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- Title
"Young America" and the Anti-Emersonian Western: John Williams's Butcher's Crossing.
- Authors
Hutchison(bio), Anthony
- Abstract
The article critiques the 1960 Western novel "Butcher's Crossing," by American author John Williams. It discussed the socioeconomic conditions in a fictional Kansas town during the early 1890s depicted in the novel, the acknowledgment of the philosophy of writer Ralph Waldo Emerson by the protagonist in his buffalo-hunting expedition, and the references used by Williams to contextualize his story such as the images by photographer L. T. Huffmann and surveys by geologist F. V. Hayden.
- Subjects
BUTCHER'S Crossing (Book); WILLIAMS, John, 1922-1994; LITERARY criticism; 20TH century American fiction; CITIES &; towns -- Fiction; EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; PROTAGONISTS (Persons) in literature
- Publication
Western American Literature, 2020, Vol 55, Issue 3, pN.PAG
- ISSN
0043-3462
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/wal.2020.0040