Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
Description
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceGender StudiesLiterary CriticismAmericanCriminologySemiotics & TheoryWomen's StudiesAnthropologyCultural & Social
2013Book
Author(s)Pamela Bedore
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137288646
LanguageEnglish
