Regional Writing

Regional Writing

Bret Harte
Edward Eggleston
Lew Wallace
Sidney Lanier
Joel Chandler Harris
George Washington Cable

Bret Harte (1836-1902)

  1. Born in .

  2. The family moved to in 1853.

  3. Harte taught for a while, and also worked in the mining industry.

  4. The weekly newspaper Northern Californian was Harte's first exposure to journalism, editing, and writing.

  5. : Harte worked as a typesetter and contributed poems, articles, and short stories for the journal The Golden Era.

  6. Much of his work was based on life in the Californian mining camps.

Harte cont.

  1. Editor of the literary journal The Overland Monthly where his famous stories of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1870) were published. They brought him widespread fame. Mark Twain learned the newspaper world from him.

  2. Plain Language from Truthful James (1870) followed.

  3. He and his family decided to head east again and settled in . Atlantic Monthly had contracted him for a year's worth of writing with an advance of $10,000.

Harte and Twain in 1876

Harte cont.

Harte mastered the genre of gold rush fiction, capturing the corruption and greed of the wild new frontier lands.

  1. Drift from (1878),

  2. Poetical Works (1880),

  3. In the Carquinez Woods (1883),

  4. Maruja (1885),

  5. Ward of the (1890),

  6. Under the Redwoods (1901)

Harte cont.

His stories served as the prototypes of all the “Westerns” with all the stock characters:

  1. the pretty schoolmistress,

  2. the sheriff and his posse,

  3. the bad man,

  4. the gambler,

  5. the heroic stage driver,

  6. the harlot with the heart of gold

Edward Eggleston
(1837-1902)

  1. Born in Indiana.

  2. A Bible agent and Methodist preacher.

  3. Editor of the National Sunday School Teacher and other newspapers.

  4. In 1880 Eggleston began to focus on historical studies.

  5. The Beginners of a Nation (1896) and The Transit of Civilization (1901)

  6. Planned a series titled History of Life in the United States; Important as pioneer studies in social history.

  7. The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1871), one of the first novels to exploit the dialect and local color of the .

Lew Wallace (1827-1905)

  1. Born in Indiana.

  2. Served as an officer in the Mexican War (1846-1848) and the American Civil War (1861-1865).

  3. Governor of the of from 1878 to 1881 and minister to from 1881 to 1885.

  4. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) won him a worldwide reputation. A play (1899) and two motion pictures (1926 and 1959) have been based on the book.

  5. The Fair God (1873)

  6. The Prince of (1893).

Sidney Lanier
(1842-1881)

  1. Born in , , and educated at .

  2. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War.

  3. 1873 he became a flutist in the Peabody Symphony Orchestra of Baltimore, Maryland, (a musical prodigy).

  4. 1879 he was appointed lecturer in English at .

Lanier cont.

  1. His poetry is noted for its musical quality and its indictment of the social and economic evils in the South.

  2. His best-known poems:
    “Corn” (1875), “The Symphony” (1875), “Song of the Chattahoochee” (1877), “The Revenge of Hamish” (1878), “The Marshes of Glynn” (1879), and “A Ballad of Trees and the Master” (1880).

  3. Science of English Verse (1880), a study of the relationship between poetry and music.

Joel Harris
(1848-1908)

  1. Born in

  2. Worked for different newspapers in and .

  3. Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880),

  4. Nights with Uncle Remus (1883),

  5. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches (1887),

  6. Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892),

  7. Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (1906).

  8. Harris was one of the first American authors to use dialect.

  9. An important record of black oral folktales in the South.

George Washington Cable
(1844-1925)

  1. Born in .

  2. Served in the Confederate army
    during the American Civil War
    (1861-1865).

  3. Old Creole Days (1879),

  4. The Creoles of (1884),

  5. The Silent South (1885),

  6. The Negro Question (1890),

  7. The Cavalier (1901),

  8. The Flower of the Chapdelaines (1918).

  9. The folkways of the French speaking Negroes, the patois of the ruling class, the Acadians.

Cable and Twain


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