War Noir: Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction

by Sarah Trott

Based on Chandler's experience in combat, Trott explains that the writer created detective Philip Marlowe not as the idealization of heroic individualism, as is commonly perceived, but instead as an authentic individual subjected to very real psychological frailties from trauma during the First World War. Inspecting Chandler's work and correspondence indicates that the characterization of the fictional Marlowe goes beyond the traditional chivalric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496808649
• ISBN13: 9781496808646
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"