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Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail

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This book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of 1849–1850, not in terms of what happened but in terms of how people of various levels of sophistication wrote about it. Drawing on a variety of sources - diaries, journals, letters, and contemporary journalism - Dr Fender explores how both amateur and professional writers attempted to come to terms with the physical wilderness of the transcontinental landscape and the social wilderness of early California. Dr Fender has produced an intriguing and highly readable book, which should prove fascinating not only to a wide range of students in the field of American studies but also to non-specialists who are interested in nineteenth-century American literary and cultural history.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Release: February 26, 1982

ISBN 13: 9780521135719

Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail

0/5 ( ratings)

This book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of 1849–1850, not in terms of what happened but in terms of how people of various levels of sophistication wrote about it. Drawing on a variety of sources - diaries, journals, letters, and contemporary journalism - Dr Fender explores how both amateur and professional writers attempted to come to terms with the physical wilderness of the transcontinental landscape and the social wilderness of early California. Dr Fender has produced an intriguing and highly readable book, which should prove fascinating not only to a wide range of students in the field of American studies but also to non-specialists who are interested in nineteenth-century American literary and cultural history.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Release: February 26, 1982

ISBN 13: 9780521135719

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