Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Cassuto, Leonard

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231126908)

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Format: Hardcover
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Cassuto, Leonard

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

$110.00
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Cassuto, Leonard

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

$110.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Leonard Cassuto
ISBN-10: 0231126905
ISBN-13: 9780231126908
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2008
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee
Award: Macavity Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2009
By Leonard Cassuto
By Leonard Cassuto
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Leonard Cassuto is professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in academic journals and popular periodicals ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Salon.com. He is the author of The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture and the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the American Novel.

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