The novel of the American West
By: John R. Milton.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780803209800
Subjects: American fiction -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism; West (U.S.) -- In literature
Description: The chief concern of this study is what the author calls the capital W Western novel -- the serious work of literature which is as well written and as significant as the major novels of any other region, but which has gone relatively unnoticed or has been misunderstood by critics because it has been confused generically with the lowercase w western: the popular, formula western hacked out for the mass market. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 325-332.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The popular or formula Western; title: The writer's West; title: The evolution of the Western novel; title: Vardis Fisher : the struggle of rationalism; title: The historical inheritance : Guthrie and Manfred; title: Walter van Tilburg Clark : the Western attitude; title: Harvey Fergusson and the Spanish Southwest; title: Intuition and the dance of life : Frank Waters; title: The distant music : variations on Western realism