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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
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Product Description: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses―theorized as contamination and containment―explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner...read more
By Pamela Bedore
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9781137288646 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 6, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses―theorized as contamination and containment―explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.

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