilling and; women in
Jameson, Fredric: historicism; on literary form; on science fiction; “symptomal” reading; on systems
Japanese and Japanese Americans: US government in World War II
jazz
Jefferson, Joseph III
Jefferson, Thomas: classicism and liberty; and democracy; “ocean of fire” isolationism; and public happiness; and race
Jen, Gish: Mona in the Promised Land
Jensen, Johannes V.
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Jews: theories of early peopling of the Americas
Jim Crow
John the Baptist: in Du Bois, “The Talented Tenth”
Johnson, James Weldon: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Journal of Transnational American Studies
“Journey into the Mind of Watts, A” (Pynchon)
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Joyce, Michael
jurisdiction: affect and official nationality
jurisdictional imaginary: existence of US and
“Jury of Her Peers, A” (Glaspell)
justice, nature of: in legal/literary studies
Kac, Eduardo
Kadir, Djelal
Kafka, Franz
Kant, Immanuel
Kaplan, Amy: on Twain
Kaufmann, Michael: on secularization narrative
Kelleher, Paul
Kent, James
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road
keyword searching
Kim, Elaine: Asian American Literature
Kim, Jodi: Ends of Empire
Kim, Myung Mi
King, Anthony
King James Bible: The Book of Mormon and
Kingston, Maxine Hong; China Men; The Woman Warrior
Kirkland, Caroline: A New Home. Who’ll Follow
Kirschenbaum, Matthew: on digital humanities
Kittredge, George Lyman
Kleist, Heinrich von: Michael Kohlhaus
Koppelman, Susan
Korean Americans; see also names of individuals, e.g. Kim, Jodi; Lee, Chang-Rae
Korean War, 1950–1953: Cold War and Asian American literature
Korobkin, Laura
Kracauer, Siegfried: on cinema
Kreyling, Michael: Inventing Southern Literature
Ku Klux Klan
Kubrick, Stanley: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Dr. Strangelove
Künstlerromans: Asian American writers
Lacroix, Joseph-François-Pamphile de: Mémoires pour Servir à l’Histoire de la Révolution de Saint-Domingue
Lahiri, Jhumpa: The Namesake; Unaccustomed Earth
Lamming, George: “Ishmael at Home”
Lamplighter, The (Cummins)
Landow, George P.
Lao She: and Twain
law: American literature and; cultural context of lawmaking; cultural narratives; hard cases; and justice; principled resistance to; see also headings beginning legal . . .
Law & Literature (journal)
Law, Culture, and the Humanities (journal)
Lawrence, D.H.: Americanist criticism of; on Franklin
Lears, T.J. Jackson: No Place of Grace
Lee, Chang-Rae
Lee, Vernon
legal education (US); theory
legal history: literary studies and
legal ideology: literature and
“Leigh, Stagg R: My Pafology” (in Erasure: Everett)
Lethem, Jonathan: Gun, with Occasional Music
Levinson, Sanford
Lewis, Bradley
Liberia: Crummell and
libraries: and digitization
Library of Congress (US): digital archives
Lien, Pei-te
Life in the Iron-Mills (R.H. Davis)
Lincoln, Abraham: “reverence for the laws”
literalization: as literary brinksmanship
literary imagination: response to sustaining ecosystems
literary mode: as queer; and sexual subjectivity
literature (category): non-standard spatiotemporal nature of; wider/looser definition under corporate capitalism
Lofton, Ramona see Sapphire
London, Ephraim: law and literature
London, Jack
Long Day’s Journey into Night (E. O’Neill)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
longue durée (Braudel)
Looking Backward (Bellamy)
Lowe, Lisa; Immigrant Acts
Lowell Offering, The (periodical)
Löwy, Michael
Lucy (Gonzales)
Lukács, Georg
lynching
Macaria (A. Evans)
McCarthy, Cormac; The Crossing
McCarthy, Joseph
McGann, Jerome
McGill, Meredith
McGurl, Mark
McHale, Brian
machines: and humans (posthumanism)
McNickle, D’Arcy: Runner in the Sun; They Came Here First
Maddox, Lucy: Removals
Madison, James
madness: and appropriateness of narrative; Howl (Ginsberg) and
Maggie (S. Crane)
Mailloux, Steven
Making of America (website)
Making of Americans, The (Stein): computational linguistics and
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (S. Wilson)
Manchurian Candidate, The (Condon)
“Manifesto for Cyborgs” (Haraway)
Manovitch, Lev: on cultural forms
Margolis, Stacey
marriage: as question of property; women in nineteenth-century US
