Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism - New Americanists - Sean McCann - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822325802 - December 6, 2000
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Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism - New Americanists


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Offers an account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, this title 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.


384 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 6, 2000
ISBN13 9780822325802
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 384
Dimensions 160 × 230 × 30 mm   ·   725 g
Language English  

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