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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

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This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses-theorized as contamination and containment-explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781349449934
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 204
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. januar 2013
  • Udgave:
  • 12013
  • Størrelse:
  • 140x216x0 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 286 g.
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 21. november 2024

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This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses-theorized as contamination and containment-explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.

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