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, Index .
Characters in literary works are indexed by first name (if any), followed by the
name of the work in parentheses
45 Mercy Street (Sexton), 209, 211
A
ABC of Reading (Pound), 230
“Abortion, The” (Sexton), 130–131
“Abortion Attempt by My Mother,
An” (Beatty), 131
abortion taboo
in “the mother,” 123–132
Adam’s Rib (Herschberger), 237–238
“All My Pretty Ones” (Sexton)
guilt in, 209, 213–214
Alvarez, A., 163
American
culture and society, 38, 41, 45,
47–48, 185, 205
feminism, 238, 240–241, 243
history, 47, 167–168, 175
literature, 91, 159, 163, 170, 173,
175, 177
racial tension in, 39
segregation in, 39
American Dream, An (Mailer), 161
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 40
“Applicant, The” (Plath)
anger and bitterness in, 161
261
“Argument against the Abolition of
Christianity” (Swift), 218
Ariel (Plath)
poems, 159
Artaud, Antonin, 40
Artemis, Rossitsa
on The Satanic Verses, 189–197
Atterbury Francis, 223
Awakening, The (Chopin), 159
Ayatollah Khomeini, 189, 191
B
Baldwin, James, 243
“Battle of the Books, The” (Swift), 218
Baudelaire, Charles, 40
on Confessions of an English Opium
Eater, 1–21
death, 1
drug use, 1
Flowers of Evil, 1
“Les Paradis Artificiels,” 1–21
“Beast, The” (Plath)
anger and bitterness in, 161
Beatty, Jan
“An Abortion Attempt by My
Mother,” 131