Masculine style : the American West and literary modernism / Daniel Worden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worden, Daniel, 1978-

Series:

Global masculinities series

Global masculinities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in literature.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Sex role in literature.

Social role in literature.

Masculinity.

History.

Modernism (Literature).

West (U.S.)--In literature.

West (U.S.).

Modernism (Literature)--United States--History.

Masculinity--United States--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 196 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

American West and literary modernism

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, [2011]

Summary:

In Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, Daniel Worden argues for the importance of "cowboy masculinity," as dramatized in late nineteenth century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister. Masculine Style presents a groundbreaking account of masculine self-fashioning in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism. Book jacket.

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 Ántonia

A discipline of sentiments: Ernest Hemingway's modernist masculinity

Specters of masculinity: collectivity in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

Conclusion "There never was a man like Shane."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230120310

0230120318

OCLC:

707626858