Hard-boiled sentimentality: the secret history of American crime stories
(2008)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Columbia University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2008
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780231501651 (electronic bk.) MWT11859845, 023150165X (electronic bk.) 11859845
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue; centered on the power of sympathy between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago
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