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 today’s serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
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 today’s serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
Circa l’autore
Leonard Cassuto is professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in academic journals and popular periodicals ranging from theWall Street Journal to Salon.com. He is the author of
The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture and the general editor of the forthcoming
Cambridge History of the American Novel.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9780231501651 ● Dimensione 4.9 MB ● Casa editrice Columbia University Press ● Città New York ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2008 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2470959 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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