Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

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Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction is written by P. Bedore and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137288655 (ISBN 10) and 9781137288653 (ISBN 13).

This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.