Marriott, Sarah: The Chimera
Marrow of Tradition, The (Chesnutt)
Marshall, John
“Martha’s Lady” (Jewett); Koppelman on; moral history of US and; revisions; transnational framing
Martí, José; and Twain
Martian Time-Slip (Dick)
Marx, Karl: and technology
Marxism: critical analysis and the novel
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
mass culture: cinema as key part of; communications industry; consumption privileged over labor; corporate interests and; in The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon); decentralising tendency; and disorientation; erosion of lived experience; ethnic minorities in; gender and class formation; genres, literary writers and; journalism in excluded communities; mass taste and; new media and alternative mass publics; niche publics; “postliterary” experimentation; response of literary authorities to; sensory experience in; unfixing of cultural meaning; women in; “world of dialects” (Vattimo); see also incorporation, age of: and literary culture; mass media; media and mediation
Mass Effect 2 (video game)
mass media; in Crane (S.); see also mass culture
Mather, Cotton
Matrix trilogy (motion pictures: Wachowski brothers)
Mathews, Charles
Mathews, John Joseph
Matthiessen, F.O.; American Renaissance; on Jewett
Maxwell, James Clerk: in The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon)
May Day (Fitzgerald)
May Day Manifesto (Williams, Thompson & Hall)
Mayans: in The Year of Pilár (Riggs)
media and mediation: experience of; media vertigo
medical humanities; see also biocultures; biomedicine; narrative medicine
medical imaging; and humanistic interpretation of image and narrative
medicine: visual culture; see also biocultures; biomedicine; medical imaging; narrative medicine
Meerloo, Joost: The Rape of the Mind
melancholia, racial
Mellon Foundation
melodrama
Melville, Herman; “Bartleby the Scrivener”; Benito Cereno; Billy Budd; and capitalism as cannibalism; and the “creative”; in digital archives; ideology in criticism of; James (C.L.R.) and; and law; madness and modernity in; Mardi; mid-twentieth-century critical controversy; minstrel shows in; Moby-Dick; Pierre; poverty in; queer content; Rahv and; and social complicity; and subject-matter; and the theatrical; White-Jacket; on women and factory work
Memento (motion picture: Nolan)
Mencken, H.L.; The American Language
Mercy Libraries (University of Detroit): digital archives
Metal Gear Solid (video game)
Metalious, Grace: Peyton Place
Metamora, or Last of the Wampanoags (Stone)
Mexico: Cherokee Nation and; in Cherokee literature
Michaels, Walter Benn: on difference; and legal/literary theory
Middle of the Journey, The (Trilling)
Mignolo, Walter
Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
Miller, Perry: The Legal Mind in America from Independence to the Civil War
Millet, Lydia: How the Dead Dream
Milton, George Ford: Abraham Lincoln and the Fifth Column
mimetic impulse: Cunha and the Purus River; literary to scientific
“Minister’s Black Veil, The” (Hawthorne)
minstrel shows; slavery as popular entertainment
miscegenation: and Atlantic historical relations; Mukherjee’s revision of Hawthorne; New World disavowal of; women, male desires and
Moby-Dick (Melville); James (C.L.R.) and; theatrical values
Modern Chivalry (Brackenridge)
Modern Language Association of America: American Literature section; 2009 Conference
modernism; African American; Imagism and; and neurotypical narrative; postmodernist rejection; and received fantasies of nation in US South
Moloch (Semitic deity): Ginsberg and the system
“momism” (Wylie: A Generation of Vipers)
Mona in the Promised Land (Jen)
Monette, Paul
MONK Project
monolingualism: US national policy
Moon, Elizabeth; The Speed of Dark
Moon, Michael: Disseminating Whitman
Moore, Marianne
Moorhead, Scipio
Moretti, Franco
Morris, David
Morrison, Toni: Beloved; A Mercy
Moses, Wilson Julius
Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (E. Newton)
motion: new media composition and
motley (term)
Mukherjee, Bharati: The Holder of the World
Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive
multiculturalism: and larger American narrative
multidimensional protagonist: Erasure (Everett)
