Dockers and Detectives
by Worpole, Ken
Books and readingEnglish Working class writingsEnglish literatureHistory and criticismIntellectual lifePopular literatureWorking classWorking class in literature
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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