Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Chris Packard

Book Overview

Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of the post-Civil War period - Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, George Catlin - as well as now-forgotten writers, illustrators, and photographers, suggest that in the period before the word...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403975973
• ISBN13: 9781403975973
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"