LOCAL COLOR
19th-century Regional
Writing in the United States
IN RANDOM ORDER:Donna Campbell, author of Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997) has given us another great resource in her Local Color Fiction 1865-1895 site. She has an excellent bibliography for literary scholars using the web.
[ http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/lcolor.html ] LEGACY'S 19th Century Women Writers website is back on line! Of particular interest to Regionalists are a number of etext versions of Constance Fenimore Woolson's short fiction. You'll find King David, Peter the Parson, Jeannette, Rodman the Keeper, and In Sloane Street.
[ http://www.libfind.unl.edu/legacy/legacy.htm ] The Celebration of Women Writers site provides many great new resources, including ambitious projects for posting etexts and links to a very long list of women. It can be searched by country, by century, or alphabetically!
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmbt/women/writers.html] For those folks interested in Bret Harte and matters 'western,' don't miss the handsome History of San Francisco site.
[http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/index.html] The good folks at Bibliomania have posted a 1920s survey of American Literature. These older studies are frequently very helpful in reconstructing a representative portrait of Local Color writing as a social and political enterprise. See A Student's History of American Literature, especially chapters six and seven which take up Local Color writing--both prose and poetry. This old textbook also includes a helpful A Chronology of American Literature (1836-1880).
[http://www.mk.net/~dt/Bibliomania/Reference/Simonds/SHAL/index.html ] Daniel Anderson from the University of Texas is responsible for this beautifully designed resource for American Literature lovers. Included you will find lots of great interactive texts featuring topical sections on subjects like "the South" and "War." To go directly to the full list of on-line stories and poems, back up to the homepage.
[ http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/reader/index.html ] Louisiana State University offers you a comprehensive list of Louisiana writers!!.
[ http://www.lib.lsu.edu/la/a.html ] Dr. Giacobazzi has done a great job with this (bulky) but oddly appealing jaunt from the 1890s to the present. He has lots of great photos and plenty of intriguing links. For example, you can go visit the home of Joel Chandler Harris, the popularizer of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit tales.
[ http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/fgamlit2.htm ] On a more specific but equally entertaining note, check out a site devoted to early Oregon writers. They were quite a wild bunch. You begin with Sam Simpson, the state's first poet laureate, and go from there.
[ http://www.teleport.com/~samc/Curtis/1-Simpson.html ] Dr. Reuben has created an on-line textbook for American Literature, including a portrait gallery!! He covers a lot of ground; I think you'll find his site pretty handy and painlessly informative.
[ http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/home.htm ] This is the most thorough reference site I have seen anywhere! It is slow to load, but contains 6 tons of information. Everyone interested in American Literature should exchange links with this amazing page.
[ http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit-G.html ] Nineteenth-century magazines are particularly helpful in tracking down the original contours of regional writing in the United States. For searchable page by page GIFS of lots of great old periodicals, including Harper's New Monthly Magazine from 1850 to 1899, visit the handsome Making of America site at Cornell.
[ http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html ] For history buffs, Rutgers maintains a GREAT resource list . This is the place to bookmark for beginning any research project or time-surfing adventure.
[ http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/amhist.html ] P.S. Here are some old but good resources for web publishing.
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