Sean Mccann

Gumshoe America

Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The secret history of American crime fiction doubles back to the 1920s and 1930s American left. The noir novelists of Sean McCann's shrewd and disturbing "Gumshoe America "devised a fierce, experimental pop-Modernism, an intransigent anti-popular strain within popular culture. McCann writes passionately, argumentatively, authoritatively, alert to both accomplishment and loss. Probably no prior study of American crime fiction is more entangled in the claims and contradictions of community, race, class, and politics."--Robert Polito, author of "Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson "

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325949
• ISBN-10: 0822325942
• Artikelnr.: 21896686

Autorenporträt

Sean McCann is Assistant Professor of English at Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

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