Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern

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contents list of illustrations ix acknowledgments xi introduction: Deadwood’s Barbaric Yawp: Sharing a Literary Heritage xiii Melody Graulich deadwood episodes lv deadwood cast lIx 1. David Milch at Yale: An Interview 1 Nathaniel Lewis 2. Last Words in Deadwood 18 Brian McCuskey 3. The Thinking of Al Swearengen’s Body: Kidney Stones, Pigpens, and Burkean Catharsis in Deadwood 44 Tim Steckline 4.“Land of Oblivion”: Abjection, Broken Bodies, and the Western Narrative in Deadwood 72 John Dudley 5. The Final Stamp: Deadwood and the Gothic American Frontier 104 Wendy Witherspoon 6.“Down These Mean Streets”: Film Noir, Deadwood, Cinematic Space, and the Irruption of Genre Codes 124 Nicolas S. Witschi 7.“Right or Wrong, You Side with Your Feelings” 141 Jennilyn Merten 8.“A Brooding and Dangerous Soul”: Deadwood’s Imperfect Music 165 David Fenimore 9. Calamity Jane and Female Masculinity in Deadwood 184 Linda Mizejewski 10. Queer Spaces and Emotional Couplings in Deadwood 208 Michael K. Johnson 11. Who Put the Gun into the Whore’s Hand? Disability in Deadwood 236 Nicole Tonkovich bibliography 269 contributors 281 index 285 ...