multimedia: phenomenon of literature; transformation of textual into
Mumford, Lewis
Murdock, George
Murrell, John
“My Pafology (Stagg R. Leigh)” (in Erasure: Everett)
MySpace
Nabers, Deak
nadir (African American civil rights)
Nagasaki
Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
Namesake, The (Lahiri)
narrative: character knowledge of; and legal norms; levels of; madness and appropriateness of; neurotypical
narrative closure: medical imaging and
narrative irony
narrative medicine
Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (Charon)
Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, A (Seaver)
Narváez, Pánfilo de
nation, the: and citizenship, at Native expense; and scope of present volume; see also interiority; nationality, jurisdictional; New Americanism; tribal nations literature
nation-state, concept of
national boundaries: natural sciences and; policing of; political and cultural
National Endowment for the Humanities (US)
national narratives: and universal values
National Reformers
nationalism: objectives compromised by ecology of rivers; Smith (J.McC.) and cultural nationalism
nationality, jurisdictional; and relegation of indigenity
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 1990 (US)
Native Americans: American diversity located in; The Book of Mormon and; capitalism as cannibalism and; digital study of; education policies; eruption of violent past into Federal future; Hariot on; historical legacy; The Indian Princess (Barker) and; Jackson and; legal history; Mukherjee’s vision of accommodation with; as the Other; in Relación (Cabeza de Vaca); in The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne); and settler colonialism; Southern expansion and; Thoreau and interiority; see also tribal nations literature
Native Speaker (C.-R. Lee)
natural science: and crisis of epistemology; history of discipline; and national boundaries; positivism
natural selection
naturalism; and capitalism; in drama; plot of decline
Nazism: US racism and (Carmichael)
necrocitizenship
Negri, Antonio
Nelson, Cary: Repression and Recovery
Nelson, Dana: “new Southern studies”
Nelson, Deborah
Netherland (Joseph O’Neill)
Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES)
networks of exchange, colonial
networks of texts see text-networks
neural locations
neurasthenia
Neuromancer (Gibson)
New Americanists
New Criticism
New England: Hawthorne’s recognition of, as twin progeny of plantation South; role in US imperialism in Caribbean, Jewett and
New Formalists (Levinson)
New Granada (republic); escaped slaves in positions of authority in
New Historicism
New Home (A). Who’ll Follow? (Kirkland)
New Left (UK)
New World Baroque: Cunha
Newton, Esther: Mother Camp
Newton, Isaac: Principia
niche publics: print publication in age of incorporation
Nick of the Woods (Bird)
NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)
Nolan, Chris: Memento
No-No Boy (Okada)
Norton, Charles Eliot
nostalgia: “residual” or “archaic” (R. Williams)
nuclear family see family, nuclear
nuclear war
nuclear weapon, first belligerent use of
Nussbaum, Martha
O’Keeffe, John: The Highland Reel
O’Neill, Eugene: Long Day’s Journey into Night
O’Neill, James
O’Neill, Joseph: Netherland
OAAP (Our Americas Archive Partnership) (digital archive)
Obama, Barack; postrace aesthetic and
obeah narrative
obscenity in literature, charges of
Occom, Samson
ocean-space: and early America
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Odum, Eugene
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Of Grammatology (Derrida)
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Of One Blood (P. Hopkins)
Office of Digital Humanities (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Offray de la Mettrie, Julien: L’homme machine
Okada, John: No-No Boy
On the Road (Kerouac)
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Organization Man (Whyte)
Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt)
Oryx and Crake (Atwood)
Oskison, John Milton; Black Jack Davy; Tecumseh and his Times; Titan; Wild Harvest
Other, the: aliens as; animals as; human species identity and; interaction with, as the American norm; Native American as; racialized for White national ideal; self and; US South as
Otis, F.N.
Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) (digital archive)
Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (H. Wilson)
Oviedo, Lope de; as epistemological threat to colonialism; as foil to Cabeza de Vaca in Relación; literary-historical exclusion and; perspective on hemispheric turn in American literary studies; and primitivism; story never explicitly told
Pactolus Prime (Tourgée)
Page, Thomas Nelson: Red Rock
Paine, Tom; Common Sense
Panama Canal Zone
Panama Railroad, building of: Seacole and
paranoia: and literalization
Park, Josephine: Apparitions of Asia
Park, Robert
Parker, Andrew
parody: parody of; see also Erasure (Everett)
Parrington, V.L.
“Passage to India” (W. Whitman); quoted
Patterson, Anita
Payne, Albert Bigelow: and Twain
Payne, Anthony
Peabody, Sophia: Juanita
Pearce, Roy Harvey
Pease, Donald E.; on James (C.L.R.); on Melville; on Trilling
Pequot (Native American people): Puritan war against
performance: and American history; meshing with literary studies; over play text; understandings of
performance studies
performative-constative opposition (Austin): Derrida’s deconstruction of
performative utterances
performativity: linguistic; of social roles
person: meaning
Peyton Place (Metalious)
Phelan, Peggy: and performance studies
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart: “The Angel over the Right Shoulder”; The Gates Ajar
Pierre (Melville)
Pioneers, The (Cooper)
Pippin, Robert
plantation society: origins of US national project embedded in
Platonic idealism
Poe, Edgar Allen; “The Fall of the House of Usher”; Parrington on
poetry: and American literary studies; “poetry wars”; political comparison with prose; Sartre and
poiésis; techné and
political estrangement: and Asian American literature
“political innocence”: socialism and
politics: and critical theory (see also systems: and critical theory); and literary form
Poor Richard’s Almanac
Porsdam, Helle
Populists (US)
positivism; Cunha and
Posner, Richard
Posnock, Ross: Color & Culture
possession: bodily; threat of
postcolonialism
posthumanism: “the alien moment”; “the animal moment”; concept; critique of humanist perspective; “the cyborg moment”
postmodernism; deflation of; and the Enlightenment; new media and self; parodied/deflated in Erasure (Everett); “post-postmodernism” and; and writers of color; see also posthumanism
“post-postmodernism”; Erasure (Everett) and; sous rature in
postrace aesthetic; Erasure (Everett) and; postspecies civilization
poststructuralism: and legal education
Pound, Ezra; and Asian Americanist concerns
poverty: origins of class discourse
Powers, Richard; The Echo Maker
Precious (motion picture: Daniels)
presentism; basis for realistic insight into American past; and bodily desire; orientation of literary history
Price, Kenneth
primitivism: in Americas studies; Oviedo and
Principia (I. Newton): Everett and
print publication: in age of incorporation
prison system (US): plantation South and
privacy, constitutional right to
private happiness: dubious criterion of democracy; see also public happiness
private property holding: and state control over Native populations; Thoreau and
probabilities: quantum and chaos theory, nature and
Program in Medical Humanities and Arts, University of California, Irvine
Progressive movement (US)
Project Bamboo
Project Biocultures, University of Illinois, Chicago
Project Gutenberg
propaganda: Bernays on; and literary form
prophecy: The Book of Mormon and
prose: political comparison with poetry
Prose Writers of America, The (Griswold)
Pryor, Richard
pseudonyms: nineteenth-century women writers
public happiness: Arendt’s summarizing of; and early American democracy
public health communication: medical imaging and
public relations industry
publishing and printing: technology and
Puritans: and capitalism as cannibalism; intersubjective nature of identity; legal foundations of Puritan society challenged in Hawthorne; on writers of fiction (in Hawthorne)
Purus (River): Cunha and
Push (Sapphire)
Pynchon, Thomas; The Crying of Lot; “A Journey into the Mind of Watts”
Quakers
quantum theory
Quayson, Ato
Queer (Burroughs)
queer content, in Western and American literature; the American canon; critical perception
queer temporality: “Martha’s Lady” (Jewett)
queer theory
