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Selected Bibliography on Bret Harte

Atkinson, F.G. "Bret Harte: A New Letter." Notes and Queries 21 (1974): 28-29.

Barnett, Linda Diz. Bret Harte: A Reference Guide. Boston: Hall, 1980.

Barnett, Linda D. "Bret Harte: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Comment." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 5 (1972): 189-320.

---. "Bret Harte: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Comment--Part Two: 1905-1971." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 5 (1972): 331-484.

---. "The Critics of Bret Harte: An Annotated Bibliography." Dissertation Abstracts International 33 (1972): 1713A(So.

Boggan, J. R. "The Regeneration of 'Roaring Camp'." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 22.3 (1967): 271-80.

Booth, Bradford A. "Bret Harte Goes East: Some Unpublished Letters." American Literature19.4 (1948): 318-35.

---. "Unpublished Letters of Bret Harte." American Literature 16.2 (1944): 131-42.

Buckland, Roscoe L. "Jack Hamlin: Bret Harte's Romantic Rogue." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 111-22.

Burton, Linda. "For Better or for Worse, Tennessee and His Partner: A New Approach to Bret Harte." Arizona Quarterly 36 (1980): 211-16.

Busch, Frieder. "'Wir': Èuberlegungen Zu Bret Hartes Einfuhrung Einer Neuen Perspektive." Geschichtlichkeit Und Neuanfang Im Sprachlichen Kunstwerk: Studien Zur Englischen Philologie Zu Ehren Von Fritz W. Schulze. Ed. Peter --Mèuller Erlebach, Wolfgang G. --Reuter, Klaus. Tèubingen: Narr, 1981. 179-89.

Carranco, Lynwood. "Bret Harte in Union (1857-1860)." California Historical Quarterly: Journal of the California Historical Society 45 (1966): 99-112.

Cevasco, G. A., and Richard Harmond. "Bret Hart to Robert Roosevelt on Two Men of Sandy Bar: A Newly Discovered Letter." American Literary Realism 21.1 (1988): 58-62.

Clark, Michael. "Bret Harte's 'the Outcasts of Poker Flat' and the Donner Pass Tragedy." Short Story 1.2 (1993): 49-56.

Cohen, Norman. "Bill Mason, Bret Harte, and Charlie Poole." JEMF Quarterly 10 (1974): 74-78.

Conner, William F. "The Euchring of Tennessee: A Reexamination of Bret Harte's 'Tennessee's Partner'." Studies in Short Fiction 17 (1980): 113-20.

Duckett, Margaret. "Bret Harte's Portrayal of Half-Breeds." American Literature 25.2 (1953): 193-212.

---. Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1964.

---. "Plain Language from Bret Harte." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 11.4 (1957): 241-60.

Murphy, Francis, ed. "The End of a Friendship: Two Unpublished Letters from Twain to Howells About Bret Harte." The New England Quarterly 58.1 (1985): 87-91.

Engler, Bernd. "'Grandeur, Sublimity, and the Heroic Attitudes of Western Nature': Zu Den Kulturellen Voraussetzungen Von Bret Hartes Kritik an Romantischen Naturkonzeptionen." Das Natur/Kultur-Paradigma in Der Englischsprachigen Erzèahlliteratur Des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts: Festschrift Zum 60. Geburtstag Von Paul Goetsch. Ed. Konrad --Mèuller Gross, Kurt --Winkgens, Meinhard. Tèubingen: Narr, 1994. 237-57.

Essmann, Helga. "Bret Hartes 'the Luck of Roaring Camp'." Die Literarische Èubersetzung-Der Lange Schatten Kurzer Geschichten: Amerikanische Kurzprosa in Deutschen Èubersetzungen. Ed. Armin Paul Frank. Gèottinger Beitrèage Zur Internationalen Èubersetzungsforschung. Berlin: Schmidt, 1989. 55-60.

