Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Led-Horse Claim
Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Led-Horse Claim. A Romance of a Mining Camp
Author: Mary Hallock FootePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385338417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Led-horse claim
Author: Mary Hallock FooteClaims and Speculations
Author: Janet FloydPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826351395
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song. Floyd begins by considering some of the grand narratives the industry has generated. She goes on to discuss particular places and the distinctive work they generated--the short fictions of the California Gold Rush, the Sagebrush journalism of Nevada's Comstock Lode, Leadville romance, and the popular culture of the Klondike. With excursions to Canada, South Africa, and Australia, Floyd looks at how the experience of a destructive and chaotic industry produced a global literature.
The Reader's Digest of Books
Author: Helen Rex KellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927
Author: Nina BaymPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252078845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. Nina Baym mined literary and cultural histories, anthologies, scholarly essays, catalogs, advertisements, and online resources to debunk critical assumptions that women did not publish about the West as much as they did about other regions. Elucidating a substantial body of nearly 650 books of all kinds by more than 300 writers, Baym reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves. Baym accounts for a wide range of genres and geographies, affirming that the literature of the West was always more than cowboy tales and dime novels. Nor did the West consist of a single landscape, as women living in the expanses of Texas saw a different world from that seen by women in gold rush California. Although many women writers of the American West accepted domestic agendas crucial to the development of families, farms, and businesses, they also found ways to be forceful agents of change, whether by taking on political positions, deriding male arrogance, or, as their voluminous published works show, speaking out when they were expected to be silent.
Soft Canons
Author: Karen L. KilcupPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587292874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Recognizing that masculine literary tradition can include marginalized male writers as well as canonized female writers and that traditions themselves change over time, the essays in this insightful and coherent collection also explore the investment of the writers, as well as ninetieth- and twentieth-century readers, in canon creation. As it reconstructs conversations between these earlier authors and initiates new dialogues for today’s readers, Soft Canons offers provocative reconceptualizations of American literary and cultural history.
The Wheelman
Author: Samuel Sidney McClurePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cycling
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Synopses of noted books. General index
Author: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthologies
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Author: