Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies
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Author: P. Bedore ISBN: 9781137288653
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK Publication: November 7, 2013
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: P. Bedore
ISBN: 9781137288653
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication: November 7, 2013
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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.

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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.

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