Crime and Sympathy

Book chapter

Leonard Cassuto

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, pp.24-46

2009

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Title: Crime and Sympathy
Author/Creator: Leonard Cassuto
Publication Details: Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, pp.24-46
Annotation: Examines the roots of hard boiled crime fiction, primarily focusing on Dreiser s An American Tragedy (1925). Parallels Hemingway with Dreiser through the way that their anti-sentimentality contains a sentimentality which fundamentally informs their projects and those of their literary descendants. Looks at Hemingway s style of anti-sentimental sentimentality in In Our Time, A Farewell to Arms, The Killers, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015132034203691