Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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access point, 99, 127, 157, 178 aesthetics: in Garland’s works, 42, 56, 57–58; in Harte’s works, 79; in Riis’s works, 141 Africa/African, 113, 114, 117 alienation: in Atherton’s works, 91; in Cable’s works, 122; and characteristics of regional fiction, 17, 36; in Frederic’s works, 66, 67, 70; in Jewett’s works, 22, 23, 37; and link between real property and regionalism, 121; and urbanism, 5–6; and what difference regional writing makes, 5–6, 15. See also estrangement ; isolation; marginalization American Scene, The (James), 127 Ammons, Elizabeth, 12 anthropology, 19, 23, 61, 129, 138 Arena magazine, 50 artificiality, in Garland’s works, 49 assimilation: in Atherton’s works, 74, 89, 90, 95; in Cable’s works, 99, 113, 114, 117, 121, 122; and characteristics of regional fiction, 179; in Frederic’s works, 66; in Jewett’s works, 28, 29, 40; in Riis’s works, 138, 139, 140, 143, 146, 147, 149, 150, 161; Strong’s views about, 169, 178; and Tammany, 169, 178; and travel writings about California , 76–77; and urban/slumming literature , 125, 132; and what difference regional writing makes, 7, 16 Atherton, Gertrude, 7, 127; The Bell and the Fog by, 87–88; California: An Intimate History by, 89; The Californians by, 14, 15, 73–75, 76, 79, 80–97; James’s influence on, 87–88; “The Pearls of Loreto” by, 90; The Splendid Idle Forties by, 89, 90 Atlantic Monthly, 4, 50 audience. See readers authenticity: in Atherton’s works, 74–75, 84, 86, 87, 91; Bell’s views about, 131; in Cable’s works, 100, 104–5, 118; in Crane’s works, 128, 129; in Frederic’s works, 66, 71; in Garland’s works, 44; in Jewett’s works, 18; nineteenth-century preoccupation with, 35; and pastoral regionalism, 125; and problems in regional fiction, 72; in urban/slumming literature, 125, 126, 128, 129 authority: and access to authorship, 127; in Lewis’s works, 167; in Riis’s works, 132, 138, 140, 147; in slumming fiction, 127 autobiography. See Son of the Middle Border , A (Garland) Balcony Stories (King), 105 Balibar, Etienne, 20, 101, 119 Barthes, Roland, 20, 22 Bell, Michael Davitt, 14, 129, 131 Bell and the Fog, The (Atherton), 87–88 Belsey, Catherine, 120–21 Bhabha, Homi, 89, 110, 111, 122 Bible, 62, 65, 66, 67 blacks: in Cable’s works, 99, 107, 115–16, 120, 121, 122–23; Chinese compared with, 148; and link between real property and regionalism, 121; and New Orleans history, 101, 102; stereotypes of, 32. See also Creoles; race; slavery; specific character Bloom, Robert (fictional character), 55–56 206 Index body, of ward bosses, 158–59, 168 Boelhower, William, 75, 133 Bohemians, in Riis’s works, 135, 139, 144 Boss, The (Lewis), 154, 156–60, 164–72, 173–77 boss, ward: body of, 158–59; as father, 170–71; and machine novels, 156; in Riis’s works, 152, 153, 156; typical day of, 172–73. See also Tammany; specific author or work Boston, Massachusetts, in Garland’s works, 46–47, 48 Boulay, Harvey, 162 bourgeois, 19, 118, 125, 142, 158, 166, 167, 179. See also middle class Bowden family reunion (fictional event), 25, 26–27, 28, 29 Bowlby, Rachel, 24 Boyesen, H. H., 8 Brace, Charles Loring, 126 Bras-Coupé (fictional character), 100, 102, 111–13, 114–17, 118, 120 Brodhead, Richard, 5, 14, 19, 99, 127 Brown, Bill, 41–42 Cable, George Washington: “The Freedman ’s Case in Equity” by, 122–23; The Grandissimes by, 14, 15, 98, 101–23; “The Silent South” by, 122, 123 California: American presence/involvement in, 82, 90; in Atherton’s works, 74–75, 79, 80–97; California: An Intimate History (Atherton), 89; Chinese in, 147, 148; as disputed product of national culture , 81; and East, 91, 96; exclusion in, 148; as land of plenty, 77; Magdaléna (fictional character) as representive of, 75, 80, 81, 82, 91–92, 93, 94, 95; national economy role of, 76; as new version of America, 76–78, 91, 92, 96; physical beauty of, 90–91; “primeval” existence of, 90, 91, 92; regeneration in, 96; as region, 75, 91; travel writing/letters about, 76–80; as “unhistoried,” 91; U.S. relationship to, 75, 76, 80, 91, 92 Californians, The (Atherton), 14, 15, 73–75, 76, 79, 80–97, 99 Camera Lucida (Barthes), 20 capital: in Atherton’s works, 83; in Cable’s works, 119; and characteristics of regional fiction, 17, 36, 38; in Frederic’s works, 41, 58–72...