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Norris W. Yates presents here a number of women writers who have been overlooked in studies of Western formula fiction, arguing that their work constitutes a subgenre of the western novel. Like women writers of serious fiction, they appealed to the prejudices of the mass market on a superficial level but presented subtexts that contradicted or subverted those prejudices. Writers such as B. M. Bower, Caroline Lockhart, Vingie E. Roe, Honor? Willsie Morrow, and Katharine Newlin Burt drew more on the conventions of the domestic novel than those of the dime novel Western. They deemphasized violence, especially gunplay, and portrayed active rather than passive heroines. They frequently manipulated the traditional ending, allowing the heroine to retain a portion of her premarital individuality and independence. In these ways the writers supported and yet subverted Western-style images of ideal femininity and male hegemony. Gender and Genre will appeal to fans of the western novel as well as scholars in American literature and womens studies.
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Gender and Genre : An Introduction to Women Writers of Formula Westerns, 1900-1950
author
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Yates, Norris Wilson.
publisher
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University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin
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0826315690
print isbn13
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9780826315694
ebook isbn13
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9780585187501
language
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English
subject
Western stories--History and criticism, Women and literature--West (U.S.)--History--20th century, American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, American fiction--West (U.S.)--History and cri
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS374.W4Y38 1995eb
ddc
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813/.0874099287
subject
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Western stories--History and criticism, Women and literature--West (U.S.)--History--20th century, American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, American fiction--West (U.S.)--History and cri
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Gender and Genre
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Gender and Genre
An Introduction to Women Writers of Formula Westerns, 1900-1950
Norris Yates
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yates, Norris Wilson. Gender and genre: an introduction to women writers of formula westerns, 1900-1950 / Norris Yates. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263- 1569-0 (cl) 1. Western storiesWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 2. Women and literatureWest (U.S.) History20th century, 3. American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 4. American fiction 20th centturyHistory and criticism. 5. American FictionWest (U.S.)History and criticism. 6. West (U.S.)In literature. I. Title. PS374.W4Y38 1995 813'.0874099287dc20 94-32020
1995 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First edition
Designed by Miss Linda Mae Tratesbaud
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for KAREN AND MARK
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Acknowledgments
The making of this monograph was expedited by research grants from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, and by the cooperation of efficient and friendly staff at the Parks Library, Iowa State University; the Knight Library, University of Oregon; and the library of Oklahoma State University. Additional help came from Professor Christine Bold of the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, who offered useful suggestions about the substance of this book; from Margaret E. Shaw of Grants Pass, Oregon, who procured data on Vingie E. Roe's residence in that state; and from W. Ross Yates and Catherine Gleason Yates, of McMinnville, Oregon, who copyread the typescript and saved me from several lapses of logic and numerous lapses of style. My thanks to all. Larry Borosky improved this work through a superb job of copy editing. I alone of course am responsible for any deficiencies in this book.
Thanks also to the Boise State University Press for permission to use herein portions of my booklet Carolyn Lockhart (Western Writers Series #116).
NORRIS W. YATES EUGENE, OREGON
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Contents
Introduction
1
Chapter 1 The Formula Western and How It Grew
9
Chapter 2 B. M. Bower and the Happy Family
17
Chapter 3 Caroline Lockhart and Her Strong-Willed Heroines
37
Chapter 4 Vingie E. Roe's Novels of Beset Womanhood
57
Chapter 5 Women, Religion, and Politics in the Western Novels of Honor Willsie Morrow
81
Chapter 6 Persons, Property, and Power: Katharine Newlin Burt's Western Heroines
103
Chapter 7 Other Authors
117
Chapter 8 Recapitulation and Conclusions
133
Notes
141
Bibliography
159
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Introduction
Lillian S. Robinson has written that feminist literary study has included "the discovery, republication, and reappraisal of 'lost' or undervalued writers and their work.... [R]eputations have been reborn or remade and a female countercanon has come into being, out of components that were largely unavailable even a dozen years ago."1 My original intent with the present book was simply to carry this trend into study of the formula Western. However, the venture evolved into an introduction to the work of several women writers in this genre who attracted some attention in their time but since have been largely neglected. As research progressed, I developed several other purposes. One was to show that even though these women seem to have worked independently of each other, their fiction as a body constitutes a definite subgenre within the genre of the formula Western. Jane Tompkins has stated that "when women wrote about the West, the stories they told did not look anything like what we know as the Western."2 She was partly right. The women I discuss wrote formula Westerns, but formula Westerns with a difference.
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