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Index abolitionist movement,  Adams, Gleason R. W.,  Adams, Rachel,  Agrarian movement, , , –, , , –, , , , –; and race, –; Caroline Gordon’s critique of, ; I’ll Take My Stand, , –, ; Who Owns America?,  Alcott, Louisa May,  Alldregde, Eugene P., , –,  American exceptionalism,  Anderson, Benedict,  Andrews, William L.,  anti-Catholicism, , , –, , , – , , –, –, – anticonvent literature, ,  Aquinas, Thomas, , , n Arvin, Newton, n Bakhtin, Mikhail,  Baker, Houston A., Jr., n Baudelaire, Charles,  Baudrillard, Jean, , , –,  Bauer, Margaret D., n Beardsley, Aubrey, ,  Bell, Caryn Cossé,  Belloc, Hilaire,  Benjamin, Walter,  Birkett, Jennifer,  Borges, Jorge Luis,  Bowers (poet), –; ‘‘The Orphan of the Tombs,’’ –,   Bradford, M. E.,  Bradley, David,  Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr., –,  Brooks, Cleanth, –, n Brown, Ashley,  Browne, Jill Conner,  Brownson, Orestes,  Bush, George W.,  Butler, Judith,  Cable, George Washington, , , – , , , , , , n, n, n; ‘‘Posson Jone,’’ ; The Grandissimes, –, –, n; Madame Delphine, –, ,  Calhoun, John C.,  Calvin, John, ,  Campbell, Erin E., n Camus, Albert, , n capitalism, , , , , –, , ; and the recovery movement, ; and slavery, – Capote, Truman, – Carr, John C.,  Carr, Virginia Spencer, n Cash, W. J.,  Cather, Willa,  Catholic Revival,  Catholicism: aesthetics of, –, , , , , –, –, –; as ‘‘lifestyle,’’ , , ,  Index , –, –; as minority religion in the South, –, , n; as quintessentially southern religion, –, , –, –, , , ; and decadence, – , –, –, –; domestic comforts of, –, –, –; homoeroticism and, , , , –, –, –; Irish Jansensist influence on, , , ; mediated nature of, –; medievalism and, , –, –, –, – , –, –; miscegenation and, –, , –, –, , –, , –; syncretism in, , –; universalism of, , , . Catholic Worker movement, ,  Cheney, Brainard, , – Chesnutt, Charles W.,  Chesterton, G. K., ,  Cheung, Floyd D., –, , ,  Chopin, Kate, , , –, ; as decadent writer, , –; At Fault, ; The Awakening, , , –, ; commitment to heterosexuality of, , ; ‘‘An Egyptian Cigarette,’’ ;‘‘Lilacs,’’ –;‘‘Madame Célestin ’s Divorce,’’ ; realism of, –, –; relationship to Catholicism of, –; ‘‘Two Portraits: The Wanton and the Nun,’’ , –; A Vocation and a Voice (collection), ; ‘‘A Vocation and a Voice’’ (story), – Cisneros, Sandra, – Ciuba, Gary M., n civil rights movement, , , , , –, , , , – Civil War, , , , , , –, , , ,  Code Noir,  Codrescu, Andrei, ,  Cohn, Deborah H., n cold war, ,  Coleman, Edward Maceo,  Comte, August,  Conkin, Paul K., ,  consumerism, , , ,  convent stories, –, –, n Cotkin, George, , n Coughlin, Charles,  Crane, Hart, , ,  Dalcour, Pierre,  Davidson, Donals, , , n Davis, Thadious M., – Day, Dorothy, ,  decadence, , –, –; de- fined, –; infatuation with death in, , , , –. See also homoeroticism ; queer theory Dejean, Joan, n Delille, Henriette, n Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien, ,  Desmond, John F., n Diderot, Denis,  Distributism,  divine right of kings, ,  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, , ,  Douglas, Susan,  Drake, Robert, n Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, , , , – , , , n; ‘‘Sister Josepha ,’’ –; ‘‘The Stones of the Village,’’ – Dutch