Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward
expansion, it was Owen Wister's novel "The Virginian," published in
1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions of the
genre. On the heels of the classic western's centennial, this
collection of essays both re-examines the text of The Virginian and
uses Wister's novel as a lens for studying what the next century of
western writing and reading will bring. The contributors address
Wister's life and travels, the novel's influence on and handling of
gender and race issues, and its illustrations and various
retellings on stage, film, and television as points of departure
for speculations about the "new West"--as indeed Wister himself
does at the end of the novel. The contributors reconsider the
novel's textual complexity and investigate "The Virginian's" role
in American literary and cultural history. Together their essays
represent a new western literary studies, comparable to the new
western history.
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