Gumshoe America: hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism / Sean McCann.
2000
PS374.D4 M38 2000
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Gumshoe America: hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism / Sean McCann.
Author
McCann, Sean, 1962-
ISBN
9780822380566
0822380560
0822325802 (alk. paper : cloth)
9780822325802 (alk. paper : cloth)
0822325942 (pbk.)
9780822325949 (pbk.)
0822380560
0822325802 (alk. paper : cloth)
9780822325802 (alk. paper : cloth)
0822325942 (pbk.)
9780822325949 (pbk.)
Imprint
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 370 pages).
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PS374.D4 M38 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-364) and index.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.
New Americanists.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.