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Lewis D. Moore
Analyzes the character of the hard-boiled detective, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. This critical study follows change in the novels through three main periods: the Early (roughly…
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A literary examination of the influence of 19th-century sleuths on the early hard-boiled investigators, this book explores the importance of works by Poe, Dickens, Collins and Conan Doyle to the…
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Meditations on America explores John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series, with special emphasis on MacDonald’s examination of the conflicts and joys of twentieth-century American culture and society.
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Analyzing important themes in George Gissing’s novels and recognizing the power of the artist’s imagination, especially through the critical works of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, this book reveals how…
