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
9781349449934
ISBN-10
1349449938
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
Publication date
2013-01-01
Pages
204
Dimensions
216x140x