Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

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Abolitionism, 7, 26, 48, 50–52, 54, 55, 179, 202, 231, 241n15, 243n8, 260n37 Adams, Henry: Democracy, 168–173; Esther, 169; and Richard Taylor, 166 Adams, Richard, 134–135, 255n36 Africa, 11, 38, 39, 56, 209, 210–212, 232, 233, 262n15 African American (race) question, 5, 7, 12, 23–70, 203–224, 232–234, 257n3. See also Ku Klux Klan; Love, Nat; plantation tradition; slave narratives; slavery; South question African Methodist Church, 7 Allen, Bishop Richard, statue of, 7 American Historical Association, 10, 74, 228 American Press Association: “Chapters of Forecasts,” 230 Anderson, Benedict, 8–9 Anderson, Charles, 174, 259n34 Andrews, William, 54, 247n59 Arac, Jonathan, 41, 48 Arvin, Newton, 205 Aunt Jemima, 232 Autobiography, 50–52, 54–55, 106, 246n42 Badger, Reid, 232–233, 239n2 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 20, 39–40, 239n5, 245n33. See also heteroglossia Barrish, Philip, 18, 242n35 Bederman, Gail, 14, 230, 262n12 Beecher, Henry Ward, 5 Bellamy, Francis, 228 Bender, Bert, 134–135 Bennett, Paula Bernat, 155 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 3, 240n5–6. See also jeremiad Berge, William, 11, 242n26 Bertholdi, Auguste, 11 Billington, Ray, 74 Black Hills, gold rush in, 5 Blair, Hugh, 59, 60 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 218 Blight, David W., 26, 165, 258n9 Boisseau, T. J., 232 Booth, John Wilkes, 259n36 Boston, 166, 170, 176, 178 Index 306 Index Bridgman, Richard, 19 Brown, Olympia, 113–114, 252n1 Buck, Paul, 180, 188 Buffalo Bill, 74, 75, 233, 248n8. See also Wild West shows Bumppo, Natty, 74, 75 Burnham, Daniel, 229 Burton, Maria Amparo Ruiz de, The Squatter and the Don, 93 Butterfield, Stephen, 51 Cable, George Washington, 20, 63; The Grandissimes, 204–218, 223–224; The Grandissimes manuscript comments, 218–223; “Madame Delphine,” 203– 204; “My Politics,” 206; The Silent South, 205 California, 82, 89, 92, 93, 97, 100 Cary, Richard, 192–193, 260n46 Cassatt, Mary, 231 Cawelti, John, 227, 229 Centennial Exposition (1876), ix–x, 1–8, 10, 13, 115, 161, 226, 230, 231, 233 Chase, Richard, 242n35 Cheney, O. A.,“The Female Debating Society ,” 114–115 Chesnutt, Charles W.: “The Fall of Adam,” 62–63; “The Goophered Grapevine,” 63–69; journals, 58–61; “Uncle Peter’s House,” 61–62; “The Wife of His Youth,” 69–70 Chief Logan, 249n29 Child, Lydia Maria, 240n13; A Romance of the Republic, 206 Christmann, James, 235 Civil War, ix, 8, 10–11, 25, 35, 65, 74, 79, 119, 161–164, 166, 171–172; 176–177, 184–185, 188–194, 198; memorials, 9– 10; and millennialism, 3; and postbellum consensus, 4. See also Booth, John Wilkes; Lincoln, Abraham; veterans of Civil War Cleveland, Grover, 11, 227–228 Columbian Exposition (1893), 10, 224, 226–235 Compromise of 1877, 5, 165 Conn, Steven, 240n4, 240n9, 262n17 Consensus, 4–5, 8–10, 12, 13, 15, 16–17, 237, 240n6, 241n21, 242n30 Constitution (U.S.), 12 Conversion narrative, 162, 166–179, 181– 182, 199–200, 231, 258n17. See also Reconciliation ; Romance of reunion Cooke, John Esten, The Virginia Bohemians , 167 Cooke, Rose Terry,“Mrs. Flint’s Married Experience,” 126–130 Corporations, 9, 11, 12–13, 14, 242n30, 262n14. See also labor Cowan, Tynes, 63 Creoles, 203–223 Crummell, Alexander, 23–25, 26 Cultural mediation, 78, 109–110, 249n17–18 Custer, George Armstrong, 5. See also Little Big Horn Dawes Act, 92, 111, 224, 250n35 Day, Roger Sherman: on Sarah Winnemucca, 111 Dean, Sharon, 139, 260n41 “Declaration of Women’s Rights,” 6. See also suffrage, women’s Decoration (Memorial) Day, 162, 165, 182, 240n8 De Cussac, Etienne, 205 DeForest, John W., Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty, 163 Department of the Interior, Federal, 5, 6 Dialect, 17, 20, 23–70, 98, 129–130, 131, 145– 146, 153, 175, 177, 190, 199, 204, 207–208, 217, 250n41, 261n5 Diggers, 82, 84, 249n25 Dime novels, 10, 74–75, 248n8 Dippie, Brian, 75, 76 Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 70, 230 Donaldson, Susan, 14, 117–118, 239n5 Index 307 Donovan, Josephine, 127, 133 Douglass, Frederick, 257n65; at Centennial Exposition, 7; at Columbian Exposition , 232, 233–234; debate with Alexander Crummell, 23–25, 26; exchange with Sojourner Truth, 246n50; Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 50, 52–58 Du Bois, W. E. B., 70; Black Reconstruction in America, 243n6, 244n21 Edel, Leon, 139 Elkins, Stanley, 25, 243n4 Elliott, Michael, 14, 239n5 Evans, William, 207 Fetterley, Judith, and Marjorie Pryse, 130, 133, 254n24–25 Fick, Thomas, and Eva Gold, 205 The First Century of the Republic, 2 Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, 41 Florida, 180 Founding Fathers, 5...