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Smith, Erin Ann. "Hardboiled Readers; Workers, Consumer Culture, and Pulp Magazines, 1923-1951," Program in Literature, Duke University, December 1996.
This work studies the American hard-boiled detective fiction and the readers who encountered it in pulp magazines and cheap paperbacks in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. This work examines the publishing history of pulp magazines, library research on 1930s reading habits, social and labor history, close readings of hard-boiled stories and pulp magazine ads to uncover the cultural work of this fiction in the lives of the white, working-class men who were its targeted audience. I am concerned with these readers as “poachers,” readers who actively appropriated these texts to make sense of their Taylor-ed workplaces, the emergence of consumer culture, and the increasingly mixed-sex communities they inhabited.
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