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Nov 6, 2013
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9781137288646

Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (2013)

by Bedore, P
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This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses--theorized as contamination and containment--explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.

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Pub dateNov 6, 2013
ISBN-101137288647
ISBN-139781137288646
LanguageEnglish
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