Victoria Lamont

Westerns

A Women's History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.  

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Produktdetails

• Postwestern Horizons
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9781496238955
• ISBN-10: 1496238958
• Artikelnr.: 68588917

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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