hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism /
Sean McCann.
Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2000.
1 online resource (viii, 370 pages)
New Americanists
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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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.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
JSTOR
22573/ctv11btssv
Gumshoe America.
0822325802
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, American-- History and criticism.
Liberalism-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Political fiction, American-- History and criticism.
Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.