Reading ""The Virginian"" in the New West

by StephenTatum (Editor), Melody Graulich (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2003

  $35.95

  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. 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.