Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism

by Daniel Worden

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137360690
• ISBN13: 9781137360694
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"