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Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush.

These erasures are not a shortcoming of the poet's imagination but rather a function of how the poet deploys the conventions of the labor poem to particular colonial ends, representing the environment as a foreign threat, elevating the activities of the Anglo laborer, and justifying the forms of set...

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Published in:Western American Literature Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 1 - 33
Main Author: Gelmi, Caroline
Format: Article
Published: Western Literature Association Fall2022
Subjects:
Imagination
Anthologies
Gold mining
Poetics
Poetry (Literary form)
Pastoral poetry
Landscapes
Poetry collections
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