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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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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781349449934
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 204
  • Utgitt:
  • 1 januar 2013
  • Utgave:
  • 12013
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 140x216x0 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 286 g.
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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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