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Author Smith, Erin A. (Erin Ann), 1970- author.

Title Hard-boiled : working class readers and pulp magazines / Erin A. Smith.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2000.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-210) and index.
Contents pt. I. Reconstructing Readers. 1. The Hard-Boiled Writer and the Literary Marketplace. 2. The Adman on the Shop Floor: Workers, Consumer Culture, and the Pulps -- pt. II. Reading Hard-Boiled Fiction. 3. Proletarian Plots. 4. Dressed to Kill. 5. Talking Tough. 6. The Office Wife.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Working class -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Noir fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Pulp literature -- History and criticism.
Detectives in literature.
Crime in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
Added Title ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 1566397685 (alk. paper)
1566397693 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781566397698 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781566397681 hardcover
9781566397698 paperback
9781592139118 ebook
Standard No. heb40063 hdl

 
    
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