Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Leonard Cassuto
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780231126915
- ISBN-10
- 0231126913
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
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ISBN: 0231126913
Author: Cassuto, Leonard
Condition: New
Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue--centered on the power of sympathy--between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
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