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Chapter 7 - Local Color and Regionalism

from Part II - Literary Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2019

By
Joseph A. Alvarez
Edited by
John Bird
John Bird
Affiliation:
Winthrop University
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Summary

Mark Twain can be seen as one of the writers of local color and regional literature during his time. His Western writings and his evocation of the Mississippi River make him part of the movement of local color and regionalism that were important as realism emerged as a literary period. Bret Harte in the West, Harriet Beecher Stowe in New England, and Kate Chopin in Louisiana are just a few examples of the writers in this important trend.

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Mark TwainSamuel Clemenslocal colorregionalism
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Mark Twain in Context , pp. 68 - 76
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Blair, Walter. Mark Twain and Huck Finn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.Google Scholar
Campbell, Donna M. “Regionalism and Local Color Fiction, 1865–1895.” Literary Movements. https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/lcolor.html.Google Scholar
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Marx, Leo. “The Pilot and the Passenger.” In Mark Twain: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Smith, Henry Nash. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963. 47–63.Google Scholar

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