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.
- Praise for Hard-Boiled Sentimentality
- Title Page
- Copyright © 2009 Leonard Cassuto
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Sentimentality, Sympathy, Serial Killers
- Part I: Revising the roots of the hard-boiled tradition
- 1 Crime and Sympathy
- 2 Hammett and the Hard-Boiled Sentimental
- Part II: Reading the hard-boiled sentimental
- 3 Depression Domesticity
- 4 The Sentimental Action Hero in Cold War Crime Stories
- 5 Sentimental Perversion: The canonized nonconformists of the fifties
- Part III: Crime fiction at the sentimental apocalypse
- 6 The Homely Heart of the Hard-Boiled
- 7 Hard-Boiled Therapists, Hard-Boiled Women, and a Vigilante
- 8 Shades of Professional Sympathy, race, crime, detection
- 9 The Rise of the Serial Killer
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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