Regionalism And Naturalism

Plans of reconstruction, the transcontinental railroad, gilded age, and the struggles among the African-Americans, immigrant workers, and independent workers proved to be a period of trial and error. With the problems sometimes overbearing the solutions, regionalism and naturalism was born. Local color writing was influenced by the country’s rapid expansion and growth of industry. Bret Hare and Mark Twain were well known local colorists who wrote widely about the East, Midwest, and South which compelled readers to their works. Regionalist writer noted detailed information of ordinary people throughout the country and was the more recent since it focused on the everyday life. An example would be seen in Willa Cather’s writings