Westerns - A Women''s History

Using original archival analysis, Westerns: A Women’s History provides a revisionist account of the western genre, proving women writers of popular westerns were instrumental in the formation of the genre and used it to subtly critique patriarchy.
 

Table des matières

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Western Violence and the Limits of Sentimental Power

2. Domestic Politics and Cattle Rustling

3. Women’s Westerns and the Myth of the Pseudonym

4. Why Mourning Dove Wrote a Western

5. Cattle Branding and the Traffic in Women

6. The Masculinization of the Western

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A propos de l'auteur

Victoria Lamont is a professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. Bower (Bison Books, 2024) and the coauthor of Judith Merril: A Critical Study.
 

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Victoria Lamont
• Edition: University of Nebraska Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781496238955
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3895-5
• Pages: 277
• Thème: Postwestern Horizons
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises