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

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) : illustrations Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 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; Part II : Reading Hard-Boiled Fiction; 3. Proletarian Plots; 4. Dressed to Kill; 5. Talking Tough; 6. The Office Wife; Afterword; Notes; Index Summary An examination of the culture that produced and supported pulp-fiction Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-210) and index Notes Print version record 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 Detectives in literature. Crime in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama. American fiction Crime in literature Detective and mystery stories, American Detectives in literature Literature and society Periodicals -- Publishing Popular literature Working class -- Books and reading United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 00023424 ISBN 0585366748 9780585366746 9781592139118 1592139116

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