Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bret Harte” in chapter 2.18, page 363 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2:
... actually current in California at the time.
Much of this criticism turns on the failure to distinguish between dialect and slang, slang having a right to be original.
The society, moreover, that Bret Harte portrays was unique in its compositeness.
There were preachers, teachers, lawyers, and doctors among those who flocked to California as well as toughs, tramps, dead-beats, and illiterates.
The fa...
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Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† | Bret Harte | 212 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
Francis Bret Harte | 68 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Franciscus Bret Harte | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Frank Bret Harte | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
F. Bret Harte | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.