
Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail
by Stephen Fender
Title:
Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail
Author:
Stephen Fender
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:
9780521135719
EAN:
9780521135719
Classifications:
Literature: history and criticism
Weight (g):
514
Dimensions (mm):
151 x 229 x 19
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.












