Research Catalog

Title

Realms of gold : the colorful writers of San Francisco, 1850-1950 / George Rathmell.

Author

Rathmell, George.

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : Creative Arts Book Co., 1998.

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Details

Description

xxxiii, 290 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Few regions in America can equal the rich literary history of San Francisco and its surrounding areas with authors such as Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Isadora Duncan, Jack London, Robinson Jeffers, Dashiell Hammett, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Henry Miller, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Realms of Gold gives us a fresh look at the lives of these writers and portrays the development of the city from a Gold Rush boom town through its rapid growth as a commercial port and rail head, its destruction in 1906, its rebirth, to its post-World War II status as a major urban center. - Back cover.

Subject

• American literature > California > San Francisco > History and criticism
• Authors, American > Homes and haunts > California > San Francisco
• American literature
• Authors, American > Homes and haunts
• Intellectual life
• Literature
• Schriftsteller
• Biografie
• Literatur
• Geschichte 1850-1950
• San Francisco (Calif.) > Intellectual life
• San Francisco (Calif.) > In literature
• California > San Francisco
• San Francisco, Calif

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Biographies.

Note

• "California literary heritage"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-283) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The golden era -- The bohemians -- The circle grows -- The Californian -- Famous but broke -- Outcroppings -- Realizations -- Magnificent fireworks -- The Overland Monthly -- Author and lecturer -- The Golden Gate trinity -- The dispersement -- The Bohemian Club -- 11 Museum Street -- A perfect day -- The penniless Scotsman -- The new Overland Monthly -- The Hights -- The new pagans -- Exits and entrances -- A new job -- California romance -- La Belle Epoque -- A new century -- Death and homecoming -- Destruction -- Creation -- Dreamers and builders -- Wolf House -- The satyr's dirge -- When the grass shall cover me -- Hard times -- Dubious battle -- The new Bohemians -- To arms -- Back home -- The end of the past.

ISBN

• 0887391621
• 9780887391620

LCCN

97067373

OCLC

• ocm39936652
• 39936652
• SCSB-1210326

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library