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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): P. Bedore

Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)

P. Bedore

Series: Crime Files

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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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Crime Files
Release date: 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: P. Bedore
Dimensions: 216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 204
Edition: 1st ed. 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-44993-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
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LSN: 1-349-44993-8
Barcode: 9781349449934

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