Dime novels and the roots of american detective fiction
Auteur :
Bedore, P.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781137288646
Date de publication :
6 nov. 2013
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.