SOURCE: “Mining the West: Bret Harte and Mary Hallock Foote,” in Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition, edited by Karen L. Kilcup, University of Iowa Press, 1999, pp. 202-18.
In the following essay, Floyd places both Foote and Bret Harte in the context of newer critical perspectives which question old stereotypes about the way writers have dealt with the tug-and-pull between East and West.
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