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02893aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 03D14C282FC611E7A3652FCCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170503010126 008 160516t20162000okuac b s001 0beng d 020 $a 9780806153513 020 $a 0806153512 035 $a (OCoLC)949866105 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d TXI $d OCLCO $d IQU $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NUI $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-usp-- 050 4 $a PS1833 S38x 2016 100 1 $a Scharnhorst, Gary, $e author. 245 10 $a Bret Harte : $b opening the American literary West / $c by Gary Scharnhorst. 264 1 $a Norman : $b University of Oklahoma Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xvi, 256 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a The Oklahoma western biographies ; $v v. 17 500 $a Originally published in hardback: 2000. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index. 505 0 $a "I am fit for nothing else" -- The Overland Monthly : from "The luck" to "The prodigal" -- Mining the slag heap : the commercialization of local color -- Popularizing the West : lecture, novel, play, pulp fiction -- Crefeld, Glasgow, and the literary recuperation of the West -- Tailings from the claim -- Epilogue: Played out. 520 $a "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 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 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 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 personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West"--Publisher's website, viewed November 7, 2016. 600 10 $a Harte, Bret, $d 1836-1902. 600 10 $a Harte, Bret, $d 1836-1902 $x Knowledge and learning. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Western stories $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a West (U.S.) $x In literature. 830 0 $a Oklahoma western biographies ; $v v. 17. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717030402.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118015815.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=03D14C282FC611E7A3652FCCDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search