Table of Contents:
  • 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 Ántonia
  • A discipline of sentiments: Ernest Hemingway's modernist masculinity
  • Specters of masculinity: collectivity in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
  • Conclusion "There never was a man like Shane."