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Victoria Lamont - Westerns: A Women´s History - 9780803237629 - V9780803237629
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Westerns: A Women´s History

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Description for Westerns: A Women´s History Hardback. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 210 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns who were active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the western genre as we now know it emerged.

Victoria Lamont offers detailed studies of some of the many women who helped shape the western. Their novels bear the classic hallmarks of the western—cowboys, schoolmarms, gun ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Series
Postwestern Horizons
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803237629
SKU
V9780803237629
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Victoria Lamont
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.  

Reviews for Westerns: A Women´s History
“Westerns does far more than add women and stir; it is a tremendous gift to scholarship, restoring women’s contributions to American literary history and laying a more accurate and inclusive foundation for future work.”—Jennifer S. Tuttle, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature "Compelling. . . . A valuable read for all those interested in the intersections of gender and culture in ... Read more

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