Reading public, 679, 685, 688 -90, 729; of avant-garde novels, 733; contributions to pulp magazines, 302 -3; of dime novels, 293 -94, 297, 300 301; nineteenth century, 113 -14, 147; post-Civil War, 251; women, 271, 283, 695
Realism, 10, 697; Althusser's views, 522; Civil War and, 240 -41; ethnic, 382; Howells and, 181 -87; late nineteenth century, 157 -88, 197 200; in Latin American fiction, 611; magic realism and, 524; moral, midtwentieth- century idea, 488; postmodern, 521 -41; reform fiction and, 225 -26; Western, 438
Reality: Coover and, 733; posmodern views, 700, 702-3
Rebellion: Canadian fiction of, 571; male, novels of, 117 -18; midtwentieth-century models, 492 -93
Rechy, John, 406, 502, 802; City of Night, 450, 492
Reciprocity: human, sociological view, 190; in slavery, 99 -100
Reconciliation, post-Civil War, 243-49
Redcam, Tom. See MacDermott, Thomas
Reed, Ishmael, 516, 699, 701 -2, 721 22, 802-3; Flight to Canada, 721; The Free-Lance Pallbearers721; The Last Days of Louisiana Red, 721; Mumbo Jumbo, 704, 721; Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, 450, 721
Reed, John, 337
Reed, Rebecca Theresa, Six Months in a Convent, 147
Reeve, Clara, The Progress of Romance, 73
Reform, 216 -7; individualism and, 493-94; nineteenth century, 130 -54, 217 -39; social, slave narratives and, 39–41
Reformatory institutions, 148 -49
Reform movements, 132 -33, 216
Reform organizations, and sociology, 192
Regionalism, 250 -56, 407; Canadian, 561 -65, 567 -73; and national identity, 263; race and, 412, 420 -36; Southern, 412- 21; Western, 463 -64
Regional recovery projects, 158
Reid, Vic, 593, 594; The Leopard, 598; New Day, 598-99
Religion: in Canada, 568; captivity narratives and, 32 -33; mid-twentiethcentury novels and, 491; and reform, 132
Religious revivals, nineteenth century, 132-33; domestic fiction and, 289
Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front, 319
Remington, Frederic, 304
Renan, Ernest, 241 -42
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Renaud, Jacques, Le cassé, 571
Renfroe, Martha Kay. See Wren, M. K.
Republicanism, 48, 50; Howells and, 184 -86; picaresque novels and, 19 20; and working classes, 148
Republican motherhood, Revolutionaryera idea, 115
Republican Party, 147
Reunions, post-Civil War, 250
Revenge, romance and, 74, 81 -88
Revivalism, nineteenth century, 132 -33; domestic fiction and, 289
Revolutionary change, 14 -15; Davis and, 176; reform and, 217
Revolutionary fervor, Hawthorne and, 84
Reynolds, Clay, 461
Reznikoff, Charles, By the Waters of Manhattan, 387
Rhodes, Eugene Manlove, Barnsford in Arcadia, 368
Rhys, Jean, 594, 803; Voyage in the Dark, 604; Wide Sargasso Sea, 89, 603, 604
Ribalow, Harold, 383
Rich, Adrienne, 545, 547
Richards, David Adams: Blood Ties, 561; Road to the Stilt House, 561
Richardson, Dorothy, The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, 301
Richardson, John, Wacousta; or, The Prophecy: A Tale of the Canadas, 559
Richardson, Samuel, 12, 110; Pamela, 7
Richler, Mordecai, 402; the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 575, 578
Richter, Conrad, The Sea of Grass, 443
Rideout, Walter, The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900–1954, 331
Ridgway, Henry, 94
Riesman, David, The Lonely Crowd, 485
Riis, Jacob, How the Other Half Lives, 225, 381; The Making of an American, 385
Riley, Joan, 653
Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 283, 803- 4; The Circular Staircase, 373; The Man in Lower Ten, 373; The Window at the White Cat, 373
Ringuet (Philippe Panneton), Trente arpents (Thirty Acres), 569
Ríos, Alberto, The Iguana Killer, 522, 536
Rivera, Edward, 406
Rivera, Tomás, '. . y no se lo tragó la tierra,' 453
Robbins, Tom, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, 450
Robinson, Forrest, 452 -53
Robinson, Marilynne, 804; Housekeeping, 458 -59
Rodríguez, Richard, 406
Rodríguez Monegal, Emir, 624
Roffé, Reina, 642; Monte de Venus, 629 -30
Roh, Franz, Nach-Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus, 523
Rolfe, Edwin, 344
Rollins, William, The Shadow Before, 344- 45
Rölvaag, Ole Edvart, 389 -91, 804; Amerika-Breve, 390; Giants in the Earth, 390, 441; I de Dage, 390; Peder Victorious, 391; Their Father's God, 391
Romains, Jules, 345
Romances, literary, 5, 10, 51, 72–88; domestic novels and, 112; Hawthorne and, 66, 69; historical, 257 63; race and, 89- 109
Le roman de la terre, 568 -69
Romantic temperament, and romance form, 74
Ronald, Ann, 459
Rooke, Leon, 567; Shakespeare's Dog, 582
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 402
Roosevelt, Theodore, 304, 358; The Strenuous Life, 249; The Winning of the West, 363 -64; and women's rights, 270
Rosaldo, Renato Ignacio, 539, 804; 'Fables of the Fallen Guy,' 536
Roseberg, Ann, The Bee Book, 579
Rosenberg, Harold, The Tradition of the New, 693
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Rosenberg, Isaac, 318
Rosenfeld, Alvin, 739 -40
Rosenfeld, Isaac, 383, 401; Passage from Home, 404
Rosenfeld, Paul, A Boy in the Sun, 387
Rosenfelt, Deborah, 352
Rosenthal, Bernard, 'Poe, Slavery, and the Southern Literary Messenger: A Reexamination,' 96
Rosler, Martha, 516
Ross, E. A., Social Control, 195
