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The local color writing that the Encyclopedia Britannica discusses is, for the most part, literature in the common sense of the term. Fiction writers like Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, O. Henry, and Mark Twain have been identified within this tradition.
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12. Read literary historians (Fred Lewis Pattee, V. L. Parrington, Robert Spillers) for their discussions of local color and regional writing. Analyze any story in the text by Jewett, Chopin, Freeman, Austin, Chesnutt, Harte, Garland, or Oskison in light of the historical commentary.
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Although local color writing encompassed a number of regions, including New England and the Midwest, southern local color had about it a special quality—the mystique of the Lost Cause. In many stories written about life in the antebellum South there was an idealization of the way things were before the war;
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docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/regionalism.html
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The development of a number of large-circulation, well-paying magazines in New York after the Civil War and an intense interest in things regional encouraged the local color movement, which Bret Harte ... Clifford Dowdey, who had equal success in magazine editing, publishing historical novels, and writing Civil War histories;
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docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/localcolor.html
docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/localcolor.html
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American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) ... 5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Introduction to American Local Color Writing, March 28, 2004 ... This item: American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth Ammons...
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All written materials here--unless otherwise specified-- are taken from Dottie Webb's dissertation "Particular Places: Regional Writing in the United States, 1880-1910," for the doctoral program in English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan.
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www.dotwebb.com/regional_writing/
www.dotwebb.com/regional_writing/
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it was deemed mainly of narrow/local interest. Local Color Writing: ... Unlike regionalist writing, the narrator in local color tends to be an outsider that focuses on the idiosyncratic, so most narrators are third person or first person from an outsider s point of view as a limited omniscient, or an omniscient narrator...
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www.wtamu.edu/~dwerden/AmericanRegionalism/index.htm
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Regionalist or local color writing focuses on a particular setting and segment of society—often mimicking in print their manner of speech (their vernacular), their class system, and other social rules particular to the region, such as specific roles or assumptions for women or children (see the first passage in...
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Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color; The Literary Context of The Awakening ... The writing was also marked by a type of xenophobia. Protestant America was faced with an influx of Catholic refugees from the Napoleonic Wars, of Asian workers who constructed the railroads, and the lingering issue of Native Americans.
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