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Hard-boiled : Working-class Readers and Pulp Magazines
author
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Smith, Erin A.
publisher
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Temple University Press
isbn10 | asin
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1566397693
print isbn13
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9781566397698
ebook isbn13
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9780585366746
language
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English
subject
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Popular literature--United States--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Periodicals--Pub
publication date
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2000
lcc
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PS374.D4S65 2000eb
ddc
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813/.087209052
subject
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Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Popular literature--United States--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Periodicals--Pub
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Hard-Boiled
Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines
Erin A. Smith
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Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright 2000 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2000 Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, Erin A. (Erin Ann), 1970 Hard-boiled: working-class readers and pulp magazines / Erin A. Smith. p. cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 1-56639-768-5 (alk. paper) ISBN 1-56639-769-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Detective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticism. 2. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Popular literatureUnited StatesHistory and criticism. 4. Literature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th century. 5. Periodicals PublishingUnited StatesHistory20th century. 6. Working classUnited StatesBooks and readingHistory20th century. 7. Detectives in literature. 8. Crime in literature. I. Title. PS374.D4 S65 2000 813'.087209052dc21 00-023424
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For my mother
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Part I: Reconstructing Readers
15
1 The Hard-Boiled Writer and the Literary Marketplace
18
2 The Adman On the Shop Floor: Workers, Consumer Culture, and the Pulps
43
Part II: Reading Hard-Boiled Fiction
75
3 Proletarian Plots
79
4 Dressed to Kill
103
5 Talking Tough
126
6 The Office Wife
150
Afterword
167
Notes
175
Index
211
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have incurred a great many material, intellectual, and emotional debts over the course of this project. A Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities paid for most of my graduate education and let me take a year off from teaching in order to write. The 199697 Simone de Beauvoir Named Instructorship in Literature from the Duke University Graduate School provided an additional semester's leave, and gave me the opportunity to teach a seminar on popular books and popular reading to ten of the brightest students a teacher could ever hope to have. George Fair, dean of the School of General Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, provided funds for travel to archives and conferences and for the preparation of this manuscript.
A number of intellectual communities shaped this project. The Literature Program at Duke University supported the kind of interdisciplinary work I wanted to do and provided me with a great many bright colleagues with whom to do it. Jan Radway's generosity, care, and friendship made this project possible. Cathy Davidson, Tom Ferraro, Karla Holloway, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith were supportive, critical readers. Nancy Hewitt provided sources, encouragement, and a seemingly inexhaustible list of readers' names. The writing life was a good deal less lonely than it might have been because of my writing group: Jennifer Parchesky, Alden Bumstead, Lisa Radinovsky, and Lily Philips, whose careful reading, fellowship, and encouragement made the early stages of this project go more smoothly. The North Carolina
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chapter of Sisters in Crime taught me a great deal not only about reading as a social practice but also about writing a book and surviving a graduate education. The humor, care, and warm collegiality of Jean O'Barr and Nancy Rosebaugh at Women's Studies made my years at Duke a great deal richer than they otherwise would have been.
A 1997 American Antiquarian Society Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, led by Joan Shelley Rubin and Meredith McGill, provided a vibrant intellectual community and a wealth of generous colleagues and friends who shared their work and offered feedback on mine. The Dallas Area Social History Circle provided the intellectual life, scholarly community, and friendships that have sustained me. The Gender Studies Working Group at the School of Arts and Humanities at UT-Dallas offered an interdisciplinary setting in which to share this work. I have benefited from the thoughtful comments of audience members at meetings of the American Studies Association; the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing; the American Literature Association; and the Center for Working-Class Studies. Finally, my students at Duke University and the University of Texas at Dallas continually remind me of why I care so passionately about popular culture and the links between material and cultural life. I owe special thanks to the students in my spring 1999 graduate seminar on ''Trashy Books" for the intellectual community and fellowship they provided.
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