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Literature: Local Color and Realism

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From: American Eras
Date: 19970101
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Literature: Local Color and Realism

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Regional Fiction. After the Civil War local-color fiction gained widespread popularity in America. Bret Harte (1836-1902) acquainted the country with the western miner in stories such as “ The Luck of Roaring Camp ” (1868) and “ The Outcasts of Poker Flats ” (1869), while in the late 1870s the Atlanta Constitution began publishing the dialect stories of plantation life in the Deep South that Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) later collected as Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880). George Washington Cable ...

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