race and racism; African Americans on (see also names of individual authors, e.g. Crummell, Alexander; Smith, James McCune); aliens in allegory of; caricatured/parodied in Erasure (Everett); Cold War, the US South and; in Dickinson (A.); and early American diversity; epistemic space for concept; existence of concept, African American belief in; immigration, American anxieties and; and labor; legal studies and; myth of racial purity; performing racial authenticity; and physical characteristics; as popular entertainment; postrace aesthetic and; “racial populism” (Denning); in reform-minded novels; “separate but equal” solution; shifting demographics; Smith (J.McC.) and; stereotypes; symbolism; “unimprovability” and; white national ideal and racialized others; Winant and racial formation; see also segregation
radiation
Radical Scatters (digital archive)
Ragtime (Doctorow)
Rahv, Philip: “Palefaces and Redskins”
railroads: Emerson on
Railton, Stephen
Ray, Nicholas: Rebel Without a Cause (film)
reading: “disinhibited” (Cavitch); “distant” (Moretti)
reading methods: digital composition and
as critical practice
realism: competing definitions of the real in; Howells’s theories of
reason: and capitalism as cannibalism; Smith (J.McC.), African Americans and
Rebel Without a Cause (motion picture: Ray)
Reconstruction, post-Civil War (US): Crummell, the word and; perceived failure; see also nadir (African American civil rights)
Red Badge of Courage (S. Crane)
Rediker, Marcus: on the slave ship
Regionalism: and Caribbean writing; and sexuality
Reinterpretation of American Literature, The (ed. Foerster)
Reiser, Stanley
Reising, Russell
Relación (Cabeza de Vaca); Americas exceptionalism; author as threatening figure in; author’s role as merchant; author’s self-justification in; changed identity in; and critical romanticizing; discourse of “imperial pacification” in; effects of primitivism and; establishment as hallmark text; failed translation in; indigenous acculturation as subject; “narrative curriculum vitae” for the author; performance of distraction; prototype of literature to come; requested captivity in; see also Oviedo, Lope de
religion: and secularization
“reparative” criticism
representative republic: or democracy; self-culture and
Republican Party (US): origins in equalitarian democracy
research funding; ideology and
research training: for sciences and humanities compared
Revolt of the Cockroach People, The (Acosta)
rhyme: ideology of
Rich, Adrienne; An Atlas of the Difficult World
Richard Hurdis: A Tale of Alabama (Simms)
Riggs, Lynn; Big Lake; The Cherokee Night; Green Grow the Lilacs; The Year of Pilár
“Rip Van Winkle” (Irving)
Rise of Silas Lapham, The (Howells)
Ritchie, Leitch: The Slave-King
rivers: Cunha and; dialectical relationship with land; riparian zones; see also names of individual rivers, e.g. Purus
Roach, Joseph: and performance
Robbins, Jerome
Robocop (film: Verhoeven)
Rogers, Will; Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to his President; There’s Not a Bathing Suit in Russia
romance: and American literary studies; critical progress; and oppressive reality; and shape of American history; and the “world elsewhere”
Romanticism; and literary form
Romanticism against the Tide of Modernity (Löwy & Sayre)
Roosevelt, Theodore: and monolingualism
Rosello, Mireille: on hospitality
Ross, Edward Alsworth: The Old World and the New
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rowe, John Carlos: on Twain
Rowlandson, Mary
Rowson, Susannah; Charlotte Temple; Slaves in Algiers
Rubin, Louis
Ruiz de Burton, Maria Amparo: The Squatter and the Don
rule of law: US
Runner in the Sun (McNickle)
Rush, Benjamin
Ruth Hall (Fern)
S/Z (Barthes): parodied in Erasure (Everett)
Sab (Gómez de Avellaneda)
Sachs, Aaron: on Thoreau
Sacks, Oliver
St. Elmo (A. Evans)
Salem witchcraft trials, 1692-3
Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
Samoset
Sandburg, Carl
Santa Fé Institute
Sapphire: Push
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Savage, Sarah: The Factory Girl
Sayre, Robert
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne); hemispheric context; modern readings; principled resistance to unfair laws; violence and the law
Schismatrix (Sterling)
Schneck, Peter
Schreibman, Susan
Schultz, James A.
