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Gumshoe America : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism / / Sean McCann



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Autore: McCann Sean <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gumshoe America : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism / / Sean McCann Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Durham, N.C. ; ; London : , : Duke University Press, , 2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (370 pages)
Disciplina: 813/.087209358
Soggetto topico: Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Liberalism - United States - History - 20th century
Political fiction, American - History and criticism
Noir fiction, American - History and criticism
New Deal, 1933-1939
Crime in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-364) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Gumshoe America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780822380566
0822380560
9781282903494
1282903497
9786612903496
661290349X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780021503321
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Serie: New Americanists.