Outsider status, especially multiple social marginalities, usually constitutes a burden. Certain combinations can be advantageous for cultural producers, however, especially when geographic marginality is part of the mix. The Local Color movement demonstrates the outsider’s edge. In mid‐nineteenth century in America, print technology, reduced postal rates, and mass literacy led to the golden age of magazines. Their readers sought stories about the regional cultures that were disappearing in an industrializing nation. Local Color—fiction about places outside the northeast cultural heartland—met this demand. Local Color authors shared outsider identities – geography, gender, and sexuality—that characterized and shaped the movement. Comparison with authors in the adjacent genres of Bestselling, Sentimental, and The Atlantic Monthly fiction reveals that multiple outsiderness (1) was not typical for authors of the period, and (2) advantaged women from the geographic periphery, especially those with unconventional sexual careers.

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局外人的优势：本地色彩运动中的地理，性别和性取向

局外人的身份，特别是多重社会边缘地位，通常构成负担。但是，某些组合对于文化生产者可能是有利的，特别是当地理边缘化是组合的一部分时。本地色彩运动展示了局外人的优势。在19世纪中叶，美国的印刷技术，降低的邮寄费率和大众素养导致了杂志的黄金时代。他们的读者寻求有关在一个工业化国家中消失的区域文化的故事。本地色彩-有关东北文化中心地区以外地方的小说-满足了这一需求。“本地色彩”作者分享了局外人身份-地理，性别和性取向-表征并塑造了运动。与畅销，感伤，