Local Color Fiction

From Unawiki

• 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.