American Literature
their social class, to their own past. Class is important; the novel has traditionally served the interests and aspirations of an insurgent middle class.
Events will usually be plausible. Realistic novels avoid the sensational, dramatic elements of naturalistic novels and romances. Diction is natural
vernacular, not heightened or poetic; tone may be comic, satiric, or matteroffact. Objectivity in presentation becomes increasingly important: overt
authorial comments or intrusions diminish as the century progresses. Interior or psychological realism a variant form.
In literature, regionalism or local color refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features including characters, dialects, customs, history,
and landscape of a particular region. American Literary Regionalism has been the subject of scholarship for the past several decades and has
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