LEADER 03580nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910778601503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-70131-2 010 $a9786612701313 010 $a1-59213-911-6 010 $a0-585-36674-8 024 7 $aheb40063 035 $a(CKB)111004365794630 035 $a(EBL)557355 035 $a(OCoLC)47008525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000168877 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183840 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000168877 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10211207 035 $a(PQKB)11159861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC557355 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15712 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL557355 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10404143 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL270131 035 $a(dli)heb40063.0001.001 035 $a(MiU)MIU400630001001 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004365794630 100 $a20000228d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHard-boiled$b[electronic resource] $eworking class readers and pulp magazines /$fErin A. Smith 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-56639-768-5 311 $a1-56639-769-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-210) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aIn 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 606 $aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular literature$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPeriodicals$xPublishing$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorking class$xBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDetectives in literature 606 $aCrime in literature 615 0$aDetective and mystery stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aPeriodicals$xPublishing$xHistory 615 0$aWorking class$xBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aDetectives in literature. 615 0$aCrime in literature. 676 $a813/.087209052 700 $aSmith$b Erin A$g(Erin Ann),$f1970-$01477316 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778601503321 996 $aHard-boiled$93692443 997 $aUNINA