P Bedore: 1 book
by P. Bedore
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
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.
