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Website
University of North Carolina

Unc: Literature in the American South: Regionalism

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill site provides a wonderful explanation of regionalism and local color as it applies to literature. There is a lot of other good information about Southern Literature at this site!
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Unit Plan
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Rise of Realism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides a wealth of information about the period of American literature from 1860-1914. There are eight good articles discussing the movements of realism, regionalism, and naturalism, the rise of black American literature,...
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Handout
Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements: Local Color Fiction, 1865 1895

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Washington State University provides a good look at the regionalism and local color of American literature from 1865-1895. A definition is included, practitioners, characteristics, and techniques. There are many links to...
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: P2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes information of regionalism in poetry located in section X 'Later Poets'. Check out 1.Poets of East and West 5. The Middle...
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eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Red Hunters and the Animal People

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Charles Alexander Eastman's Red Hunters And The Animal People has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Handout
Other

Z Publishing: Bret Harte (1836 1902)

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site on Bret Harte, a Western storyteller during the Gilded Age. Some links may no longer work, but there is still ample material.