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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
Book Details
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 1988
- Pages: 416
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.74in - 5.11in - 0.79in - 0.64lb
- EAN: 9780140390650
- Categories: • Westerns - General• Classics• Literary
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About the Author
John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain at the Movies, Prophetic Writers: The River in Early American Literature, Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic, Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock, and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.
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What people are saying
Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. We the People: https://t.co/HSQd0cfKJa; Of Thee I Sing: https://t.co/bSkmCeE703. #ScholarSunday guru. he/him
Going back at least to Owen Wister's bestselling novel The Virginian, a staple of Wild West storytelling has been the laconic hero. From Wister to John Wayne's carefully curated image to Timothy Olyphant's paired characters in Deadwood & Justified, this type has endured.
I make figure drawings and talk incessantly about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films. https://t.co/2Sw9OBuoef
One of the black eyes of the Western genre is that so much of its tropes & themes originate with Owen Wister's 1902 novel The Virginian, which is a decent read & also a deeply evil apologia for lynching (though it draws the line at lynching a man for his race)... https://t.co/lEI6KXahXX
What people are saying
Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. We the People: https://t.co/HSQd0cfKJa; Of Thee I Sing: https://t.co/bSkmCeE703. #ScholarSunday guru. he/him
Going back at least to Owen Wister's bestselling novel The Virginian, a staple of Wild West storytelling has been the laconic hero. From Wister to John Wayne's carefully curated image to Timothy Olyphant's paired characters in Deadwood & Justified, this type has endured.
I make figure drawings and talk incessantly about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films. https://t.co/2Sw9OBuoef
One of the black eyes of the Western genre is that so much of its tropes & themes originate with Owen Wister's 1902 novel The Virginian, which is a decent read & also a deeply evil apologia for lynching (though it draws the line at lynching a man for his race)... https://t.co/lEI6KXahXX