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" Bret Harte : "
by Gary Scharnhorst.
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BL
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1004894
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b759264
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| Main Entry
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Scharnhorst, Gary.
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| Title & Author
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Bret Harte : : opening the American literary West /\ by Gary Scharnhorst.
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| Publication Statement
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Norman :: University of Oklahoma Press,, ©2000.
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| Series Statement
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The Oklahoma western biographies ;; v. 17
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xvi, 255 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm.
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080613254X
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: 9780806132549
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.
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| Contents
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"I am Fit for Nothing Else" -- The Overland Monthly: From "The Luck" to "The Prodigal" -- Mining the Slag Heap: The Commercialization of Local Color -- Popularizing the WestL: Lecture, Novel, Play, Pulp Fiction -- Crefeld, Glasgow, and the Literary Recuperation of the West -- Tailings from the Claim -- Epilogue: Played Out.
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"Gary Scharnhorst's biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a development in which Harte played a crucial role." "Harte's pioneering use of California local color in such stories as "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" challenged genteel assumptions about western writing and helped open eastern papers to contributions by Mark Twain and others. The popularity of Bret Harte's writings was driven largely by a literary market that his western stories helped create."
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"The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte's personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West."--Jacket.
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Harte, Bret,1836-1902-- Knowledge-- West (U.S.)
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Harte, Bret,1836-1902.
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Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
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Harte, Bret,1836-1902
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Harte, Bret.
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Authors, American-- 19th century, Biography.
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Western stories-- History and criticism.
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Authors, American.
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Literature.
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Western stories.
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West (U.S.), In literature.
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West United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.4
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B
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| LC Classification
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PS1833.S38 2000
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18.06bcl
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HT 5355rvk
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