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What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diver...

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Main Author: Horsley, Lee (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
Literature.
Cultural Studies.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Popular culture > Study and teaching.
America > Literatures.
Electronic books.
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Summary:What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 329 pages)
ISBN:9780230280755
DOI:10.1057/9780230280755