Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Why do the earliest representations of cowboy-figures symbolizing the highest ideals of manhood in American culture exclude male-female desire while promoting homosocial and homoerotic bonds? Evidence from the best-known Western writers and artists of the post-Civil War period - Owen Wister, Mark Twain, Frederic Remington, George Catlin - as well as now-forgotten writers, illustrators, and photographers, suggest that in the period before the word...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1403975973
ISBN13:9781403975973
Release Date:May 2005
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"
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