Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
Author: P. Bedore
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137288655

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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.


Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: P. Bedore
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-07 - Publisher: Springer

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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 a
Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: P. Bedore
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-07 - Publisher: Springer

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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 a
The Dime Novel Detective
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Gary Hoppenstand
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher: Popular Press

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Provides reprints of the texts of 5 detective dime novels, and lists of all the titles in the series published by the five publishers.
The Origins of the American Detective Story
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: LeRoy Lad Panek
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-24 - Publisher: McFarland

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Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in Ameri
Violence in American Popular Culture
Language: en
Pages: 672
Authors: David Schmid
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-02 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media. F