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

ISBN-13: 9780231126915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 344 str.

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 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.