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Book Chapter
Hard‐Boiled/Noir Fiction
2009
Overview
This chapter contains sections titled:
Black Mask and Early Hard‐Boiled Crime Fiction
Postwar America and the Paperback Revolution
Some Contemporary Transformations
References and Further Reading
Publisher
Wiley‐Blackwell
Subject
American crime fiction “hard‐boiled” and “noir” ‐ evocative labels
/ Black Mask and Early Hard‐Boiled Crime Fiction
/ Carroll John Daly's Race Williams in the earliest Black Mask stories (1923–34)
/ noir protagonist ‐ manifestations of life's randomness and absurdity
/ postwar America and paperback revolution
/ sense of ultimate helplessness ‐ in feminist crime fiction
/ some contemporary transformations
/ The Glass Key , Ned Beaumont ‐ lacking partial legitimation of the private eye
/ traditional British detective (Sherlock Holmes) ‐ a detached figure
ISBN
1405146915, 9781405146913
