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Abel, Elizabeth, 99 -100, 101

"L'abjet d'amour " (Kristeva), 157 -58n. 19

Addison, Joseph, 4 -5;

"Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination," 4

Adorno, Theodore W., 30 ;

Aesthetic Theory , 179 -80n. 28

Aesthetics, 2 -3, 11 , 154 n. 8;

definition of aesthetic idea, 108 -9, 116 ;

relationship to ethics and politics, 40 -41;

relationship to risk and art, 66 -67;

of Sethe's back scars in Beloved , 129 -32, 146 ;

sexual differences in, 45 , 47 -50, 72 -73;

and speculation, 40 -45;

women writers and theories on, 76 -79.

See also specific theorist

Aesthetic Theory (Adorno), 179 -80n. 28

African-American literature, 148 ;

attachment and detachment in, 119 -22;

and "ghost in the machine," 105 -6, 116 ;

position within American Literature, 106 -8.

See also Africanist presence

Africanist presence, 106 -8, 115 , 177 nn. 2, 5.

See also African-American literature

Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (de Lauretis), 149 n. 2;

"Desire in Narrative," 157 n. 16

Allen, Priscilla: "Old Critics and New: The Treatment of Chopin's The Awakening, " 159 n. 28

All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: "Teaching Black-Eyed Susans: An Approach to the Study of Black Women Writers" (Washington), 175 n. 50

Althusser, Louis: For Marx,150 n. 6

American Literature: "The Awakening: A Political Romance" (Thornton), 159 n. 28

Ammons, Elizabeth: Edith Wharton's Argument with America,165 -66n. 34

Angier, Carole, 100

Anthropology (Kant), 72

Anxiety of influence, 17 -18, 155 n. 11

Anxiety of Influence, The (Bloom), 155 n. 11

Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, The (Foucault), 149 n. 1

Armstrong, Nancy: Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel,171 n. 13

Art, 152 n. 20, 179 -80n. 28;

and beauty as commodity, 56 -59, 63 , 66 -67;

relationship to ethics and aesthetics, 66 -67;

relationship to speculation and chance, 59 -67.

See also Beautiful, the

Art of the Novel, The: "Roderick Hudson" (James), 169 n. 1

Astell, Jane, 173 n. 20

Attachment, 124 ;

and detachment in African-American literature, 119 -22;

as excluded in Kantian sublime, 108 -9, 112 -16, 119 , 135 ;

in Isis myth, 108 -19;

in mourning, 140 -44;

relationship to emotion, 113 -16

Atwood, Margaret, 102

Aubin, Penelope, 76

Auditor, identification between orator and, 4 -5, 7 , 17 , 27 -28

Austen, Jane, 76 ;

Emma, 171 n. 13

Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism, The: "Old Critics and New: The Treatment of Chopin's The Awakening " (Allen), 159 n. 28

Awakening, The (Chopin), 15 -16, 151 -52n. 17;

juxtaposition of opposites in, 6 , 38 -39;

relationship between auditor and orator in, 27 -28, 29 ;

sea metaphor in, 12 , 26 -35.

See also Chopin, Kate