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BL
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1025314
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b779684
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| Main Entry
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McCann, Sean,1962-
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| Title & Author
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Gumshoe America : : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism /\ Sean McCann.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham, N.C. :: Duke University Press,, 2000.
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| Series Statement
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New Americanists
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (viii, 370 pages)
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| ISBN
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0822380560
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: 1282903497
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: 661290349X
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: 9780822380566
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: 9781282903494
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: 9786612903496
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0822325802
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0822325942
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9780822325802
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9780822325949
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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Sees hard-boiled crime fiction in relation to a changing literary marketplace and as an arena for conflicts about citizenship, class culture, and democracy during the New Deal.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Crime in literature.
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Detective and mystery stories, American-- History and criticism.
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Liberalism-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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Political fiction, American-- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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American fiction.
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Crime in literature.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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Liberalism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery Detective
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New Deal, 1933-1939
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Political fiction, American.
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Politics and literature.
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Amerikaans.
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Liberalisme.
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Misdaadromans.
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New Deal.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.087209358
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| LC Classification
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PS374.D4M38 2000eb
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| NLM classification
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18.06bcl
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