{"product_id":"raymond-chandler-romantic-ideology-and-anthony-dean-rizzuto-9783030883706","title":"Raymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry","description":"\u003ci\u003eRaymond Chandler, Romantic Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Chivalry\u003c\/i\u003e responds to the general consensus that Philip Marlowe represents a chivalric knight out of romance. The book argues that this commonplace reading requires a stunningly rosy rewriting of Marlowe, knighthood, chivalry, \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eromance. The book offers a history of the cultural politics of chivalry from the Middle Ages through British Romanticism to the modern United States, exposing the elitism, violent masculinism, racism, and ethno-national othering harbored within. Rizzuto also considers the survival of the chivalric ideology after World War I, and argues that the narrative of the Great War destroying chivalry rewrites the ghastly history of warfare. Touching on Chandler throughout these cultural histories, the book then directly confronts the question of knighthood and romance in the Marlowe novels. Rizzuto identifies an explicit rejection of romance in the service of hardboiled gender, class, and genre norms, including a seldom-remarked pattern of violence against women and sexual assault. The volume concludes by offering some ideas about Chandler's motivations and the reception of the Marlowe novels.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Dean Rizzuto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030883701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030883706\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d","brand":"Anthony Dean Rizzuto","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43945803874559,"sku":"9783030883706","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_62eac257-ebb8-40a0-8033-79d6ee11281f.jpg?v=1681509869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/raymond-chandler-romantic-ideology-and-anthony-dean-rizzuto-9783030883706","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}