SOURCE: Stevens, J. David. “‘She War a Woman’: Family Roles, Gender, and Sexuality in Bret Harte's Western Fiction.” American Literature 69, no. 3 (September 1997): 571-93.
In the following essay, Stevens traces the development of Harte's treatment of gender and sexuality in his short fiction.
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