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Brings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood's representation of the frontier West

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Deadwood's Barbaric Yawp: Sharing a Literary Heritage Melody GraulichDeadwood Episodes Deadwood Cast 1. David Milch at Yale: An Interview Nathaniel Lewis2. Last Words in Deadwood Brian McCuskey3. The Thinking of Al Swearengen's Body: Kidney Stones, Pigpens, and Burkean Catharsis in Deadwood Tim Steckline4. "Land of Oblivion": Abjection, Broken Bodies, and the Western Narrative in Deadwood John Dudley5. The Final Stamp: Deadwood and the Gothic American Frontier Wendy Witherspoon6. "Down These Mean Streets": Film Noir, Deadwood, Cinematic Space, and the Irruption of Genre Codes Nicolas S. Witschi7. "Right or Wrong, You Side with Your Feelings" Jennilyn Merten8. "A Brooding and Dangerous Soul": Deadwood's Imperfect Music David Fenimore9. Calamity Jane and Female Masculinity in Deadwood Linda Mizejewski10. Queer Spaces and Emotional Couplings in Deadwood Michael K. Johnson11. Who Put the Gun into the Whore's Hand? Disability in Deadwood Nicole TonkovichBibliography Contributors Index

About the Author

Melody Graulich is a professor of English and American studies at Utah State University and the editor of Western American Literature. She is the coeditor of In Search of a Common Language: Environmental Writing and Education and Reading “The Virginian” in the New West: Centennial Essays (Nebraska, 2003). Graulich won the 2014 Mary C. Turpie Award from the American Studies Association. Nicolas S. Witschi is a professor of English at Western Michigan University and a past president of the Western Literature Association. He is the editor of A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West and author of Traces of Gold: California’s Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature.

Reviews

"Melody Graulich and Nicholas S. Witschi offer a smart collection of 11 essays that deconstruct Deadwood."-True West True West "Dirty Words in Deadwood will be welcomed by Deadwood scholars and casual readers looking for fresh insights into Milch's iconoclastic series."-Brad Benz, Great Plains Quarterly -- Brad Benz Great Plains Quarterly "Solidly researched and persuasively argued... Dirty Words in "Deadwood" expands upon its multiple meanings from a broad scope of perspectives that situate the series in a startlingly contemporary world."-Kirsten Mollegaard, Journal of American Culture -- Kirsten Mollegaard Journal of American Culture