Janet Floyd (American studies, King's College, London, UK) looks at how "gold-rush" settings have been reflected in American high and popular arts, and what these works have to say about US cultures:
Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts, published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American
Although the last decade has seen an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books, surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form has app
