2. "Filling Out Nice": Body-Building and Nation-Building in the Early Novels

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Note on Texts and List of Abbreviations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: The Novelist, the Critic, and the "Queer" 1
6. PART I. Fear of a Queer Prairie: Figures of the Body and/ as the Nation in the Letters and Early Novels
7. 1. Driving One-Handed: The Law, the Letter, and the Unsanctioned Voice 15
8. 2. "Filling Out Nice": Body-Building and Nation-Building in the Early Novels 33
9. PART II. Queering the "Classics": Willa Cather and the Literary History of the United States
10. 3. "In a Prohibition Country": The Culture Wars of the 1920s 79
11. 4. Comrades and Countrymen: Queer Love and a Dream of "America" 115
12. Conclusion: Queer (R)Age-Notes on the Late Fiction and the Queering of the World 133
13. Notes 143
14. Works Cited 171
15. Index 181