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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories

by Leonard Cassuto

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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 pap... Read more

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& mdash;centered on the power of sympathy& mdash;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. Less

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File size9 X 6 X 0 in
Print pages344
PublisherColumbia University Press
Publication date November 5, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780231126908
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