| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Hard Places"; 1: Claims and Speculations; 2: Mining and Writing; 3: Knowing the Mines "Interiorly"; 4: The Romance of Mining; 5: Sex Work; 6: "Talking Klondike"; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"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."--Project Muse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Mines and mineral resources in literature.
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Mineralogy in literature.
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Miners in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Mineralogy in literature
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Miners in literature
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Mines and mineral resources in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012014861 |
| ISBN |
9780826351418 |
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0826351417 |
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1283571188 |
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9781283571180 |
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9786613883636 |
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6613883638 |
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