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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories

By Leonard Cassuto

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780231126908, 9780231126915, 9780231501651, 2008028238
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (7967122 bytes)
Pages
\345
Time added
2021-02-25 17:10:54

Description

Praise for Hard-Boiled Sentimentality Title Page Copyright © 2009 Leonard Cassuto CONTENTS Introduction: Sentimentality, Sympathy, Serial Killers Part I: Revising the roots of the hard-boiled tradition 1 Crime and Sympathy 2 Hammett and the Hard-Boiled Sentimental Part II: Reading the hard-boiled sentimental 3 Depression Domesticity 4 The Sentimental Action Hero in Cold War Crime Stories 5 Sentimental Perversion: The canonized nonconformists of the fifties Part III: Crime fiction at the sentimental apocalypse 6 The Homely Heart of the Hard-Boiled 7 Hard-Boiled Therapists, Hard-Boiled Women, and a Vigilante 8 Shades of Professional Sympathy, race, crime, detection 9 The Rise of the Serial Killer Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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