Masculine style
Subtitle: the American West and literary modernism
By: Daniel Worden
Series: Global masculinities; Global masculinities (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780230120310
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; Social role in literature; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Modernism (Literature); Masculinity; American fiction; In literature; History
Other titles: American West and literary modernism
Description: "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."--page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : masculinity, modernism, and the West; title: Masculinity for the million : gender in dime-novel Westerns; title: Between anarchy and hierarchy : Nat Love and Theodore Roosevelt's manly feelings; title: Marrying men : intimacy in Owen Wister's The Virginian; title: "I like to be like a man" : female masculinity in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Ántonia; title: A discipline of sentiments : masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's Death in the afternoon; title: Specters of masculinity : collectivity in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath; title: Conclusion : "There never was a man like Shane."