Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
| By: | P. Bedore |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137288646 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137288653 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.