Cole, Jonathan R., The Wages of Writing, 681 -82
Collage: Davenport and, 744; Stein's writing as, 314
Collective identification, 200
Collins, Merle, 653
Colloquial language, Twain's realism, 172
Colonialism, 254; American, 258; EuroAmerican, 30; fiction of, 257
Colonial period, historical fiction, 259
Colonization, fiction and, 650
The Colored American Magazine, 273 -74
Coltelli, Laura, 456
Coming-of-age stories, gay, 551 -52
'Coming out' stories, 551-52
Commentary, symposium on Jewish writers, 402, 403
Commercialism, women writers and, 64 -65
Commercialization of arts, 517, 518
Commercial novels, 294, 504 -5
Commercial realism, 691
Committed writers, Latin American, 614
Commodification: of arts, 669; of culture, 285, 517, 518; of marginality, 666 -67; of women, 118 -19, 201
Communalism, decline of, 50
Communism, 327, 334 -37, 485 -86; art and, 331- 32; artists and, 353; novels of, 393
Communist Party, 343 -44; and women, 338- 39
Communitarian reform groups, 133 -35
Community, sense of, and racism, 205
Community biographies, early American, 31
Competition from women, male writers and, 62–63
Complex marriage, Oneida community, 134
Compromise of 1850, 218
Conan, Laure (Marie-Louise-Félicité Angers), Angéline de Montbrun, 580, 581
Conduct, character and, 123
Conflicts, unresolved, in African American novels, 349
Conformity of avant-garde, 734 -35
Conglomerate ownership of publishers, 686 -87
Congreve, William, Incognita, 73
Connors, Ralph, The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills, 562
Conrad, Joseph: Fitzgerald and, 324 -25
Conroy, Jack, 334, 344, 346; The Disinherited, 342 -43
Conscience, Howells and, 184
Consciousness, national, West Indian, 590
Consciousness of kind concept, 205
Conservation movement, Western novelists and, 446 -47
Conservatism: of environment novels, 503; and postmodernism, 518; postWorld War II, 485- 88
Construction of gender, 542 -57
Consumer capitalism, views of, 168
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Consumption, postmodern capitalism and, 679
Control, desire for, social reform and, 136
Convent captivity novels, 147
Conventions, literary, 162; nineteenth century, 112 -13; postmodern fiction and, 699 -701, 704 -5; realist, 170, 172
Conversion narratives, 31 -33; Native Americans and, 45
Cook, William Wallace, 293, 297
Cooper, James Fenimore, 8, 23 -25, 51, 57 -59, 72, 438, 465, 766; Afloat and Ashore, 149; The Chainbearer, 143, 466; classic tradition and, 112; Home as Found, 471; The Last of the Mohicans, 51, 54, 87, 112; Leatherstocking tales, 294, 437; The Pioneers, 58, 59; Precaution, 58, 113; The Redskins, 143; revenge theme, 87; Satanstoe, 143; sea fiction, 149; The Spy, 23, 58, 59, 113; and technology, 466, 471; Twain and, 161; The Ways of the Hour, 58, 143; and women, 113; and women's rights, 143
Cooptation, minority fiction and, 502
Coover, Robert, 524 -25, 706, 712 -16, 732 -36, 768; Gerald's Party, 733; The Origin of the Brunists, 713, 733; Pricksongs and Descants, 713, 733; The Public Burning, 699, 704, 714 -16, 733-36; The Universal Baseball Association, 702, 704- 6, 713- 14, 733
Copyright laws, 12, 48
Corpi, Lucha, Delia's Song, 453
Cortázar, Julio, 62: Modelo para armar, 639
Cortina, Leonor, Lucia, 647
Coser, Lewis A., Books: The Culture and Commerce of Publishing, 683 -86
Cosmopolitan novels, 653
Cott, Nancy, 506
Council on Books in Wartime, 686
Counterculture movement, 492
Couser, G. Thomas, 26, 36; Altered Egos, 29
Coverdale, Henry Standish (pseud.), The Fall of the Great Republic, 471-72
Cowley, Malcolm, 336, 383
Crane, Diana, 692
Crane, Stephen, 196, 769; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 225, 385; 'The Open Boat,' 199; The Red Badge of Courage, 225, 226, 249 -50, 304; typecasting, 200
Crates, Joan, Breathing Water, 576
Creolization, 89 -90; novels of, 600, 602
Crèvecoeur, St. John de, Letters from an American Farmer, 91
Crisis, contemporary, 540
Critical social theory, Du Bois and, 210
Criticism, literary: of autobiography, 28–29; Caribbean, 597; and ethnic novels, 386 -87, 494; late nineteenth century, 161; mid-twentieth century, 485, 488; and popular literature, 286; and postmodern fiction, 701; and proletarianism, 332; Russian Jewish establishment, 388; of Western fiction, 442 -43
Crumley, James, 456
Cubism, 313 -14
Cudjoe, Selwin R., Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference, 604
Cullerton, Beatrice, In Search of April Raintree, 576
Cultural clashes: frontier novels, 438; magic realism and, 525
Cultural imperialism, 613, 655; Puig and, 628
Cultural influences in Native American autobiography, 45
Cultural mediation, literature of, 384, 406
Cultural relativism: Chicano novels and, 453; nineteenth century, 122 -23
Cultural values in Western fiction, 464
Cultural voice, in novels, 10 -11, 14
Culture: literary, economy and, 49; popular, 285 -86; postmodern, 515
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Culture (Continued) 20; proletarian, Communist Party and, 343 -44
