McCann / Pease Gumshoe America

Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8056-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 380 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCann, Sean

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Uncivil Society: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Idea of a Democratic Culture 1

1. Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction 39

2. "Mystic Rigmarole": Dashiell Hammett and the Realist Critique of Liberalism 87

3. The Pulp Writer as Vanishing American: Raymond Chandler's Decentralist Imagination 140

4. Letdown Artists: Paperback Noir and the Procedural Republic 198

5. Tangibles: Chester Himes and the Slow Death of New Deal Populism 251

Conclusion: Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves 306

Notes 309

Bibliography 349

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

Sean McCann is Assistant Professor of English at Wesleyan University.