1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455492203321

Autore

Smith Erin A (Erin Ann), <1970->

Titolo

Hard-boiled [[electronic resource] ] : working class readers and pulp magazines / / Erin A. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-282-70131-2

9786612701313

1-59213-911-6

0-585-36674-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

813/.087209052

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Popular literature - United States - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century

Periodicals - Publishing - United States - History - 20th century

Working class - Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century

Detectives in literature

Crime in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Reconstructing Readers; 1. The Hard-Boiled Writer and the literary Marketplace; 2. The Adman on the Shop Floor: Workers, Consumer Culture, and the Pulps; Part II : Reading Hard-Boiled Fiction; 3. Proletarian Plots; 4. Dressed to Kill; 5. Talking Tough; 6. The Office Wife; Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1920's a distinctively American detective fiction emerged from the pages of pulp magazines. The "hard-boiled" stories published in Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and Clues featured a new kind of hero and soon challenged the popularity of the British mysteries that held readers in thrall on both sides of the



Atlantic. In Hard-Boiled Erin A. Smith examines the culture that produced and supported this form of detective story through the 1940's. Relying on pulp magazine advertising, the memoirs of writers and publishers, Depression-era

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910701064303321

Titolo

Record of decision to remove the survey and manage mitigation measure standards and guidelines from Bureau of Land Management resource management plans within the range of the northern spotted owl [[electronic resource] ] : Bureau of Land Management districts in Oregon and California, within the range of the northern spotted owl / / USDI-Bureau of Land Management

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Portland, Or.] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office, , [2007]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (44 pages)

Soggetti

Forest management - Oregon

Forest management - California

Old growth forests - Oregon

Old growth forests - California

Spotted owl - Oregon

Spotted owl - California

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 4, 2011).

"July 2007."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-43).