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Masculine Style The American West and Literary Modernism

Masculine Style The American West and Literary Modernism

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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.

Keywords

Social ScienceGender StudiesAnthropologyCultural & SocialLiterary CriticismAmericanMedia StudiesWomen's Studies

2011Book

Author(s)Daniel Worden

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US

ISBN9780230120310

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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