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Plotting the Golden West
Stephen Fender
其他書名
American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 1981
主題
History / United States / 19th Century
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / American / Regional
ISBN
0521239249
9780521239240
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lXth7G-6JR8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of 1849-1850, not in terms of what happened (a subject much covered by historians) 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.