Men Alone.Masculinity, Individualism, and Hard-Boiled Fiction.

Jopi Nyman

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American and British Literature Analysis Crime and Detective Fiction Studies Modern American Literature Studies

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Preface. 1. INTRODUCTION. 1.1. Aims. 1.2. Texts. 2. GENRE AND GENDER. 2.1. The Emergence of Hard-Boiled Fiction. 2.2. Masculinity Embodied. 2.3. Gender and Social Change. 2.4. Gender and Adventure. 3. CONSTRUCTING HARD-BOILED MASCULINITY. 3.1. Body. 3.2. Codes of Manhood. 3.3. Language and Control. 4. THE FICTION OF INDIVIDUALISM. 4.1. Autonomy and Individualism. 4.2. The Autonomous Male. 4.3. The Individual Self. 4.4. The Destruction of Individualism. 5. THE LOSS OF IDEALISM. 5.1. Dreams Deferred in The Postman Always Rings Twice. 5.2. The End of Humanity in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 5.3. A Tragedy of Idealism in To Have and Have Not. 5.4. Alienation in Red Harvest. 6. MEN, DREAMS, AND ORDER. 6.1. Hard-Boiled Sentimentalists. 6.2. Masculine Omnipotence. 6.3. A World of Order. 6.4. Gendered Saviours. 7. CONCLUSION. BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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