Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
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 t...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2013.
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Colección: | Crime Files Series.
Springer eBooks. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b36192715*spi |
Sumario: | 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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Descripción Física: | XI, 204 p. |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781137288653 |