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9780231126908

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231126908

  • ISBN10:

    0231126905

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-10-20
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

Leonard Cassuto's cultural history of the hard-boiled crime genre recovers the fascinating link between tough guys and sensitive women. The testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime fiction owe a debt to the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. Ranging from classics like "The Big Sleep" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" to neglected paperback gems, Leonard Cassuto chronicles his dialogue -centered on the power of sympathy -between self-consciously masculine American crime stories and American literature's most female genre. Cassuto moves smoothly from Sam Spade to Hannibal Lecter against the backdrop of the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century and ends with a startling link between today's serial killer stories and the domestic fictions of long ago.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Sentimentality, Sympathy, Serial Killers
Revising the Roots of the Hard-Boiled Tradition: The 1920s
Crime and Sympathy
Hammett and the Hard-Boiled Sentimental
Reading the Hard-Boiled Sentimental: From the Thirties to the Fifties
Depression Domesticity
The Sentimental Action Hero in Cold War Crime Stories
Sentimental Perversion: The Canonized Nonconformists of the Fifties
Crime Fiction at the Sentimental Apocalypse: The Rise of the Hard-Boiled Domestic Detective and the Serial Killer from the Sixties to the Present
The Homely Heart of the Hard-Boiled: Ross Macdonald and John D. MacDonald
Hard-Boiled Therapists
Shades of Professional Sympathy: Race
The Rise of the Serial Killer
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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