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 Antonia -- A Discipline of Sentiments: Ernest Hemingway's Modernist Masculinity -- Specters of Masculinity: Collectivity in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath -- 'There Never Was a Man Like Shane'
Summary
Masculine Style argues for the importance of "cowboy masculinity" from late nineteenth-century dime novels to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister. Daniel Worden analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism
