Hard-Boiled Sentimentality - by Leonard Cassuto (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 <em>The Big Sleep</em> and <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Cassuto has profitably plowed new ground in this study. It's certain to become an essential document for undersatnding crime fiction's inner workings.--African American Review<br><br>This is an erudite, illuminating and highly readable study--Journal of American Studies<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Leonard Cassuto is professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in academic journals and popular periodicals ranging from the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> to Salon.com. He is the author of <i>The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture</i> and the general editor of the forthcoming<i> Cambridge History of the American Novel</i>.
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