---. "'Zeit' Im Èubersetzerischen Normenkonflikt: Mythische Zeitlosigkeit in 'the Luck of Roaring Camp' Und Ausgewèahlten Èubersetzungen." Die Literarische Èubersetzung-Der Lange Schatten Kurzer Geschichten: Amerikanische Kurzprosa in Deutschen Èubersetzungen. Ed. Armin Paul Frank. Gèottinger Beitrèage Zur Internationalen Èubersetzungsforschung. Berlin: Schmidt, 1989. 134-51.

Floyd, Janet. "Mining the West: Bret Harte and Mary Hallock Foote." Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Ed. Karen L. Kilcup. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 1999. 202-18.

Frank, Armin Paul, and Helga Essmann. "'the Luck of Roaring Camp': Bret Harte's Epyllion of an American New Beginning." Amerikastudien/American Studies 32.2 (1987): 123-33.

Gale, Robert L. Nineteenth-Century American Western Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; V. 186. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.

Gardner, Joseph H. "Bret Harte and the Dickensian Mode in America." Canadian Review of American Studies 2 (1971): 89-101.

Gates, W. B. "Bret Harte and Shakespeare." South Central Bulletin 20.4 (1960): 29-33.

Giorcelli, Cristina. "Joyce and Harte: Their Gabriel Conroys." Classic Joyce. Ed. Franca (ed. and foreword) Ruggieri. Joyce Studies in Italy. Rome, Italy: Bulzoni, 1999. 401-16.

Glover, Donald E. "A Reconsideration of Bret Harte's Later Work." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 143-51.

Hall, Roger. "Annie Pixley, Kate Mayhew, and Bret Harte's 'M'liss'." American Transcendental Quarterly 11.4 (1997): 167-83.

Hansen, Klaus P. "Francis Bret Harte: Ironie Und Konvention." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 9.1 (1984): 23-37.

Harte, Bret, and Gary Scharnhorst. Bret Harte's California: Letters to the Springfield Republican and Christian Register, 1866-67. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990.

---. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.

---. Selected Letters of Bret Harte. Literature of the American West ; V. 1. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

Harte, Bret, Gary Scharnhorst, and NetLibrary Inc. "Selected Letters of Bret Harte". Norman, 1997. Bibliographic record display

Henrickson, Gary P. "Author, Author: Mark Twain and His Collaborators." North Dakota Quarterly 69.1 (2002): 156-65.

Hudson, Roy F. "The Contributions of Bret Harte to American Oratory." Western American Literature 2 (1967): 213-22.

Hug, William J. "Mcteague as Metafiction? Frank Norris' Parodies of Bret Harte and the Dime Novel." Western American Literature 26.3 (1991): 219-28.

Hutchinson, E. R. "Harte's 'Tennessee's Partner'." Explicator 22 (1963): Item 10.

Kristal, Efraín. "Bret Harte, Ricardo Palma: Recreadores Del Pasado Americano." Texto Social: Estudios Pragmáticos Sobre Literatura Y Cine: Homenaje a Manfred Engelbert. Eds. Annette Paatz, Burkhard Pohl and Kathrin Bergenthal: Tranvía--Frey, Berlin, Germany Pagination: 363-72, 2003. 544.

Lewis, Ward B. "Bret Harte and Germany." Revue de Litterature Comparee 54 (1980): 213-24.

Luedtke, Luther S., and Patrick D. Morrow. "Bret Harte on Bayard Taylor: An Unpublished Tribute." Markham Review 3 (1973): 101-05.

May, Charles E. "Bret Harte's 'Tennessee's Partner': The Reader Euchred." South Dakota Review 15.1 (1977): 109-17.

May, Ernest R. "Bret Harte and the Overland Monthly." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 22.3 (1950): 260-71.

McKeithan, D. M. "Bret Harte's Yuba Bill Meets the Ingenue." Mark Twain Journal 14.1 (1969): 1-7.

