Claims and Speculations: Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age,Used

Claims and Speculations: Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age,Used

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Product 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 generatedthe 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. From the Back Cover 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. About the Author Janet Floyd is senior lecturer in American Studies at Kings College, London. She is also the author of Writing the Pioneer Woman and the coeditor of Domestic Space: Reading the NineteenthCentury Interior, The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions and Becoming Visible: Women's Presence in NineteenthCentury America.

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