science fiction; diffusion of genre in posthumanist age; mixtures with mainstream fiction; see also posthumanism
Scott, Ridley: Blade Runner
Scott, Walter: Lukács and
sea: metaphor for disciplinary fluidity
Seacole, Mary
seafarers: Puritan leaders and
Seaver, James E.: A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
secular, the
secularism: absence in The Book of Mormon; existential relationship to Christianity; term as signifier
secularization narrative; and nineteenth-century American literature
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky; and Billy Budd (Melville); and James (H.); and sexual identities
segregation: constitutional sanction in individual states; literary apologists and the law; the nuclear family, the unconscious and
Seigel, Micol
self: allegorization of; authorial, staging of; the citizen, settlement and displacement of Native peoples; competing identifications; introjection of the social (Castiglia); as machine (H. Adams); new media and; and the Other; technologies of; Thoreau and
Self, Will: Great Apes
self-culture
self-image, critical
Seneca Nation
sensibility: replaced by sexuality in cultural perception
sensory experience and analytic thought
sensory overload: in narrative
“separate but equal,” doctrine of
Sertões, Os (Cunha)
sexual relations, unorthodox: de facto legitimization by conventions of self and the Other
“sexual unknowing”: Herring on critical priorities
sexualities, alternative: embedment for social personal dissidence (Faulkner)
sexuality: policing of in wilderness community (Hawthorne); replacing sensuality
and American literary studies
Shapiro, Stephen
Shattuck, Job
Shays, Daniel
Shelton, Lee
Shenandoah (Howard)
Shklar, Judith: on democracy and social standing
Shklovsky, Viktor
shock: “perception in the form of” (Benjamin)
Shu She Yu see Lao She
Siegel, Don
Siemens, Ray
signification: new media and
Simms, William Gilmore; Richard Hurdis: A Tale of Alabama
Simpson, Lewis
Sinclair, Jo: Wasteland (motion picture)
Sister Carrie (Dreiser)
Slave-King, The (Ritchie)
slave ship: materialization of African diaspora in Atlantic studies
slavery: and Atlantic studies; coolie and slave narratives; as dramatic topic; Haiti, Smith (J.McC.) on; legal studies and; origins of US national project embedded in plantation society; as popular entertainment; and remaining reasons for separate critical treatment of US South; Smith (J.McC.) on
Smith, Adam
Smith, James McCune; biography; as Communipaw
Smith, Captain John
Smith, Joseph, Jr. (compiler): The Book of Mormon
Smith, Martha Nell
Smith, Redbird
Snow, C.P.: “The Two Cultures”
Snyder, Gary
social media and networking
social roles: performativity of
social standing: definition and application of concept
social totality, concept of
socialism: Hawthorne and; moralism/politics; utopian movements in nineteenth-century US
Soifer, Aviam
Solomon, Carl
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
soul: Crummell and
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner)
sous rature (process)
South (US); cultural renaissance; culture of segregation; fantasy of social/cultural cohesion; and ideological purposes in nation’s imaginary; imperial interests and US literary culture; reassessment of fundamental categories; reintegration into US cultural mainstream
Southern Agrarians; see also names of individual writers, e.g. Faulkner, William; Welty, Eudora
Southern (US) literature; and definition of American literature; fetish of place; reorientation toward US West; women writers
Southworth, E.D.E.N.
