Dockers and Detectives

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Five Leaves, 2008 - Literary Criticism - 160 pages
Ken Worpole analyses the appeal of 'hardboiled' US crime novels of the 1930s to an industrial working class that failed to identify with the tamed domesticity of the home counties.

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Dockers and Detectives: Popular Reading, Popular Writing
Ken Worpole
Snippet view - 1983

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TitleDockers and Detectives
AuthorKen Worpole
Edition2, reprint
PublisherFive Leaves, 2008
ISBN1905512376, 9781905512379
Length160 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
  
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