TY - BOOK ID - 145783784 TI - American crime fiction : a cultural history of Nobrow literature as art PY - 2016 SN - 9783319301075 PB - [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern KW - America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145783784 AB - 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 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 -