Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
English
By (author): P. Bedore
This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulsestheorized as contamination and containmentexplain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.
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