The Truman Gumshoes
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The Truman Gumshoes by Jk Van Dover
The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction. It offers the first substantial literary analysis of the Max Thursday novels of Wade Miller and the Carney Wilde novels of Bart Spicer, and it develops new perspectives on the well-known Mike Hammer novels of Mickey Spillane and the Lew Archer novels of Ross Macdonald. A particular focus is upon the theme of the detective's status as a loner who succeeds in discovering truth and achieving justice because he works outside organized social structures.
J.K. Van Dover taught in the English Department of Lincoln University for 38 years; he has also taught as a Fulbright Professor of American Literature in Germany, China, Austria, and Slovakia. He has published extensively on detective fiction and lives in Newark, Delaware.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476688022 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476688028 |
| Title | The Truman Gumshoes |
| Author | Jk Van Dover |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Year published | 2022-02-14 |
| Number of pages | 195 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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