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Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism Book

Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism, In <i>Gumshoe America</i> 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-cen, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism, 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-cen, Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
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  • Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
  • Written by author Sean McCann
  • Published by Duke University Press Books, January 2000
  • 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-cen
  • 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.
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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


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