Leonard Cassuto

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality (eBook, ePUB)

The Secret History of American Crime Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231501651
• Artikelnr.: 49432700

Autorenporträt

Leonard Cassuto is professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in academic journals and popular periodicals ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Salon.com. He is the author of The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture and the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the American Novel.