Hammett, Dashiell

HF

Hard-boiled fiction and dark romanticism

by Nyman, Jopi

fromStudien zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur

0 Type: Book

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 Ho…