ABSTRACT

Canon, American literary, 24, 90, 114, 173, 258, 271, 290, 339, 340

Cobb, Sylvanus, 312

Comparison of male and female authors, 27, 64, 154, 166, 302; as humorists, 144, 289, 354

Dime novels, 180, 264

Domesticity, 186, 187, 308, 352, 361; as theme, 122, 188, 196, 295

Duyckinck, Evert, 19

Feminism as theme, 257, 313, 354, 355, 380

Germany, 235

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 319

Houses, 1, 135, 178, 217

Humor, 147, 274, 296, 333, 355; collection of, 197, 2 97; comparison of women's and men's, 144, 289, 354

Indiana, 176, 304

Indians. See Native Americans

Intellectuals, 69, 93

Italy, 381

James, Henry, 143

Jews in literature, 152

Journalists, 10, 32, 70, 124, 165, 230, 236, 322

Jung, Carl, 37

Kennedy, John Pendleton, 314

Kentucky, 336, 337, 341

Klein, Melanie, 217

Libraries, public, 54, 131, 316

Literary criticism, 27, 188, 340, 366; nineteenthcentury, 45, 67, 166, 200, 234

Literary salons, 41

Louisiana Territory, 85

Love and marriage as theme, 44, 117, 150, 1 69

New York City, 101, 160, 269

New York State, 19, 102, 245

North Carolina, 181, 237, 356

Northern literature, 58, 65, 129, 276, 299. See also names of individual states

Roe, E.P., 302

Romanticism, 6, 122, 229

St. Nicholas, 165

Sales figures, 227, 257, 302, 380; in 1850's, 113, 224, 246, 268

Seduction novel, 82, 117

Sentimentalism, 179, 311, 339, 340; as compared with realism, 96, 290, 355; as compared with romanticism, 6; as a literary tradition, 92, 94, 116, 254, 298