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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality

by Leonard Cassuto
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Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue—centered on the power of sympathy—between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
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Publisher: Columbia University Press

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  • Release date: November 21, 2008

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  • ISBN: 9780231501651
  • Release date: November 21, 2008

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  • ISBN: 9780231501651
  • File size: 4910 KB
  • Release date: November 21, 2008

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History Literary Criticism Nonfiction

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English

Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue—centered on the power of sympathy—between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.
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History Literary Criticism Nonfiction
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