Conder, John J., 11, 20, 158

Crane, Stephen, 66, 145, 155

Culley, Margaret, 90–91, 115, 158

Daisy Miller, 21

deadly wives, 18

Death Valley, 55, 83

department stores, 62

determinism, xi, 2–4, 8–9, 11, 18, 20, 44, 59, 66

Dilligham, William B., 53, 158

domesticity, 90, 98, 115

Dr. Anderson, 124–125, 132–137, 139–140, 143–144

Dr. Zay,, 10

Dr. Zay, 10

Dreiser, Theodore, x, xiii–xiv, 1–2, 4–5, 20, 27, 57–59, 63–64, 67–70, 73, 76–78, 81–82, 86–87, 92, 99, 108, 110, 113

Dyer, Joyce, 90, 112, 115, 158

Edna Pontellier, 4–5, 19–20, 24, 26–27, 89–116, 122, 131, 137–138, 140, 142–145, 151–153

environmentSee also heredity, x, 2–5, 8–10, 18–21, 24–31, 35–36, 42, 54, 57–59, 65–66, 77, 83, 85, 90, 92, 96, 108, 112–113, 116–118, 120, 124, 140, 142, 145, 147, 150–152

Farrell, Edward, 143–144, 158

femme fatale, ix–xiii, xv–xvi, 1–2, 4–11, 18–19, 21, 23–24, 26–27, 30–39, 42, 45, 47–60, 62, 66–67, 69–70, 72–79, 81–86, 89–91, 93–94, 96, 100–103, 109–110, 112, 115–116, 118, 120, 128, 130, 132–134, 136–138, 140, 142–153

Fitzgerald and Moy, 67, 71

Fleissner, Jennifer L., 84, 158

Fredrick, Harold, 146, 155

free will, 8–9, 11, 20, 29, 42, 59, 84, 86, 112, 114–115, 120–121, 134, 137, 141, 152

French, Warren, 36, 39, 55, 158

Frohock, W. M., 65–66, 158

Fryer, Judith, 25, 158

Gelfant, Blanche H., 73–74, 159

George Gerry, 149

George Hurstwood, xiii–xiv, 4, 7, 24, 27, 58, 67–87, 97, 100, 132, 142–144, 149

Gerber, Philip, 66, 85, 159

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 91–92, 112, 155

Glasgow, Ellen, 92

Godey’s Lady’s Book, 32, 80, 158

Harlem Renaissance, 127

Harper, Frances E. W., 23

Harris, Susan K., 23, 108, 159