Crime Fiction and the City: The Rise of a Global Urban Genre
In the twentieth century, in the United States, the figure of the nineteenth century frontier pioneer metamorphosed into the hardboiled detective and crime fiction became urban. Unlike the English Golden Age detective who flitted from country house to rural vicarage, the original hardboiled gumshoe...
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The International Academic Forum
2017-10-01
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| Series: | IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-cultural-studies/volume-2-issue-2/article-7/ |