Description: Truman Gumshoes : The Postwar Detective Fiction of Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, Wade Miller and Bart Spicer, Paperback by Van Dover, J. K., ISBN 1476688028, ISBN-13 9781476688022, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US ""The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction. It offers the first substantial literary analysis of the Max Thursday novels of Wade Miller and the Carney Wilde novels of Bart Spicer, and it develops new perspectives on the well-known Mike Hammer novels of Mickey Spillane and the Lew Archer novels of Ross Macdonald. A particular focus is upon the theme of the detective's status as a loner who succeeds in discovering truth and achieving justice because he works outside organized social structures."-Provided by publisher"--
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Book Title: Truman Gumshoes : The Postwar Detective Fiction of Mickey Spillan
Number of Pages: 195 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Truman Gumshoes : The Postwar Detective Fiction of Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, Wade Miller and Bart Spicer
Publisher: Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Item Height: 0.4 in
Subject: Mystery & Detective
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Author: J. K. Van Dover
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
