Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies
| Author: | P. Bedore | ISBN: | 9781137288653 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | November 7, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | P. Bedore |
| ISBN: | 9781137288653 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | November 7, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
