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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCann, Sean, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:New Americanists.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.