Masculine Style
The American West and Literary Modernism
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Gender Studies
| Author: | D. Worden | ISBN: | 9780230337992 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | September 20, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | D. Worden |
| ISBN: | 9780230337992 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | September 20, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism.
This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism.
