Silences (60 page)
Authors: Shelly Fisher Fishkin
Academy of American Poets Awards,
189
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
(Charles Belmont Davis),
117
Advertisements for Myself
(Mailer),
238
“After the Pleasure Party” (Melville),
196
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Alberta
(Sandel),
90
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Alcoholism,
149
Alexander’s Bridge
(Cather),
137
American Academy/National Institute of Arts & Letters Awards,
189
“American Aloe on Exhibition, The” (Melville),
135
American Notes
(Dickens),
284
Angel in the house situation,
34–37
,
42–43
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207
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213–217
“Angel Over the Right Shoulder, The” (E. Stuart Phelps),
207
“Anne” (Davis),
111
Appearance,
233–234
Ariel
(Plath),
36
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Art of Sylvia Plath, The
(ed. Newman),
37
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“Artist as Uneconomic Man, The” (Lynes),
168
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Atlantic Monthly
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63–65
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Authors and Friends
(Fields),
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“Babushka Farnham” (Fisher),
18
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90
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“Babysitters, The” (Plath),
194
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Bell Jar, The
(Plath),
30
Billy Budd
(Melville),
8
Bits of Gossip
(Davis),
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Black American Writers
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146
“Black North, The” (Davis),
112
Blight,
38
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224–227
; hidden,
228–247
“Blind Tom” (Davis),
82–83
Bollingen
Poetry Prize,
189
Book Review Index
,
189
Books in Print
,
190
“Bridge, The” (Crane),
165
Bright Book of Life
(Kazin),
187
Burning Brand, The
(Pavese),
153
Call It Sleep
(Henry Roth),
9
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“Camoëns” (Melville),
135
Cane
(Toomer),
9
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Century of Dishonor, A
(Helen Hunt Jackson),
109
Chapters from a Life
(E. Stuart Lyon Phelps),
115
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,
206
Children’s books,
37
City of Words—American Fiction 1950–1970
(Tanner),
187
Clarissa
(Samuel Richardson),
27
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Collected Essays of Katherine Anne Porter, The
,
41
n
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
,
244
n
Conscience,
42
Contemporary Literary Criticism; Cumulative Index to Authors
,
187
Contemporary Novel; A Checklist of Critical Literature in Britain and America Since 1945
,
187
Contemporary Novelists
,
188
Contemporary World Literature
,
187
Counterfeiters, The
(Gide),
154
“Country Girls in Town” (Davis),
112
Country of the Pointed Firs
(Jewett),
139
Course in Poetics
(Valéry),
12
Cousin Bette
(Balzac),
154
Crack-Up, The
(Fitzgerald),
147
,
153
Creativity,
9–21
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152–158
,
261–264
Critical attitudes toward women,
30
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31
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40–41
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99–100
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109
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171
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230–253
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (Whitman),
65
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“Curse of Education” (Davis),
112
Dallas Galbraith
(Davis),
100
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
(DuBois),
33
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Daughter of Earth
(Smedley),
40
,
44–45
De Profundis
(Wilde),
148
Dear Theo
(Van Gogh),
153
Declaration
of Women’s Rights,
54–55
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108
Democratic Vistas
(Whitman),
182–183
Devil’s Hand, The
(Kelley),
35
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Diaries
(Kafka),
153
Diaries
(Nin),
43
Diario del Cuartelo
(Gutierrez),
144
Dictionary of American Biography
,
113
“Disease of Money-Getting, The” (Davis),
112
Dr. Zay
(E. Stuart Lyon Phelps),
115
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Drug use,
149
Earthen Pitchers
(Davis),
57
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104–107
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109
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111
Education,
23
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52–54
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263
; curriculum,
28
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30
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180
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186
“Ellen” (Davis),
75
Eminent Women of the Age
(Stanton),
53
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“Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor-car” (Woolf),
217
Factory Girl, The
,
285
Far From the Madding Crowd
(Hardy),
125
Female Labor Reform Association,
285
Femininity,
30
Feminist literary criticism,
181
First generation,
263–264
“Flee on Your Donkey” (Sexton),
226
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Foreground silences,
10
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16
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21
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37–39
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150–151
Fullness of time,
13
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33
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163–165
Galaxy
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95
Girlhood, leeching of capacity,
27–30
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194–198
Governments, silencing by,
9
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143–144
Group, The
(McCarthy),
250
Guggenheim Fellowship for Diction, Drama and Poetry,
189
Haunted
Manor House
(Davis),
94
Hidden blight,
228–247
Hidden silences,
8–9
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21
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38
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138–140
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145
Hide and Seek
(West),
153
Homely underpinning,
12
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154–155
Hours of Isis, The
(Eaton),
236
House of All Nations
(Stead),
243
Idyll of Work
(Larcom),
286
“Ignoble Martyr” (Davis),
112
“Immolated” (Melville),
134
“In the Grey Cabins of New England” (Davis),
112
“Is It All for Nothing?” (Davis),
112
Ishi
(Kroeber),
42
Jane Eyre
(Charlotte Brontë),
60–61
,
234
Jennie Gerhardt
(Dreiser),
9
Jewish Woman in America, The
(Michel, Hyman and Baum),
183
“John Lamar” (Davis),
72–73
Joseph Conrad on Fiction
,
153
Journal
(Mansfield),
153
Journals
(Gide),
153
Journals
(Thoreau),
153
Jude the Obscure
(Hardy),
6
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122
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124
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263
Jury of
Her Peers
(Glaspell),
40
Käthe Kollwitz, Life in Art
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210
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212
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Knock Upon Silence
(Kizer),
41
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Ladder of the World’s Joy
(Appleton),
195
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Language,
239–241
Law Unto Herself, A
(Davis),
57
n
,
108–109
Leaves of Grass
(Whitman),
150–151
“Letter from Auschwitz,”
155
Letters
(Mansfield),
153
Letters Home
(Plath),
30
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Letters of Emily Dickinson
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117
Letters of Joseph Conrad
,
156–157
Letters of Malcolm Lowry, The
153
Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
(ed. Fields),
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Letters to Milena
(Kafka),
153
Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, The
(Fields),
77
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Life As We Have Known It, Memoirs of the Working Women’s Guild
(Woolf),
45
Life in the Iron Mills;
or
The Korl Woman
(Davis),
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48–50
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64–67
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103
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112–114
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115
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Life of Charlotte Brontë
(Gaskell),
203
Life of Thomas Hardy, The
,
123
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Literary atmosphere,
171–176
Literary situation,
166–176
Literary Women
(Moers),
193
Literature, value of journals, personal accounts,
45
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Literature courses,
28
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30
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180
,
186
Little Disturbances of Man, The
(Paley),
44
Lives that never came to writing,
10–11
,
146
,
151
MacDowell Colony,
167
Madness.
See
Breakdown
Malte Laurids Brigge
(Rilke),
153
Man to Man
(Schreiner),
151
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