A History of American Literature

Index 899

The Real Life of Sebastian

Knight (Nabokov), 745

realism

19th-century drama,

420–422

19th-century novels, 224,

255–281

dirty realism, 568, 702–704,

806–808

domestic realism, in

postwar drama,

679–684, 690–691,

692–693

Hansberry on, 663

and New Journalists,

700–703

reality

Nabokov on, 746

Stevens on, 380–381

Reaper, 626

Rebel Angels, 623, 624

The Rebels (Child), 154

“Recipe” (Mirikitani), 772

Recollections of a Forest Life

(Copway), 136

The Red Badge of Courage

(Crane), 276–277

Red Rock (Page), 241

Redburn (Melville), 184, 185

The Redeemed Captive

Returning to Zion

(Williams), 45–46

redemption: literary

treatments

Crane, 395

Delany, 739

Fugitives, 431, 440–441

Grey, 505

Merrill, 623

O’Connor, 591–592

Occom, 72

Welch, 788

The Redskins (Cooper), 99

Redwood (Sedgwick), 102

Reed, Ishmael, 528, 657–659,

824

Reed, John, 454

Reed, Lou, 793

Reeve, F. D., 824

regionalism

African-American and

Native American,

233–235

definition, 231

Fugitives and

traditionalists, 431–445

New England, 235–239

South, 239–255

Twain, 224–231

West and Midwest,

231–233

religion

in 18th-century works,

57–60

in 19th-century works, 171,

173, 199

African-American services,

153–154

and Baldwin, 653–654

in colonial poetry, 36–38,

42–44

Douglass on, 130

in early 20th-century

literature, 272,

626–627

Edwards on emotion’s

place in, 59

Emerson on, 114, 115

evangelical writings, 18th

century, 71–72

evangelism, 49, 58–60, 90

and Foote, 282

and King, 657

and Lowell, 555

Melville on faith, 187–188,

189, 190

Native American, 35,

296–297

and O’Connor, 591–592

and O’Neill, 426–427, 430

and Puritan writings,

28–31, 35, 37, 39–44

Stevens on, 382–383

and Tate, 438

see also Buddhism;

Catholicism;

Christianity; Islam;

spirituality

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

(Hamid), 800, 802–804,

805, 809

“Remember” (Harjo), 781

Remember to Remember

(Miller), 636

renewal: literary treatments

Douglass, 130

Native American stories, 13

naturalists, 274

Thoreau, 125

repetition

and Everson, 607

and Faulkner, 415–419

Hejinian on, 722

and Le Sueur, 461

and Olson, 600

and Stein, 399

and Welch, 787

and Whitman, 212

The Repository (Murray), 70

repression: literary

treatments

Gilman, 289–290

Glasgow, 331–332

Thurber, 511

Wharton, 329

Requiem for a Nun

(Faulkner), 415

“Requiem for the Spanish

Dead” (Rexroth), 450

Reservation Blues (Alexei),

792, 793–794

reservations: literary

treatments, 792, 793–794

Resolutions (Edwards), 58

“A Respectable Woman”

(Chopin), 244

“The Return of the Private”

(Garland), 270

revenge: literary treatments,

179, 181

Review of the Debate in the

Virginia Legislature

(Dew), 150

“The Revolt of ‘Mother’ ”

(Freeman), 238–239

The Revolt of the Cockroach

People (Acosta), 756

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