كتاب
Owen Wister and the West
| العنوان: | Owen Wister and the West |
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| المؤلفون: | Scharnhorst, Gary, author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xxxi, 244 pages ; 23 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Oklahoma western biographies Oklahoma western biographies |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography., Western stories -- History and criticism., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary., Authors, American., Literature., Western stories., Biography., Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Subject Person: | Wister, Owen, 1860-1938. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | West (U.S.) -- In literature., United States, West. |
| Time: | 1800 - 1899 |
| الوصف: | "From James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women's rights, and immigration. In Owen Wister and the West, a biographical-literary account of Wister's life and writings, Gary Scharnhorst shows how the West shaped Wister's career and ideas, even as he lived and worked in the East. The Virginian, Wister's claim to literary fame, was published in 1902, but his writing career actually began in 1891 and continued for twenty-five years after the publication of his masterpiece. Scharnhorst traces Wister's western connections up to and through the publication of The Virginian and shows that the author remained deeply connected to the American West until his death in 1938. Like his Harvard friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister was the sickly scion of an eastern family who recuperated in the West before returning to his home and inherited social position. His life story is punctuated with appearances by such contemporaries as Frederic Remington, Rudyard Kipling, and Ernest Hemingway. Scharnhorst thoroughly discusses Wister's experiences in the West, including a detailed chronology of his travels and the writings that grew out of them. He offers numerous insights into Wister's adroit use of sources, and provides revealing comparisons between Wister's western works and the writings of other authors treating the same region. The West, Scharnhorst shows, was the crucible in which Wister tested and expressed his political opinions, most of them startlingly conservative by present standards. Yet The Virginian remains the template for the western novel today. More than any other Western writer of the past century and a half, Wister's career merits resurrection"-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | 1885-1893 -- 1893-1895 -- 1895-1897 -- 1898-1902 -- 1902-1911 -- 1911-1938. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn894140202 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8061-4675-1 0-8061-4675-3 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014359499.0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780806146751 0806146753 |
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