BOOKS

The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West

The Conservative Aesthetic traces American political conservatism to a late-nineteenth-century circle of writers and artists—including Theodore Roosevelt, Owen Wister, Frederic Remington, and others—who yoked popular understandings of Darwin to western literary aesthetics.

(Lexington, 2021)

Reading for Liberalism: The Overland Monthly and the Writing of the Modern American West

Reading for Liberalism examines the imaginative underpinnings of political liberalism in late nineteenth-century California through a study of the Overland Monthly literary magazine, founded in 1868 in San Francisco.

(University of Nebraska, 2013)

Lincoln’s Westerner: The Short Fiction of Noah Brooks

Lincoln’s Westerner collects the late-nineteenth-century western short fiction of journalist, editor, and novelist Noah Brooks.

(KDP, 2020)