Claims and Speculations: Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age

by Janet Floyd

Book Overview

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 as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826351395
• ISBN13: 9780826351395
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"