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Book Title
Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West (The Oklahoma W...
ISBN
080613254X
EAN
9780806132549
Date of Publication
20001015
Release Title
Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West (The Oklahoma W...
Artist
Scharnhorst, Gary
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10
080613254X
ISBN-13
9780806132549
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038685504

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
Bret Harte : Opening the American Literary West
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Subject
United States / 19th Century, Literary, American / General, American / Regional
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Gary Scharnhorst
Series
The Oklahoma Western Biographies Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
00-022412
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
17
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.4 B
Synopsis
Bret Harte was the best-known and highest-paid writer in America in the early 1870s, yet his vexed attempts to earn a living by his pen led to the failure of his marriage and, in 1878, his departure for Europe. 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. The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte's personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West., The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte's personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West.
LC Classification Number
PS1833.S38 2000

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