Claims and Speculations

Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age

By Janet Floyd
Published by UNM Press
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This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as Mark Twain, Mary Hallock Foote, Bret Harte, and Jack London within the context of writing and representation produced by people involved in the industry: miners and journalists, as well as writers of folklore and song.

About The Author

Janet Floyd

Janet Floyd is a professor of American literature and culture at King's College, London. She is also the author of Writing the Pioneer Woman and the coeditor of Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior; The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions; and Becoming Visible: Women's Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America.

Product Details

  • Publisher: UNM Press (November 1, 2020)
  • Length: 196 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780826351401

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Its brisk, readable prose and compelling excerpts offer an engaging read from cover to cover. Most provocatively, Claims and Speculations also makes a case for dethroning realism and naturalism as the favored literary expressions of an industrializing, international economy in the late nineteenth century.--Journal of American Studies

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Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age

By Janet Floyd
Published by UNM Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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