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Gumshoe America

- Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism

About Gumshoe America

Offers an account of the crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, the author 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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780822325949
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 384
  • Published:
  • December 5, 2000
  • Dimensions:
  • 230x169x27 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 590 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 7, 2024

Description of Gumshoe America

Offers an account of the crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, the author 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.

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