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

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231126915)

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Format: Paperback
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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

$34.00
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Cassuto, Leonard

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

$34.00
Format: Paperback
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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: 0231126913
ISBN-13: 9780231126915
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2008
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d

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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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