Gumshoe America : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism / Sean McCann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCann, Sean, 1962-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, American.

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Liberalism--United States--History--20th century.

Liberalism.

Political fiction, American--History and criticism.

Political fiction, American.

Noir fiction, American--History and criticism.

Noir fiction, American.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

Crime in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-364) and index.

ISBN:

9780822380566

0822380560

9781282903494

1282903497

9786612903496

661290349X

OCLC:

841912953