Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture (Renewing the American Narrative)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: What Would Robert Mitchum Do? The Cultural Production of Pulp Virilities
	A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be
	Populism, Resentment, and Pulp Virilities
	Hard-Boiled, Pulp, Noir: The Genres of Pulp Virility
	References
Chapter 2: The Eisenhower Blues: Returning GIs and Racial Masquerade
	The Anxieties of Affluence
	Unlovable Losers: Elegies for the Urban Working Class
	Authentic Bearers of Alienation: Racial Encounters
	References
Chapter 3: Pulp Sexualities: Gender and American Popular Crime Fiction at Midcentury
	Highbrow Heroes: The Remasculinization of American Crime Fiction
	Femmes Fatales: Gender, Sexuality, and the Book Market
	Women Who Kill: Vera Caspary’s Domestic Noir
	References
Chapter 4: Run Man Run: Black Urban Crime Fiction in the 1960s and 1970s
	Mean Streets: Urban Paranoia and Persecution
	Walkers and Runners: Chester Himes
	Promised Land: The L.A. Street Fiction of Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines
	“Los Angeles and Me Had Had Enough of Each Other”: Militant Virilities
	References
Chapter 5: Nightmare Alleys: The Afterlives of Pulp Virility
	Post-Pulp: 1960 and After
	Detective Fiction for the Great Society: Ross Macdonald
	The Best a Man Can Do: Donald Westlake and Company
	Losing More Slowly: Nightmares and Neo Neo-Noir
	Pandemic Pulp: Panic in the Streets
	References
Index