Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism (Global Masculinities)

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. 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. Daniel Worden. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 List of Illustrations......Page 8 Note from the Series Editors......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction: Masculinity, Modernism, and the West......Page 14 1 Masculinity for the Million: Gender in Dime- Novel Westerns......Page 30 2 Between Anarchy and Hierarchy: Nat Love’s and Theodore Roosevelt’s Manly Feelings......Page 48 3 Marrying Men: Intimacy in Owen Wister’s The Virginian......Page 70 4 “I Like to Be Like a Man”: Female Masculinity in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and My Ántonia......Page 94 5 A Discipline of Sentiments: Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon......Page 120 6 Specters of Masculinity: Collectivity in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath......Page 140 Conclusion: “There Never Was a Man Like Shane”......Page 156 Notes......Page 164 Bibliography......Page 192 Index......Page 204 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 This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism.