LEADER 04072nam 22007215 450 001 9910512160603321 005 20230810174041.0 010 $a3-030-88371-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-88371-3 035 $a(CKB)5100000000152648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6863437 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6863437 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-88371-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)995100000000152648 100 $a20211129d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRaymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry /$fby Anthony Dean Rizzuto 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (106 pages) 311 $a3-030-88370-1 327 $aIntroduction: the elusive game -- A sense of the past: a brisk overview of chivalry and romance -- The long goodbye: World War I, romantic nostalgia, and chivalry's endless death -- Games with knights: Philip Marlowe, hardboiled masculinity, and the ungentle negation of romance -- Conclusion: the mean streets of the dialectic. 330 $aRaymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry responds to the general consensus that Philip Marlowe represents a chivalric knight out of romance. The book argues that this commonplace reading requires a stunningly rosy rewriting of Marlowe, knighthood, chivalry, and romance. The book offers a history of the cultural politics of chivalry from the Middle Ages through British Romanticism to the modern United States, exposing the elitism, violent masculinism, racism, and ethno-national othering harbored within. Rizzuto also considers the survival of the chivalric ideology after World War I, and argues that the narrative of the Great War destroying chivalry rewrites the ghastly history of warfare. Touching on Chandler throughout these cultural histories, the book then directly confronts the question of knighthood and romance in the Marlowe novels. Rizzuto identifies an explicit rejection of romance in the service of hardboiled gender, class, and genre norms, including a seldom-remarked pattern of violence against women and sexual assault. The volume concludes by offering some ideas about Chandler?s motivations and the reception of the Marlowe novels. Anthony Dean Rizzuto teaches English at Sonoma State University, USA. He spearheaded The Annotated Big Sleep, a critical edition that places Raymond Chandler?s first novel in its historical, cultural, and literary contexts. He has a PhD in English from the University of Virginia, and degrees in History and Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz. 606 $aFiction 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aLiterature, Medieval 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aFeminist Literary Theory 606 $aMedieval Literature 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aCultural History 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval. 615 0$aPopular Culture. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aFeminist Literary Theory. 615 24$aMedieval Literature. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aCultural History. 676 $a813.52 676 $a813.52 700 $aRizzuto$b Anthony Dean$01076039 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910512160603321 996 $aRaymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry$92586074 997 $aUNINA