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

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 Americ...

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Main Author: McCann, Sean 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. Duke University Press 2000
Series:New Americanists
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-364) and index
Physical Description:viii, 370 p 24 cm
ISBN:9780822380566
0822380560

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