hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism /
First Statement of Responsibility
Sean McCann.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Durham, N.C. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Duke University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (viii, 370 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
New Americanists
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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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.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctv11btssv
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Gumshoe America.
International Standard Book Number
0822325802
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.