Caribbean writers, 656, 668 -69, 671
Caricature, in nineteenth-century romance, 81, 83 -84
Carlyle, Thomas, and slavery, 93
Carpentier, Alejo, 521, 522, 524 -26, 609, 611 -12, 764; Explosion in a Cathedral, 525; The Kingdom of This World, 524-26; 'Prologue,' 523, 526
Carrier, Roch, La Guerre, Yes Sir! 571
Carroll and Graf, publishers, 393
Carver, Raymond, 521, 535, 764- 65; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 535
Cash, W. J., The Mind of the South, 416 -17
Caspary, Vera, Thicker Than Water, 393
Cassatt, Mary, 268
Castellanos, Rosario, 610, 633 -34, 636; Balún Canán (The Nine Guardians), 633; Oficio de Tinieblas, 633
Catalog, in postmodern fiction, 705
Categories, literary, 701
Cather, Willa, 268, 270, 273, 278 -80, 282, 283, 441; Death Comes for the Archbishop, 280, 441; A Lost Lady, 441; My Antonia, 280, 441; O Pioneers! 441; The Professor's House, 280, 441; The Song of the Lark, 279-80, 441
Catholic communities, novels of, 403
Catholic immigration, fear of, 146 -47
Cautela, Giuseppe, 398
Censorship, 668
The Century (magazine), 303
Césaire, Aimé, 92: Discourse on Colonialism, 654
Cezanne, Paul: Stein and, 313
Chain bookstores, 687 -88
Chametzky, Jules, 340, 384
Chanady, Amaryll Beatrice, 523
Chandler, Raymond, 371, 375, 765; The Big Sleep, 374, 376 -77, 450; Farewell, My Lovely, 376, 377; The Simple Act of Murder, 374
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Chang, Diana, 405
Change, Quebec and, 568 -69
Channing, William Ellery, 132
Character: Conduct and, 123; in early American novels, 10; in Gass's fiction, 740 -41; in Hawkes's fiction, 729; in postmodern fiction, 705 -6, 716, 718
Charles Scribner's Sons, 389
Charvat, William, 58, 689
Chase, Richard, 72
Chauveau, Pierre-Joseph-Oliver, 573
Chavez, Denise, 765; The Last of the Menu Girls, 536
Cheap fiction, nineteenth century, 287
Cheever, George B., Deacon Giles' Distillery, 138
Cheever, John, 508, 765- 66; Falconer, 508; The Wapshot Chronicle, 508; The Wapshot Scandal, 508
Cheney, Harriet Vaughan, A Peep at the Pilgrims, 123- 24
Chesebo, Caroline, Isa: A Pilgrimage, 111, 139
Chestnutt, Charles, 161, 178 -81, 187, 188, 241, 766; The Conjure Woman, 244 -45; 'The Goophered Grapevine,' 245; The House Behind the Cedars, 178, 181 -82, 187; The Marrow of Tradition, 178-81, 'Po' Sandy,' 245
Chicago, literary activity, 311 -12, 407
Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1893), 189, 242, 251 -52
Chicano novels, 453, 501; fotonovela realist, 539 -40
Chicanos. See Mexican American writers
Child, Lydia Maria, 42, 105, 766, 786; The American Frugal Housewife, 116; An Appeal for the Indians, 122; An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, 91, 142; Hobomok, 112, 122; and influence of women, 116; The Mother's Book, 116, 122; Philothea, 119; Poe's reviews, 102; A Romance of the Republic, 119
Childhood, idealization of, 255- 56
Childhood illness, African American writers and, 434
Chin, Frank, 406
Chinese American fiction, 499
Chinese immigrants, first women novelists, 277
Chopin, Kate, xii, 267 -68, 270, 273, 283, 766- 67; The Awakening, 176, 225, 230 -31, 254
Christian, Barbara, 670
Christianity: domestic ideology and, 127 -28; sociology and, 192
Christian Millennium, technology and, 468
Christie, Agatha, 373
Christmas Rebellion, 97
Chu, Louis, 405, 767; Eat a Bowl of Tea, 499
Church, and novels, 12–13
Churchill, Winston, 283; Richard Carvel, 259
Ciambelli, Bernardino, 398
Cinema: film noir, 377 -78; Westerns, 367, 370 -71, 440 -41
Cisneros, Sandra, 767-68; The House on Mango Street, 536
Civil disobedience, Emerson and, 130
Civilizing influence of women, nineteenth-century idea, 115 -17, 126
Civil Rights movement, Warren and, 416
Civil War, 157, 240; Crane and, 249; and dime novel readership, 293; domesticity cult and, 121 -22; reinterpretations, 243
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 442 -43; The City of Trembling Leaves, 443; The Ox-Box Incident, 442-43; The Track of the Cat, 443
Clarke, Austin: The Bigger Light, 596; The Meeting Point, 596; The Prime Minister, 575; Storm of Fortune, 575
Class, social, 217; gender and, 283- 84; postmodern, 520; rebellion against, 276
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Class conflict: late nineteenth century, 158; Norris and, 262 -63; women's views, 338
Class distinctions: Davis and, 174 -77; eighteenth century, 34; proletarianism and, 337- 38
Classics, literary: Canadian, 577 -78; nineteenth century, 70 -71
Classic tradition, definition of, 111 -12
Class relations, Chesnutt and, 179 -80
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. See Twain, Mark
Clemm, Maria, 94
Cliff, Michelle, 653, 670; Abeng, 605; Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise, 605; The Land of Look Behind, 605; No Telephone to Heaven, 605
Clubs, and social change, 268
Cody, William F.See Buffalo Bill
Cohen, Matt, The Disinherited, 561
Colcord, Lincoln, 390
Cold War, 486; and postmodernism, 516; and proletarian art, 331 -33
