The Rustler: A Tale of Love and War in Wyoming - Couverture souple

McElrath, Frances

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803282842 ISBN 13 : 9780803282841

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2002

Synopsis

Published in the spring of 1902, the same year as The Virginian, Frances McElrath's novel The Rustler enjoyed only brief success before fading from public memory. While The Virginian has indisputably served as the model for the genre of the Western, The Rustler remains virtually unknown. Although both novels were inspired by the Johnson County massacre, The Rustler is an account sympathetic to the perspective of the small cattleman, while The Virginian takes the part of the large cattle operations. Both novels also address, with differing conclusions, the clash between the independent Western man and the genteel Eastern woman. In this story of the stoic, competent, and fiercely independent cowboy Jim and his ill-fated love for the beautiful Hazel Clifford, McElrath offers an alternative view of the West and the standard marriage plot. In contrast to The Virginian, The Rustler points to the vulnerability of the cowboy ethos and a different sort of redemption for the frivolous Eastern woman. The Rustler is also a significant example of the connection between popular and literary traditions whereby sentimentalism, the Western, and a feminist perspective converge in surprising and fascinating ways.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Little information about Frances McElrath has survived in public records, but evidence suggests that she spent part of her life in the West on cattle ranches and army posts, and wrote The Rustler, her only novel, when she was a young woman. Victoria Lamont is an assistant professor of American literature at the University of Waterloo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803282842
• ISBN 13: 9780803282841
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 193
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• Personne responsable: non disponible