{"product_id":"american-crime-fiction-peter-swirski-9783319301075","title":"American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre fiction as art, successive chapters look at American crime writers whose careers throw light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics: Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Swirski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3319301071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783319301075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.68h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Peter Swirski","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089080955135,"sku":"9783319301075","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac5958ee-64f4-45d2-b8a4-88c057f9abcb.jpg?v=1769108089","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-crime-fiction-peter-swirski-9783319301075","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}