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Gumshoe America : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism /

Sees hard-boiled crime fiction in relation to a changing literary marketplace and as an arena for conflicts about citizenship, class culture, and democracy during the New Deal.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCann, Sean, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:New Americanists.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Uncivil society: hard-boiled crime fiction and the idea of a democratic culture
  • 1. Constructing Race Williams: the Klan and the making of hard-boiled crime fiction
  • 2. "Mystic rigmarole": Dashiell Hammett and the realist critique of liberalism
  • 3. The pulp writer as vanishing American: Raymond Chandler's decentralist imagination
  • 4. Letdown artists: paperback noir and the procedural republic
  • 5. Tangibles: Chester Himes and the slow death of New Deal populism
  • Conclusion: beyond us, yet ourselves.