Mitchell, Lee. "Bierstadt's Settings, Harte's Plots." Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. Ed. Michael Kowalewski. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 99-124.

Monteiro, George. "John Hay and the Western School of Literature." Western Illinois Regional Studies 7.1 (1984): 28-31.

Morrow, Patrick. Bret Harte. Western Writers Series. Boise, Idaho: Boise State College, 1972.

---. "Bret Harte (1836-1902)." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 3 (1970): 167-77.

---. "The Predicament of Bret Harte." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 5 (1972): 181-88.

Morrow, Patrick D. "Bret Harte and the Perils of Pop Poetry." Journal of Popular Culture 13 (1980): 476-82.

---. "Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and the San Francisco Circle." A Literary History of the American West. Ed. Max (pref.)--Maguire Westbrook, James H. (introd.). Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1987. 339-58.

---. "Bret Harte, Popular Fiction, and the Local Color Movement." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 123-31.

---. Bret Harte: Literary Critic. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1979.

---. "The Literary Criticism of Bret Harte: A Critical, Annotated Edition." Dissertation Abstracts International 30 (1970): 4996A-.

---. "Parody and Parable in Early Western Local Color Writing." Jour. of the West 19.1 (1980): 9-16.

Murphy, Brenda, and Goerge Monteiro. "The Unpublished Letters of Bret Harte to John Hay." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 12 (1979): 77-110.

Murphy, Francis. "The End of a Friendship: Two Unpublished Letters from Twain to Howells About Bret Harte." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 58.1 (1985): 87-91.

Nisen, Axel. "The Queer Short Story." The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis. Eds. Per Winther, Jakob Lothe and Hans H. Skei: U of South Carolina P, Columbia, SC Pagination: 181-90, 2004. xx, 212.

Nissen, Axel. Bret Harte: Prince and Pauper. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 2000.

---. "The Feminization of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte and the American Woman's Home." Studies in Short Fiction 34.3 (1997): 379-88.

---. "Lord of Romance: Bret Harte's Later Career Reconsidered." American Literary Realism 29.3 (1997): 64-81.

---. "Sketches from Life: Telling Bret Harte's Story: Putting Theory into Biographical Practice." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 20.3 (1997): 331-43.

O'Brien, Dominic V. "Bret Harte: A Survey of the Criticism of His Work (1863-1968)." Dissertation Abstracts 30 (1969): 1534A.

O'Connor, Richard. Bret Harte, a Biography. Boston, MA: Little Brown, 1966.

Palmer, Stephanie C. "Travel Delays in the Commercial Countryside with Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 59.4 (2003): 71-102.

Penry, Tara. "Bret Harte: Celebrity, Commodity-New Views of an Old Western Mythmaker." Western American Literature 36.1 (2001): 73-80.

---. "'Tennessee's Partner' as Sentimental Western Metanarrative." American Literary Realism 36.2 (2004): 148-.

Quirk, Tom, and Gary Scharnhorst. American Realism and the Canon. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, 1995.

Remak, Henry H. H. "Der Weg Zur Weltliteratur: Fontanes Bret-Harte-Entwurf." Fontane Blatter Spec. iss. 6 (1980): 5-60.

Robinson, Francis C. "The Donner Party in Fiction." University of Colorado Studies. Ed. J. K. Emery. Languages and Literature. Boulder: U of Colorado P, 1966. 87-93.

Roos, Bonnie. "James Joyce's 'the Dead' and Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy: The Nature of the Feast." Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 15.1 (2002): 99-126.

Scharnhorst, Gary. Bret Harte. Twayne's United States Authors Series. New York: Twayne, 1992.

---. Bret Harte : A Bibliography. Scarecrow Author Bibliographies ; No. 95. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

---. Bret Harte : Opening the American Literary West. The Oklahoma Western Biographies ; V. 17. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

---. "Bret Harte and the Literary Construction of American West." A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. Ed. Charles L. Crow. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Number: 21: Blackwell, Malden, MA Pagination: 479-95, 2003. xvi, 606.

