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

• Autore: McCann Sean <1962->
• 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
• ISBN: 9780822380566; 0822380560; 9781282903494; 1282903497; 9786612903496; 661290349X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780021503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Americanists.