Sovereignty and Goodness of God, The (Rowlandson)
Spanish language: power and agency in Hugo and Melville
spatial perspectives: intellectual disability in narrative
spatial preoccupation of American studies
species: rewriting of
Spectator, The
speculative fiction
speculative realism
Speed of Dark, The (E. Moon); Reader’s Guide
Spivak, Gayatri
Sport of the Gods, The (Dunbar)
Squatter and the Don, The (Ruiz de Burton)
“Stagger Lee” (blues ballad)
Star Trek (TV series)
Star Wars (motion picture series)
Starr, Emmet
Startsev, Abel: and Twain
status anxiety: social middle ground
Stein, Gertrude; The Making of Americans
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men
sterilization, involuntary
Sterling, Bruce: on cyberpunks; Schismatrix
Stevens, Wallace: law and literature
stomach: capitalist trope
Stone, John Augustus: Metamora, or Last of the Wampanoags
Storey, Moorfield
Story, Justice Joseph
Storyspace (software)
storytelling: and immigrant labor
Stoss (concept): Heidegger’s notion of
Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Dred; law and literature; Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stuckey, Sterling: Africanist critical framework
subjectivity, human: medical research into
subjectivity, sexual: the literary mode and
Sui Sin Far
Sumner, Charles
supremacism see white supremacism
Swisshelm, Jane
“symptomal” reading (Jameson)
systems: capitalism; and critical theory; limits; totalizing; and waste
Takaki, Ronald
“Talented Tenth, The” (Du Bois)
Tales of a Wayside Inn (Longfellow)
Taussig, Michael: on color
Taylor, Diana
Technological Medicine: the Changing World of Doctors and Patients (Reiser)
technology: Benjamin on; essence (Heidegger); and fluidity; and literature; (term); see also communications technology; digital technologies; flash technology; Internet, the
television: and public health communication
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: Smith (J.McC.) on “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
Tepper, Sheri: The Family Tree
Terman, Lewis
Terminator (motion picture: Cameron)
terror of nonbeing: avant-garde artists and
terrorism: “metastasis of war” (Appadurai); postmodern wariness of certainty involved in
text mining
text-networks (model of multiscalar critical analysis); hemispheric
textual revision: and normative frameworks of bodiliness
textuality: levels of
theatre: and American literary studies
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
Third Worldism: Asian American identity and
Thompson, E.P.
Thoreau, Henry David: Sachs on; Walden
“three worlds” theory
time, phenomenology of
Tocantins, Leandro
Toomer, Jean: Cane
topic modeling
totalitarianism; The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt)
Tourgée, Albion W.: Bricks Without Straw; Pactolus Prime; With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys
Toussaint L’Ouverture, François
Trachtenberg, Alan: The Incorporation of America
training of researchers: for sciences and humanities compared
Tramp Abroad, A (Twain)
transatlantic (concept)
transatlantic literary studies; and early American literature; and text networks
Transatlantic Slave Trade database
Transcendentalism
transculturation
transethnicity
translation; in Benito Cereno (Melville); diluting effect; failed, in Relación (Cabeza de Vaca); intertextual connections; in The Slave-King (Ritchie)
transnational corporations, US: West Indian labor and
transnational studies; inadequacy of term; perspective on American literature (per Twain)
Transpacific Displacements (Huang)
Trask, Michael: Cruising Modernism
tribal nations literature; international treatment of indigenity
Trilling, Lionel; on influence; on literature and the idea
Tripmaster Monkey (Kingston)
Tropic Death (stories: Walrond)
Trumbull, John
truth, commonsense notions of: performative utterances and
Tryon, Thomas
Turow, Scott: legal/literary treatment
tutelage, stories of: by nineteenth-century women
Twain, Mark: anti-imperialist aspects; Communism and; criticism in Chinese; in Danish; in French; in German; in Russian; in Spanish; global resonances; Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of; pseudonym; radical writings sidelined in US; social criticism; A Tramp Abroad; transnational perspective; “Treaty with China”; “United States of Lyncherdom”; Zwick and
2001: A Space Odyssey (motion picture: Kubrick)
Ulysses (Joyce)
