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Discuss What Relationship Bret Harte Elaborates Between Frontier Experience and the Formation of Society.
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Discuss What Relationship Bret Harte Elaborates Between Frontier Experience and the Formation of Society. Bret Harte rocketed into fame overnight after his release of The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Short Stories. Before this Bret Harte was the editor of a well know newspaper, Overland Monthly, and before this he was appointed 'Secretary of the United States Branch Mint' at San Francisco and he also worked as a miner in his earlier years. Harte derived his method from the famous author Charles Dickens (as he from Smoulett) but Harte appeared to have a finer sense of form within his works. The short stories of The Luck of the Roaring Camp and Other Short Stories present not so much novel situation as eccentric character e.g. Melissa Smith in M'liss. Harte also captures the romance of those days, the glamour of the quest of gold (and the not so glamorous quest...
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