Hard-boiled fiction and dark romanticism

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Since the 1920s the use of romantic features in the tough masculinist narratives of American hard-boiled fiction has often surprised its readers. Through an exploration of fiction written by four major hard-boiled writers (Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and Horace McCoy), this study explains the genre's fascination with romance from a critical Cultural Studies perspective. It focuses not only on the use of the theme of the waste land and Gothic conventions, but also on the su…

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Full title :Hard-boiled fiction and dark romanticism / Jopi Nyman.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Peter Lang
Place of Publication:Frankfurt am Main
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1998.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (144 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783653019261, 3653019265
oclc:ocn812911765
LC Classification:PS374.M37
Dewey Decimal:813/.5209145

Subjects

American fiction American fiction -- History and critici… American fiction -- Male authors Cain, James M., (James Mallahan) Criticism, interpretation, etc Detective and mystery stories, American Detective and mystery stories, American… Hammett, Dashiell Hemingway, Ernest History Hommes dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM -- American Masculinité dans la littérature Masculinity in literature McCoy, Horace Men in literature Noir fiction, American Noir fiction, American -- History and c… Roman américain -- Histoire et critique… Romanticism