Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction - Paperback
by P. Bedore
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Availability:In StockContributor:P. BedoreSeries:Crime FilesTheme:Aspects (Academic)/HistoricalPublish date:1/1/2013Pages:204
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781349449934ISBN-10:1349449938UPC:9781349449934Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Americas (North Central South West Indies), American, Mystery & Detective FictionSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.286Product ID:SC26QRRAD1
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781349449934ISBN-10:1349449938UPC:9781349449934Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Americas (North Central South West Indies), American, Mystery & Detective FictionSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.286Product ID:SC26QRRAD1
Pamela Bedore is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA, where she is an award-winning teacher of American Literature and Popular Culture. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Studies in Popular Culture, Foundations, Writing Program Administrator, and she is the book review editor of Clues.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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2013 Edition
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