1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954922003321

Autore

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

Titolo

Hard-boiled : working class readers and pulp magazines / / Erin A. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2000

ISBN

9786612701313

9781282701311

1282701312

9781592139118

1592139116

9780585366746

0585366748

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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.

UNISA996654171903316

Autore

BLOUNT, Thomas <1618-1679.>

Titolo

Glossographia, or, A dictionary interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language now in our refined English tongue : with etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same : also the terms of divinity, law, physick, musick, mathematics, war heraldry, and other arts and sciences explicated / by T. Blount

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Tho. Newcomb and are to be sold by Tho. Flesher, 1681

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) ([14], 712 p.)

Disciplina

420

Soggetti

Lingua inglese

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Pagina 520 sbiadita per perdita di stampa. Pagine 510-531 dell' University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Copia di biblioteca con giunzioni alla fine.

Riproduzione dell'originale presso la Cambridge University Library