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

by Stephen J. Mexal (Author)

The Conservative Aesthetic explores a circle of western writers and artists that rose up around Theodore Roosevelt in the late nineteenth century. It makes the case that their unique alloy of popular Darwinism and western mythmaking represent an aesthetic component of American conservatism that has long been overlooked.

Author Biography

Stephen J. Mexal is professor of English at California State University, Fullerton.