Adams, Brooks, 153

Adams, Henry, 34–35, 44, 121–122, 229, 277, 290n5, 291n8, 293n4

advertising, 20, 33, 77–92, 171, 237, 243–244, 239n5

allegory, 184–201, 211, 215, 218

American Historical Association, 121

Ammons, Elizabeth, 19, 47, 284

Anderson, Benedict, 30, 50–51, 104, 133

Anglo-Saxon supremacy, 55, 121, 213

Anti-Imperialist League, 58

Atlantic Monthly,, 116, 119, 126–127, 210, 238, 240, 264–265

Auerbach, Erich, 200–201

Bancroft, George, 120, 153

Bardon, Ruth, 10, 37, 74, 147, 149, 163, 167, 186

Barthes, Roland, 125, 137, 236, 294n6, 295n2

Baudrillard, Jean, 5

Baum, Rosalie, 59

Bellamy, Edward, 45, 260, 288n8

Bellamy, Michael, 59

Benjamin, Walter, 43, 196, 273, 294n7

and allegory, 196

“The Storyteller,”, 186–188

“Theses on the Philosophy of History,”, 175–176, 199, 203, 205

Bennett, George, 162, 288n10

Berger, John, 236–237, 241–242, 246

Bergson, Henri, 23, 34

Berlant, Lauran, 5, 57

Berthoff, Walter, 18, 289n16

Bhabha, Homi, 8, 123

Bierce, Ambrose, 14–15, 18, 262

Borus, Daniel, 9, 233, 288n8, 290n16

Bourdieu, Pierre

“genesis amnesia,”, 143, 196

Brennan, Timothy, 133

Brodhead, Richard, 87

Brogan, Kathleen, 158

Cable, George Washington, 259, 261

Cady, Edwin, 10, 127, 164, 201, 216

Cahan, Abraham, 48, 259, 262, 276–283

The Rise of David Levinsky,, 281–282

Yekl,, 278–281

Carnegie, Andrew, 176, 231, 233

Carrington, George, 246

Carter, Everett, 59

Chesnutt, Charles, 48, 259, 262, 267–277, 279, 282–283, 297n6

“Cicely’s Dream,”, 270, 273–276

“The Shadow of My Past,”, 270

“The Wife of His Youth,”, 270–273

Chopin, Kate, 260, 262

Cody, “Buffalo” Bill, 33