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246 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780312294816
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Edition Pub Date: 06 February 2003
Description
This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The S...
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246 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780312294816
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Edition Pub Date: 06 February 2003
Description
This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The S...