Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Packard, C.

Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781403975973)

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Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Packard, C.

Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

$59.99
Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Packard, C.

Queer Cowboys: And Other Erotic Male Friendships in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

$59.99
Format: Paperback
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Brokeback Mountain exploded the myth of the American cowboy as a tough, gruff, and grizzled loner. Queer Cowboys exposes, through books by legendary Western writers such as Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, and Owen Wister, how same-sex intimacy and homoerotic admiration were key aspects of Westerns well before Brokeback's 1960's West, and well before the word "homosexual" was even invented. Chris Packard introduces readers to the males-only clubs of journalists, cowboys, miners, Indians, and vaqueros who defined themselves by excluding women and the cloying ills of domesticity and recovers a forgotten culture of exclusively masculine, sometimes erotic, and often intimate camaraderie in the fiction, photographs, and theatrical performances of the 1800's Wild West.

Author: C. Packard
ISBN-10: 1403975973
ISBN-13: 9781403975973
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2005
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.34d
By C. Packard
By C. Packard
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CHRIS PACKARD teaches Literature and Writing at New York University and New School University, USA.

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