Claims and speculations : mining and writing in the Gilded Age /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Floyd, Janet (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Mines and mineral resources in literature.
Mineralogy in literature.
Miners in literature.
Minéralogie dans la littérature.
Mineurs dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Mineralogy in literature
Miners in literature
Mines and mineral resources in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Hard Places"; 1: Claims and Speculations; 2: Mining and Writing; 3: Knowing the Mines "Interiorly"; 4: The Romance of Mining; 5: Sex Work; 6: "Talking Klondike"; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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