Overview
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.
- | Author: D. Worden
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 196 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0230120318
- | ISBN-13: 9780230120310
