A History of American Literature

866 Index

Christianity (cont’d)

influence on African-

American writings, 75,

142, 144

influence on Native

American writings,

136, 137

Paine on, 65

and social change, 79–80,

145

Virgin of Guadalupe,

56–57, 140–141

Williams on, 34

see also Catholicism;

conversion to

Christianity; religion

Chu, Louis, 525, 764

“The Church Mouse”

(Freeman), 238

Ciardi, John, 542, 543

cinema

Stein on, 398–399

see also Hollywood

cinematic devices

and Bernstein, 725

and Dos Passos, 409

and Rice, 423

and Wilson, 694

circumstance: literary

treatments

Dreiser, 336, 338, 339

James, 260, 264–267

Stevens, 381

“Circumstance” (Spofford),

287

Cisneros, Sandra, 755–756

Cities of the Plain

(McCarthy), 587

city life: literary treatments

Barthelme, 713

Brooks, 495–496

Bullins, 665, 666

Cisneros, 755–756

crime novels, 505–507,

731–734

dispossession, 319

Dreiser, 337

Fearing, 452

Howells, 259

Odets, 425

Patchen, 453

Sandburg, 446

Selby, 703

Wright, 499–502

Yezierska, 466–467

see also New York City

civil rights movement, 524,

525–526, 527, 640

leaders’ writings, 655–657

literary treatments, 661,

673

and Smith, 457

Clampitt, Amy, 564

Clara Howard (Brown), 87

Clarel (Melville), 184, 189

Clari (Payne), 421

Clark, Kenneth, 551

Clark, Sappho (Contending

Forces), 283–284

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg,

574

Clarke, Arthur C., 737

Clarke, Lewis, 164

Clarke, Mathew St Claire, 110

Clarke, Milton, 164

classical writers, influence

on Evans, 53

on H. D., 361

on Hadas, 626

on Longfellow, 203

on Wheatley, 76

on Wilder, 423

see also Virgil

Clay Walls (Ronyoung), 775

clearing vs. wilderness:

literary treatments

Chopin, 245

Dickinson, 215

Ellison, 652

Frost, 351, 352

Hawthorne, 181

Melville, 186

Plath, 562

Pynchon, 707

Wright, 502

Cleaver, Eldridge, 640

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,

see Twain, Mark

Cleveland, Grover, 321

The Cliff-Dwellers (Fuller),

272

Clifton, Lucille, 566, 567,

648, 822

Clinton, Bill, 527

Clock Without Hands

(McCullers), 592

Close Range (Proulx), 599

Clotel (Brown), 163, 165–166

Clothes for a Summer Hotel

(Williams), 687

Clovernook (Cary), 192

Clurman, Harold, 424

Cody, William F. (“Buffalo”

Bill), 503, 689, 734

Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 759–760

Cogewea, the Half-Blood

(Mourning Dove), 475

Cold War, 521–522

literary treatments, 711

Coleman, Wanda, 650

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 93,

114, 116, 185, 381

Collection of Hymns and

Spiritual Songs

(Occom), 72

Collier’s, 302

The Colonel’s Dream

(Chesnutt), 254

colonization

English, 21–27

French and Spanish, 14–21

groups disadvantaged by,

27–28

Puritan colonies, 28–31

The Color Purple (Walker),

673–674

Colored American Magazine,

282–283

Coltrane, John, 641, 649

The Columbiad (Barlow), 55,

79–80

Columbus, Christopher, 1–4

literary treatments, 5, 10,

80, 94, 791–792

“La comadre Sebastiana,” 140

Come Back, Little Sheba

(Inge), 688

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