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