Hard-boiled masculinities
By: Christopher Breu.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Sex role in literature; Men in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wearing the Black mask; title: Going blood-simple in Poisonville; title: The hard-boiled male travels abroad; title: Not your average Joe; title: Freudian knot or Gordian knot?.