LOCAL COLOR QUARRELS

• Women Regionalists: The Limits of Local Color (Revisited)
• Authenticity & Performance Anxiety
• Genre Issues: What's in a Name?
• The Beginning of the End of Local Color?
  Hamlin Garland battles Mary Catherwood at the Chicago World's Fair

LITERARY AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT

• Timeline of Regional Texts: 1840-1910
  
• General Timeline of Literary History (still in the works)
  
• Timeline of Significant Events in 19th-Century America
  • Pre-1870
  • 1870-1879
  • 1880-1889
  • 1890-1899
  • 1900-1910
    
• An Essay on Early Tourism in the U.S.
  

REGIONS: Who's Who

• North
  • William Dean Howells
  • Philander Deming
       His melancholy tale, "Lost" is powerful and intriguing.
    
  • Rowland Robinson
  • Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
       Her novel Cape Cod Folks was one of the true "finds" in all my research. She was actually sued by the 'folks' in her autobiographical tale!
  • Alice Trumbull Slosson
  • Mary Wilkins Freeman
  • Rose Terry Cooke

  Midwest

  • Hamlin Garland
  • Caroline Kirkland
       As with much local color writing, A New Home, Who'll Follow? is a thinly disguised autobiography. Kirkland's husband moved his genteel wife and family to the sticks of Michigan; her account of the experience is ironic, funny, smart and complex.
    
  • Joseph Kirkland
       Caroline's son also tried his hand at local color writing, producing a number of texts which critics of American Literature have catagorized as naturalist in their views. I hope to include selections from 'Zury at some point in the future.
    
  • James Whitcomb Riley
       His house in Indiana has been preserved as a museum; for a vicarous trip you can visit their website. They have also included some samples of his poetry.
    
  • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • Edward Eggleston
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar

  
  South and Mid-Atlantic

  • Mary Noailles Murfree
  • Joel Chandler Harris
  • Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Thomas Nelson Page
  • John Fox Junior
  • James Lane Allen
  • Charles Waddell Chesnutt
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Constance Fenimore Woolson (also see the Midwest)
  • Ruth McEnery Stuart
  • Kate Chopin
  • Alice Dunbar Nelson
  • Grace King
  • George Washington Cable

  West

  • Joaquin Miller
  • Bret Harte
  • Mark Twain
  • Frederick Remington
  • Mary Hallock Foote
       Her tale, Maverick is a galloping read.
    
  • Charles Lummis
  • Zitkala Sa
  • Owen Wister
  • Mary Austin
  • Helen Hunt Jackson

Some Photos

LINKS: Related Literary Sites

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
   A-F | G-Q | R-Z