Late Westerns

Lee Clark Mitchell is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and a professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels; Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film; and Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, among other books.

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: There’s No Such Thing as Postwestern, and It’s a Good Thing Too
1. Ghostly Evocations in Bad Day at Black Rock
2. Catching the 3:10 to Yuma
3. Border-Crossing in Lone Star
4. Alternative Facts in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
5. Defying Expectations in A History of Violence and Brokeback Mountain
6. Dueling Genres in No Country for Old Men
7. Subverting Late Westerns in The Counselor
Epilogue: Habits of Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index