Reading The Virginian in the new West
By: edited by Melody Graulich and Stephen Tatum.
Contributors: Graulich, Melody, 1951-; Tatum, Stephen, 1949-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Wister, Owen, 1860-1938.; Western stories -- History and criticism.
Description: "Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now familiar conventions of the genre. On the heels of the classic western's centennial, this collection of essays both re-examines the text of The Virginian and uses Wister's novel as a lens for studying what the next century of western writing and reading will bring.

The contributors take Wister's life and travels, the novel's address of gender and race issues, its illustrations and various retellings on stage, film, and television as points of departure for speculations about the "new West" - as indeed Wister himself does at the end of the novel.".

"The contributors reconsider the novel's textual complexity and investigate The Virginian's role in American literary and cultural history. Together their essays represent a new western literary studies, comparable to the new western history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-289) and index.