Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
Format: Print Book
ISBN: 9781349449934
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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.
Publication Year: 2013
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: P
Weight (Gram): 267