The street was mine : white masculinity in hardboiled fiction and film noir /

• Abbott, Megan E., 1971-

• Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
• Detective and mystery films -- United States -- History and criticism
• Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism
• City and town life in motion pictures
• Private investigators in literature
• City and town life in literature
• Masculinity in literature
• White men in literature
• Men in motion pictures
• Race in literature

• Palgrave Macmillan,

• 0312294816

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

• urban lifeworld formation perception representation
• Who was Baudelaire
• preface to Dickens
• naked city urban crime fiction in the USA
• mysteries of Paris and London
• Hallucinations life in the post modern city
• politics of story in Victorian social fiction
• mill on the Floss
• Charles Dickens
• Streetwalking the metropolis women the city and modernity
• art of detective fiction
• Hard boiled detective fiction
• industrial reformation of English fiction social discourse and narrative form 1832 1867
• Henry Irving and The bells
• Crime fiction from Poe to the present
• romantic imagination a casebook
• Dickens and the city
• language of turn and sequence
• Oscar Wilde
• literature of their own British women novelists from Bronte to Lessing
• Preaching pity Dickens Gaskell and sentimentalism in Victorian culture
• Pulp reading popular fiction
• working classes in Victorian fiction
• companion to Shakespeares works The comedies
• Conjuring black women fiction and literary tradition
• Mrs Gaskell the basis for reassessment
• Jean Rhys
• Wilde comedies Lady Windermeres fan A woman of no importance An ideal husband The importance of being Earnest a casebook
• Degeneration culture and the novel 1880 1940
• Virginia Woolf the common ground
• Humour in society resistance and control
• Shakespeares comedy of love
• writers diary being extracts from the diary of Virginia Woolf
• Cambridge companion to Oscar Wilde
• Before novels the cultural contexts of eighteenth century English fiction
• sensation novel from The woman in white to The moonstone
• Victorian women writers and the woman question
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• Cambridge companion to the Eighteenth Century novel
• Jean Rhys
• City of dreadful delight narratives of sexual danger in late Victorian London
• J G Ballard
• new feminist criticism essays on women literature and theory
• Reader I married him a study of the women characters of Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot
• Literary theory an introduction
• mirror and the lamp romantic theory and the critical tradition
• Toni Morrison
• Journal of the plague year authoritative text backgrounds contexts criticism
• country and the city
• Foe
• companion to Romanticism
• Romanticism
• rise of the novel studies in Defoe Richardson and Fielding
• English Renaissance 1500 1620
• introduction to functional grammar
• Texts and practices readings in critical discourse analysis
• Post colonialism a very short introduction
• Sexualtextual politics feminist literary theory
• Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton North and south
• Walking the Victorian streets women representation and the city
• Uneven developments the ideological work of gender in mid Victorian England
• Novels of the eighteen forties
• Beginning theory an introduction to literary and cultural theory
• social novel in England 1830 1850 Dickens Disraeli Mrs Gaskell Kingsley
• dialects of England
• Crash
• English fiction of the Victorian period 1830 1890
• country and the city
• Women in film noir
• fiction of Angela Carter
• English fiction of the Romantic period 1789 1830
• Angela Carter
• Prostitution and victorian society women class and the state
• Text and context explorations in the semantics and pragmatics ofdiscourse
• Romanticism
• Feminist readingsfeminists reading
• madwoman in the attic the woman writer and the nineteenth century literary imagination
• Sociolinguistic patterns
• English fiction of the Victorian period 1830 1890
• On the discourse of satire towards a stylistic model of satirical humor
• Victorian cities
• Literature and gender
• English poetry of the Romantic period 1789 1830
• Modernism
• Structures of social action studies in conversation analysis
• Romantics rebels and reactionaries English literature and its background 1760 1830
• Gender and theory dialogues on feminist criticism
• readers guide to contemporary feminist literary criticism
• Media knowledge and power a reader
• Victorian social problem novel the market the individual and communal life
• introduction to bilingualism
• feminist reader essays in gender and the politics of literary criticism
• improper feminine the womens sensation novel and the new woman writing
• Modernist fiction
• Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism
• Engendering fictions the English novel in the early twentieth century
• Power without responsibility the press broadcasting and new media in Britain
• Sociolinguistics a resource book for students
• introductory guide to post structuralism and postmodernism
• Discourse analysis