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Bret Harte - Opening the American Literary West (Paperback)
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Bret Harte - Opening the American Literary West (Paperback)
Series: The Oklahoma Western Biographies
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Bret Harte was the best-known and highest-paid writer in America in
the early 1870s, yet his vexed attempts to earn a living by his pen
led to the failure of his marriage and, in 1878, his departure for
Europe. 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. 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.
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