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The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (Hardcover)
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The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger
recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in
U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the
property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a
larger territory which includes the domains of Mark Twain, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor,
Cormac McCarthy and other masters of fiction.The essays in this
collection pay detailed attention to both the genuine artistry and
the cultural significance of crime fiction in the United States. It
emphasizes American crime fiction's inquiry into the nature of
democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race,
class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details
of American experience.Each of these essays exists on its own terms
as a significant contribution to scholarship, but when brought
together, the collection becomes larger than the sum of its pieces
in detailing the centrality of crime fiction to American
literature. This is a crucial book for all students of American
fiction as well as for those interested in the literary treatment
of crime and detection, and also has broad appeal for classes in
American popular culture and American modernism.
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