Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fictiondraws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels: Dashiell Hammett'sThe Maltese Falcon,Raymond Chandler'sTheBig Sleep,Leigh Brackett'sNo Good from a Corpse,Dorothy B. Hughes'sIn a Lonely...