03514aam 2200841 450 991080933410332120240104130537.09780822380566ebook0822380560ebook978128290349412829034979786612903496661290349X10.1515/9780822380566(CKB)111056486754880(EBL)1167499(OCoLC)841912953(SSID)ssj0000166620(PQKBManifestationID)11151633(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000166620(PQKBWorkID)10162075(PQKB)10399811(OCoLC)245538670(MiAaPQ)EBC1167499245538670(OCoLC)1125510521(MdBmJHUP)muse80097(DE-B1597)553947(DE-B1597)9780822380566(OCoLC)1226679347(EXLCZ)9911105648675488020080905d2000 uy 0engurcn#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGumshoe America hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism /Sean McCannDurham, N.C. ;London :Duke University Press,2000.1 online resource (370 pages)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.0822325942 0822325802 Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-364) and index.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.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.New Americanists.Detective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismLiberalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismNoir fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismNew Deal, 1933-1939Crime in literatureDetective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.LiberalismHistoryPolitical fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Noir fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.New Deal, 1933-1939.Crime in literature.813/.087209358McCann Sean1962-1693485NcDNcDStDnUADBOOK9910809334103321Gumshoe America4071296UNINA