Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority

by Susanna Lee

Book Overview

The cynical but kind-hearted detective is the soul of the classic hard-boiled story, that chronicle of world-weary urban pessimism. In Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority, Susanna Lee argues that this fiction functions as a measure for individual responsibility in the modern world and that it demonstrates the enduring status of individual conscience across a variety of cultural crises. In this major rethinking of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814253733
• ISBN13: 9780814253731
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"