Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
P. Bedore
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781137288646
- ISBN-10
- 1137288647
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2013
- Publication date
- 2013-11-06
- Pages
- 204
- Dimensions
- 220x148x17
- Weight
- 382