Unaccustomed Earth (Lahiri)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe); in digital archives; the law in
unconscious, the: cultural dehumanization and; Freud and; and reconceptualization of human being
United Fruit Company; see also Boston Fruit Company
United Kingdom: courts of equity in
“universal suffrage”; irony
university: credentials for creative writing
Unsworth, John
Up from Slavery (Washington)
“usable past”
utopia, Puritan: need to protect
Vaca, Cabeza de see Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez
Valley of the Shadow (digital) project
Vattimo, Gianni
Vault at Pfaff’s, The (archive)
Vectors (online journal); interface and data structure
Verge, The (Glaspell)
Verhoeven, Paul: Robocop
vernacular modernism
Verne, Jules
video games
Vietnam War, Cold War and Asian American literature
violence: exaggeration as norm; history as; law and (in Melville); the state’s assumed monopoly on
viruses: as information; “the virus power” (Burroughs)
Visible Human Project (US National Library of Medicine)
Visualization: and narrative medicine
vitality/-ism, literary
vodoun
Waiting for the Verdict (R.H. Davis)
Wald, Gayle
Walden (Thoreau); jurisdiction and affect in
Walker, David: Du Bois on
Walrond, Eric
Walt Whitman Archive; and nature of databases
Wand, David Hsin-Fu
War of 1812: War of the Gulls (Bigelow)
Warner, Susan B.: The Wide, Wide World
Warren, Kenneth
Warren, Robert Penn
Warren, Samuel
Warrior, Robert: The People and the Word; Tribal Secrets
Warumungu
Washington, Booker T.; Crummell and; Dubois, and the American Negro Academy
Wasteland (motion picture: Sinclair)
Weaver, Jace
Web, the see World Wide Web
Weber, Max: “Science as a Vocation”; and transnational modernity as rationalization
Webster, Daniel
Weinstein, Cindy
Weisberg, Richard
Wells, H.G.
Welty, Eudora
Werber, Bernard: Ants trilogy
Werner, Marta
West, Robin
West Indies: and US, Lamming on; see also Caribbean
Western Union
Wharton, Edith: and cinema; The House of Mirth; Twilight Sleep
Wheatley, Phillis
Whiskey Rebellion
White, James Boyd; The Legal Imagination
White-Jacket (Melville)
white supremacism
Whitefield, George: in Wheatley
Whitehead, Colson
Whitley, Edward: The Vault at Pfaff’s archive
Whitman, Sarah Wyman: and Jewett
Whitman, Walt: and alternative source for American culture; McCarthy and; Moon on; in popular literary history; queer readers and; Rahv on; and self-culture; transnational perspective on; US colonial dream and digital humanities (quoted); see also Walt Whitman Archive
Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair, The (Hawthorne)
Whyte, William: Organization Man
Wide, Wide World, The (Warner)
Widow Ranter, The (Behn)
Wieland, or, The Transformation (C.B. Brown); use of evidence in
Wigmore, John: law and literature
Wild Harvest (Oskison)
Wilde, Oscar
wildness: containment, and erasure of Native collective presence
Williams, Raymond
Williams, William Carlos
Willis, Sara Parton see Fern, Fanny
Wilson, Harriet: Our Nig
Wilson, Rob
Wilson, Sloan: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Wilson, William J.: as Ethiop
Winant, Howard
Winthrop, John: Hawthorne and; “Modell of Christian Charity”
Witcover, Paul
Wizard of Oz, The (Baum)
Wolfe, Cary
Wolfe, Tom: legal/literary treatment
Womack, Craig
Woman Warrior, The (Kingston)
women: and American capitalism; and early cinema; and European male fear of self-corruption; historiographic exclusion; in James (H.); legal status; and manufacturing technologies; nineteenth-century options for financial independence; and the nineteenth-century US novel; seen as threat in The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne); Southern US writers; US legal system and
Women Writers Project (website)
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Seacole)
Woodworth, Samuel: The Forest Rose
world literature (concept): implied equality among texts
World Wide Web; and North American histories; tribal representation on; Web 1.0; Web 2.0
“worlding”
Wright, Richard: and social complicity
Wylie, Philip: A Generation of Vipers
X-ray imaging: and avant-garde art
Xenogenesis trilogy (O. Butler)
Yanagisako, Sylvia
Year of Pilár, The (Riggs)
Yerkes, R.M.
YouTube: and public heath awareness
Yuan Kejia: and Twain
Yun, Lisa: The Coolie Speaks
Zitkala-Ša
Žižek, Slavoj: on “Bartleby” (Melville); on multiculturalism and capitalism; and presentism
Zola, Émile
Zong massacre
Zwick, Jim: and Twain