Owen Wister, Lin McLean

Max Lester Loges (Lamar University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1898

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

Lin McLean, Owen Wister’s first attempt at creating a cowboy hero, is largely a Bildungsroman tracing the gradual evolution of a young man from his first realization that something is lacking in his life, through numerous attempts to find that something, to marriage with a soul mate who provides him with the home he deeply desires. Structurally Lin McLean is a collection of previously published stories about the book’s central character which were rewritten with some additional material added to fill in the gaps of the narrative. These six stories that provide the book’s basic structure include “How Lin McLean Went East”, “The Winning of the Biscuit-Shooter”, “Lin McLean’s Honeymoon”, “A Journey in …

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Citation: Loges, Max Lester. "Lin McLean". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 August 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3928, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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