PLOTTING THE GOLDEN WEST by Stephen Fender ( 9780521135719 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PLOTTING THE GOLDEN WEST
AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE RHETORIC OF THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL

By:

Stephen Fender

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521135710

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9780521135719

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 January, 2010

Pages:

256

Description:

An examination of the literary and cultural reaction to the Californian Gold Rush of 1849-50.

Synopsis:

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.

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