Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American Crime Fiction

In recent years, and with increasing frequency, Cornell Woolrich has been categorized as a member of the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and one of its most important early practitioners. Objections to this categorization notwithstanding, Woolrich’s stories provide critical counterpoints to the work of his better-known contemporaries and to some of the taken-for-granted conventions of early hard-boiled crime fiction. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 28, Issue 2.

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Christine Photinos is an associate professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities at National University in San Diego, where she teaches literature, film, and composition. Her articles have appeared in journals such as AmeriQuests, Women’s Studies, the Journal of Popular Culture, and the Journal of American Culture, and in the collection Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction (McFarland, 2009).

Christine Photinos
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Copyright Date: 2010
eISBN: 978-1-4766-2476-1

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