American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Theodore MartinSeries:Literature NowPublish date:3/31/2026Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231211819ISBN-10:231211813UPC:9780231211819Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:American, Modern, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCGWJ0NEX7
American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration
While the United States was building the world's largest prison system, Americans were reading crime novels. What did it mean to read crime fiction in a "tough-on-crime" era? How were fictional stories about crime linked to cultural narratives about criminality, class, and race? What did novels have to do with the making of mass imprisonment in America?
Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking...Series: Literature Now
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231211819ISBN-10:231211813UPC:9780231211819Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:American, Modern, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCGWJ0NEX7
Theodore Martin is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present (Columbia, 2017).
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