Detectives in the Shadows - A Hard-Boiled History

For anyone interested in crime fiction and television, or for those wanting to understand America's idolization of the good guy with a gun, Detectives in the Shadows is essential reading.

About the author

Susanna Lee is a professor of French and comparative literature at Georgetown University. She is the author of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority and A World Abandoned by God.

Summary

For anyone interested in crime fiction and television, or for those wanting to understand America's idolization of the good guy with a gun, Detectives in the Shadows is essential reading.

Product details

• Authors: Susanna Lee, Susanna (Associate Professor Lee
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781421437095
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3709-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Travel > Travel guides; HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, ART / Popular Culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective, History of Art, Literary theory, History of the Americas, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers