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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... Read Full 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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview