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UNINA9910816912003321 |
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Autore |
Smith Erin A (Erin Ann), <1970-> |
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Titolo |
Hard-boiled : working class readers and pulp magazines / / Erin A. Smith |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-70131-2 |
9786612701313 |
1-59213-911-6 |
0-585-36674-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-210) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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