Local Color Fiction
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- Literary style associated with Regionalism that developed in the 1860s and flourished until the 1890s.
- While using fictive plots, local colorists wrote realistically of the landscape, customs, language and habits of particular areas.
- L.C.F. is especially associated with the novel and short story, although poets also used it.
- The term 'local colorist' is sometimes used unfairly as a synonym for a minor writer.
- Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Kate Chopin are among those most significant for L.C.F.