---. "The Bret Harte-Mark Twain Feud: An inside Narrative." Mark Twain Journal 31.1 (1993): 29-32.

---. Bret Harte's California: Letters to the Springfield Republican and Christian Register, 1866-67. Albuquerque : U of New Mexico P, 1990.

---. "Browning and Bret Harte." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 12.3 (1999): 41-43.

---. "A Coda to the Twain-Harte Feud." Western American Literature 36.1 (2001): 81-87.

---. "Harte, Norris, and 'the Hero of Tomato Can'." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 8-10.

---. "'I Do Not Write This in Anger': Bret Harte's Letters to His Sister, 1871-93." Resources for American Literary Study 26.2 (2000): 200-22.

---. "Mark Twain on Charles Parsloe: An Early Interview." Mark Twain Journal 38.1 (2000): 7-8.

---. "Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and the Literary Construction of San Francisco." San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature. Ed. David --Skenazy Fine, Paul. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1995. 21-31.

---. "'My Luck, Just Now, Is Pretty Hard': Letters from Bret Harte, 1872-78." Missouri Review 19.3 (1996): 75-94.

---. "W. D. Howells and Bret Harte: The Star System in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." Essays in Arts and Sciences 25 (1996): 103-10.

---. "'Ways That Are Dark': Appropriations of Bret Harte's 'Plain Language from Truthful James'." Nineteenth-Century Literature 51.3 (1996): 377-99.

---. "Whatever Happened to Bret Harte?" American Realism and the Canon. Ed. Tom --Scharnhorst Quirk, Gary. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994. 201-11.

Scharnhorst, Gary, ed. "'My Luck, Just Now, Is Pretty Hard': Letters from Bret Harte, 1872-78." Missouri Review 19.3 (1996): 75-94.

Scharnhorst, Gary, ed. Selected Letters of Bret Harte. Literature of the American West. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1997.

Scharnhorst, Gary, ed. Bret Harte's California: Letters to the Springfield Republican and Christian Register, 1866-67. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1990.

Scheick, William J. "William Dean Howells to Bret Harte: A Missing Letter." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 9 (1976): 276-79.

Scherting, Jack. "Bret Harte's Civil War Poems: Voice of the Majority." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 133-42.

Sharnhorst, Gary. Selected Letters of Bret Harte. 1: Norman, OK : U of Oklahoma P, 1997.

Stevens, J. David. "'She War a Woman': Family Roles, Gender, and Sexuality in Bret Harte's Western Fiction." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 69.3 (1997): 571-93.

Stoneley, Peter. "Rewriting the Gold Rush: Twain, Harte and Homosociality." Journal of American Studies 30.2 (1996): 189-209.

Thomas, Jeffrey F. "Bret Harte." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 8 (1975): 266-70.

---. "Bret Harte and the Power of Sex." Western American Literature 8 (1973): 91-109.

Timpe, Eugene F. "Bret Harte's German Public." Jahrbuch fur Amerikastudien 10 (1965): 215-20.

Urgo, Joseph. "Capitalism, Nationalism, and the American Short Story." Studies in Short Fiction 35.4 (1998): 339-53.

Watson, Matthew Allen. "Borderwork: Region and Nation in Bret Harte's West." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 64.8 (2004): 2895.

Wilding, Michael. "The Short Stories of Marcus Clarke." Bards, Bohemians, and Bookmen: Essays in Australian Literature. Ed. Leon Cantrell and , S. St. Routh Lucia: U of Queensland P, 1976. 72-97.

Witschi, Nicolas S. "Genre Fictions and Material Representations of the Gold Rush: Writing the 'Real' California at the End of the Nineteenth Century." Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures. Ed. Udo J. Hebel. American Studies: A Monograph Series (Amstudies) Number: 101: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg, Germany Pagination: 75-95, 2003. xxxii, 384.



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