Index 903Sinclair, Upton, 302–305
Singer, Isaac Bashevis,
740–741
Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God (Edwards), 59
Sioux people
Cooper on, 97
history and folklore, 298
stories, 4–5, 7–8, 10, 11
Sippi (Killens), 661
Sir Rohan’s Ghost (Spofford),
286
Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 336,
337, 338
Six Nations, 134
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey
Crayon, Gent. (Irving),
93–94
Sketches of Southern Life
(Harper), 162–163
Slaughterhouse-Five
(Vonnegut), 569
“The Slave Mother” (Harper),
162
“The Slave Ship” (Whittier),
148
slavery
conversion to Christianity
as justification, 75
Crèvecoeur on, 64–65
Dwight on, 78–79
early 19th-century
conditions, 89–90
Franklin on, 62
Freneau on, 78
Fuller on, 120
Jefferson on, 67–68, 70
plantation owners’ attitude,
51, 53
pro-slavers’ writings,
149–154
Puritan writers on, 47, 48
spirituals, 196–197
Washington on, 321–322
and women, 128–129,
130–133, 152–154,
154–157, 166–167
Woolman on, 57
see also African-Americansslavery: abolition and
abolitionism
19th century, 89, 90–91,
145–148, 154–157, 160,
162
abolition achieved, 220,
221
African-American writers
on, 73–77, 141–144,
160–161, 162
and Emerson, 118
and feminism, 156
and Harper, 162
and Stowe, 171, 172–173
and Thoreau, 125–126
slavery: literary treatments
18th century, 54
19th century, 166–176, 206,
228, 251–254
20th-century fiction,
487–488, 499, 512–514,
663, 670–672
20th-century science
fiction, 739
African-American
19th-century fiction,
161–171
secret histories, 146, 147
slave narratives, 73–74, 76,
126–134, 160, 164
slave narratives, modern
versions, 659, 661–662,
670, 676
slave writings, 54
“Slavery’s Pleasant Homes”
(Child), 155
“Slim in Hell” (Brown),
492
Slinger (Dorn), 604–605
Sloan, John, 337
“A Small, Good Thing”
(Carver), 703
Smart Set, 506
Smiley, Jane, 597–598
Smith, Aaron, 822
Smith, Bessie, 497, 667
Smith, Dave, 565
Smith, Edward Elmer
(“Doc”), 736Smith, Captain John,
25–27, 28
Smith, Lee, 595, 596
Smith, Lillian, 457
snakes, in Native American
stories, 11
Snelling, Paula, 457
Snodgrass, W. D., 535, 537,
538
Snow-Bound (Whittier), 148
“The Snow-Storm”
(Emerson), 118
Snow White (Barthelme),
713–714
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
(Hemingway), 412
Snyder, Gary, 609–610, 611
social change
and Christianity, 90–91,
145
early 20th century, 310–311
social change: literary
treatments
early 20th century, 327–328
Jewett, 235–238
Twain, 226–229
social convention and
conditioning: literary
treatments
Austin, 299
Chopin, 244–247
Corso, 615
Heinlein, 736
Herbert, 737
James, 263, 264–267
Kesey, 639–640
Lewis, 340–342
Twain, 227–229
Wharton, 327, 328–329
socialism: literary treatments
early 20th century, 318, 425
naturalists, 271–272,
274–275, 278–279
Sinclair, 302, 303–305
society
Doctorow on, 576
Faulkner on, 416
pro-slavers on, 150–151
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