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1 online resource (x, 327 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : sentimentality, sympathy, serial killers : Dashiell Hammett, Charles Willeford, and others -- Revising the roots of the hard-boiled tradition : the 1920s. Crime and sympathy : Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway ; Hammett and the hard-boiled sentimental -- Reading the hard-boiled sentimental : from the thirties to the fifties. Depression domesticity : James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, also Horace McCoy, Damon Runyon, Erskine Caldwell ; The sentimental action hero in Cold War crime stories : Raymond Chandler, David Goodis, John D. MacDonald, William P. McGivern, Wade Miller, John Evans [aka Howard Browne] ; also Cornell Woolrich, Mickey Spillane, Gil Brewer ; Sentimental perversion : the canonized nonconformists of the fifties : Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith -- Crime fiction at the sentimental apocalypse : the rise of the hard-boiled domestic detective and the serial killer from the sixties to the present. The homely heart of the hard-boiled : Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Robert Bloch ; Hard-boiled therapists, hard-boiled women, and a vigilante : Thomas Harris, Lawrence Block, James Lee Burke, Sue Grafton, and others ; Shade of professional sympathy : race, crime, detection : Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, William P. McGivern, Dennis Lehane, and others ; The rise of the serial killer : Robert Finnegan, Truman Capote, Thomas Harris ; also Robert Bloch, John D. MacDonald, Dean Koontz, Gil Brewer, Alice Sebold, and others. |
| Summary |
Cassuto offers an unconventional interpretation of American literature's most ""masculine"" genre, the American crime story, arguing that its origins can be traced, paradoxically, to nineteenth-century sentimental narratives which were almost always written by women. The crime story typically features a tough and laconic protagonist, usually a detective, navigating his way through an indifferent and corrupt world. Sentimental literature, by contrast, is based in the home and in religious faith, and emphasizes a strong moral code. Cassuto examines novels from the nineteenth century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, American. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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20th century |
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Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Domestic fiction, American. |
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in literature. |
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Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery films. |
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1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cassuto, Leonard, 1960- Hard-boiled sentimentality. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009 9780231126908 (DLC) 2008028238 (OCoLC)226360230 |
| ISBN |
9780231501651 (electronic book) |
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023150165X (electronic book) |
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9780231126908 |
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0231126905 |
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9780231126915 |
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0231126913 |
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9780061239632 |
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0061239631 |
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9780061239649 |
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006123964X |
| Music No. |
EB00639096 Recorded Books |
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