Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism

Worden, D.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-09-20

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349298525

DOI: 10.1057/9780230337992

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 196.0