Masculine style : the American West and literary modernism
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Masculine style : the American West and literary modernism
（Global masculinities）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Masculinity, Modernism, and the West Masculinity for the Million: Gender in Dime Novel Westerns Between Anarchy and Hierarchy: Nat Love and Theodore Roosevelt's Manly Feelings Marrying Men: Intimacy in Owen Wister's The Virginian 'I Like to be Like a Man': Female Masculinity in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia A Discipline of Sentiments: Ernest Hemingway's Modernist Masculinity Specters of Masculinity: Collectivity in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath 'There Never Was a Man Like Shane'
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