Bret Harte : opening the American literary West
"Gary Scharnhorst's biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a development in which Harte played a crucial role." "Harte's pioneering use of California local color in such stories as "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" challenged genteel assumptions about western writing and helped open eastern papers to contributions by Mark Twain and others. The popularity of Bret Harte's writings was driven largely by a literary market that his western stories helped create."
Oklahoma western biographies, v. 17
Biography
xvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780806132549, 080613254X
43487254
"I am Fit for Nothing Else"
The Overland Monthly: From "The Luck" to "The Prodigal"
Mining the Slag Heap: The Commercialization of Local Color
Popularizing the WestL: Lecture, Novel, Play, Pulp Fiction
Crefeld, Glasgow, and the Literary Recuperation of the West
Tailings from the Claim
Epilogue: Played Out