Literature of the California Gold Rush

Literature of the California Gold Rush Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • The California Gold Rush as a Basis for Literature
  • The Literature of the Mining Camps
• Criticism: Early California Gold Rush Fiction
  • Some Notes on California Gold Rush Fiction Before 1870
  • The Americanization of Arcadia: Images of Hispanic and Gold Rush California
• Criticism: Gold Rush Folklore And Legend
• The Rise Of Western Local Color
• Criticism: Social Relations And Social Change
  • Rewriting the Gold Rush: Twain, Harte and Homosociality
  • Epilogue: Telling Tales
• Further Reading