TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCann,Sean
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Gumshoe America: hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism 
T2  - New Americanists
AV  - PS374.D4 M38 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Durham, N.C.
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Political fiction, American
KW  - Noir fiction, American
KW  - New Deal, 1933-1939
KW  - Crime in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-364) and index; Uncivil society: hard-boiled crime fiction and the idea of a democratic culture -- 1. Constructing Race Williams: the Klan and the making of hard-boiled crime fiction -- 2. "Mystic rigmarole": Dashiell Hammett and the realist critique of liberalism -- 3. The pulp writer as vanishing American: Raymond Chandler's decentralist imagination -- 4. Letdown artists: paperback noir and the procedural republic -- 5. Tangibles: Chester Himes and the slow death of New Deal populism -- Conclusion: beyond us, yet ourselves; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
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ER  -