American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art

by Peter Swirski

Book Overview

Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre fiction as art, successive chapters look at American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319301071
• ISBN13: 9783319301075
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.7"