Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leonard CassutoTheme:Chronological Period/20th CenturyPublish date:11/5/2008Pages:344
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231126908ISBN-10:0231126905UPC:9780231126908Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective Fiction, American, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturyAward:2009 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Critical/Biographical Award|2009 Macavity Award Nominee - Nonfiction AwardSize:9.00 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.545Product ID:SCA2867Q0P
Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231126908ISBN-10:0231126905UPC:9780231126908Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective Fiction, American, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturyAward:2009 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Critical/Biographical Award|2009 Macavity Award Nominee - Nonfiction AwardSize:9.00 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.545Product ID:SCA2867Q0P
Leonard Cassuto is professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in academic journals and popular periodicals ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Salon.com. He is the author of The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture and the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the American Novel.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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🏆 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee - Critical/Biographical Award|2009 Macavity Award Nominee - Nonfiction Award
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