Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
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In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront and wrestle with many of the paradoxes and disappointments of New Deal liberalism. For these authors, the same contradictions inherent in liberal...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822325942
ISBN13:9780822325949
Release Date:December 2000
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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