[PDF.22jj] Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories

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

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 | #1510405 in Books |  2008-11-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.80 x5.90l,.95 | File type: PDF | 344 pages

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||12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Review of HARD-BOILED SENTIMENTALITY|By Patricia J. Sehulster|In Hard-Boiled Sentimentality The Secret History of American Crime Stories, Leonard Cassuto tells us that "The serial killer and the domestic detective have evolved out of the history of hard-boiled fiction, and hard-boiled fiction has evolved out of its twentieth-century U.S. surroundings" (270), and his book cove| |This is an erudite, illuminating and highly readable study (Journal of American Studies)

Cassuto has profitably plowed new ground in this study. It's certain to become an essential document for undersatnding crime fiction's inner workings. (<

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 tod...

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