Cracking the hard-boiled detective : a critical history from the 1920s to the present /
"This critical study analyzes the development of the hard-boiled detective novel from the 1920's to the present. It shows that while the genre has undergone many changes it still employs a recognizable form and thematic focus throughout. The book covers three main periods, the Early (1927-...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Poe, Conan Doyle, and the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel; Early Period; 2. History as Recovery; 3. The Creation of Character; 4. Violence: Direction and Control; 5. Decaying Worlds; 6. Work: Discourse and Danger; 7. Sexuality and Discovery; 8. Friendship: The Absent Theme; Transitional Period; 9. Character in Conflict; 10. Pervasive Violence; 11. Expanded Space; 12. Needed Work; 13. Love and Sexuality; 14. Friendship: Faint Stirrings; 15. The Quality of Change: Individual Lives and Social Transformation; Modern Period; 16. Character and Wholeness.
- 17. Violence: Echoes and Conversions18. Better Places; 19. Necessary Work; 20. Sexuality and Diversity; 21. Surviving Friendship; 22. Multiples of Change; 23. The Uses of Memory; 24. Lies and Deceit: Family; 25. Conclusion: Expanding the Word; Bibliography; Index.
