Literature of the California Gold Rush - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Conner, William F. “The Euchring of Tennessee: A Reëxamination of Bret Harte's ‘Tennessee's Partner.’” In Studies in Short Fiction 17, No. 2 (Spring 1980): 113-20.
Finds Harte's story “Tennessee's Partner” an example of the author's skillful use of “California wit,” a type of American humor that mixes irreverence with deliberate sentimentality, in order to mock traditional morality.
Hale, Douglas, ed. “The Artist as an Argonaut: Gold Rush Letters of Cyrus Worth Pease.” In Cimarron Review 5 (September 1968): 23-48.
Reprints letters written by Cyrus Worth Pease, a New England artist, to his lady friend Lucy Crane, both during and after Pease's 17,000-mile-long ocean voyage to gold rush country. Includes a brief biography of Pease.
Hume, Charles V. “They Came to See the Elephant.” In Theatre West: Image and Impact, edited by Dunbar H. Ogden,...
[The entire page is 383 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Related Topics
