Gumshoe America [electronic resource] : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism / Sean McCann.
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TextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.Description: viii, 370 pISBN: - 9780822380566
- 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
- PS374.D4 M38 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-364) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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