- Title
- Wharton to Hemingway to Highsmith: American Noir Comes of Age
- Author/Creator
- Parley Ann Boswell
- Publication Details
- Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism, pp.232-52
- Annotation
- Identifying the three authors as "literary links in the evolution of American noir," Boswell argues that Wharton's examination of the dark side of marriage, greed, and power in The Age of Innocence (1920) anticipates the noir genre and that Hemingway's To Have and Have Not and "The Killers" are classic noir due in part to their shocking storylines and depiction of powerlessness and violence. Concludes that Patricia Highsmith's 1950 Strangers on a Train extends the noir genre through her engagement with these same themes found in Wharton and Hemingway. Includes an examination of film adaptations of each work.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136395103691
Book chapter
Wharton to Hemingway to Highsmith: American Noir Comes of Age
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism, pp.232-52
2019
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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