Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 1137288655
- ISBN-13
- 9781137288653
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 204
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-11-07
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- P. Bedore
Description
This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.
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