TY - GEN digital ID - 131563648 TI - American Crime Fiction : A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art PY - 2016 SN - 9783319301082 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Literature KW - Amerindian literature KW - detectiveromans KW - literatuur KW - Amerikaanse cultuur KW - Hammett, Dashiell KW - Chandler, Raymond Thornton KW - DeMille, Nelson KW - Faulkner, William KW - Hemingway, Ernest KW - Fitzgerald, F. Scott KW - McBain, Ed KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131563648 AB - This book looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such it 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 crime writers whose careers throw light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics: Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ER -