Catechism,  ecumenism, , ,  Egerton, John,  Elfenbein, Anna Shannon, n Ellis, Havelock, n Eliot, T. S., , – England, John, , – Epstein, Debbie,  ethnicity: Creole-French, , , , , , , , , n, n, n; Irish, , , –, , n; Latin American, – [18.191.88.249] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 16:16 GMT) Index  Evans, Augusta Jane, –, n existentialism, ,  Fabre, Michel, ,  Faulkner, William, , –; Absalom, Absalom!, –,  feminism, –, , ,, –, –, ,  Fichter, J. H.,  Fiedler, Leslie, –,  Filmer, Robert,  Fitzhugh, George, , , –, , , , , –, , , , –, , n Flagg, Fannie,  Flaubert, Gustave,  Foote, Shelby,  Forsyth, John, –,  Franchot, Jenny, –, , , n Frederic, Harold,  French Romanticism, ,  Fukuyama, Francis,  fundamentalism, , , ,  Galton, Francis,  Gandolfo, Anita J., ,  Garrison, William Lloyd,  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., – Gautier, Théophile,  Genovese, Eugene D., , , , , n gens de couleur libres, , , –, – , ; cultural achievements of, , ; legal status of, , , –; political stances of, –; relationship to other African-Americans, –, –; religious devotion of, ; sexual exploitation of, . See also miscegenation, plaçage, quadroon balls Gerard, Philip,  Giannone, Richard, n Giles, Paul, , , , , n Gillespie, Michael Patrick,  Gilman, Richard, n Glasgow, Joanne, – Gleeson-White, Sarah, n Goldwater, Barry,  Gordon, Caroline, –, , , –, –, , ; and the Agrarian movement, –; antifeminism of, , ; as mentor to Flannery O’Connor, , –, n; as mentor to Walker Percy, ; conversion to Catholicism of, , ; The Glory of Hera, –; interest in Jung of, –; The Malefactors, , –, , ; ‘‘The Presence,’’ –; The Strange Children, –, , ; theory of fiction of, –, –, ; ‘‘A Walk with the Accuser,’’ – Gottlieb, Robert, – Grammich, Clifford, n Gramsci, Antonio,  Gray, Richard, n, n Gregory XVI (pope), – Griffin, Susan, n Gretlund, Jan Nordby, n grotesque, southern, – Guillaume, Alfred J., Jr.,  Haddox, Thomas F., n Haley, Alex,  Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, n Hanson, Ellis, , –, ,  Harlem Renaissance,  Hartman, Saidiya V., n Hawkes, John, n Hawthorne, Nathaniel,  Hecker, Isaac,  heroism, –, –, –, , , ; and gender, –, – Hester, Betty, n Hillyer von Hoffman, Elinor, n Holditch, W. Kenneth, n Holmes, George Frederick, , , , –, ,   Index Holmes, Trevor, n homoeroticism, –, –, –, , –, , –. See also decadence; queer theory Horn, Jason Gary, n Huff, Peter,  Hull, Gloria T., n Huysmans, Joris-Karl, ,  Ignatiev, Noel,  immigration: Irish and German, , , , ; Latin American, – intentional fallacy, ,  Irish independence movement, –,  Jackson, Blyden, , n James, Henry,  Jameson, Fredric,  Jamestown, –,  Jansenism, , ,  Jim Crow laws,  John XXIII (pope), , ,  John Paul II (pope),  Jones, Anne Goodwyn, – Jones, Bob, III,  Jones, Gayl,  Jonza, Nancylee Novell,  Jung, C. F., – Kazan, Elia,  Kazin, Alfred, n Kennedy, John F., ,  Kenschaft, Lori J., – Kierkegaard, Søren, , , , , n, n King, Grace, , , , –, , n; ‘‘The Little Convent Girl,’’ –,  King, Martin Luther, Jr.,  King, Richard,  Know-Nothing Party, , , ,  Kreyling, Michael, , –, , , –, n, n Ku Klux Klan, , , , , ,  Labrie, Ross, n Ladd, Barbara,  L’album littéraire, , ,  language games...

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