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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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| 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.