J. K. VAN DOVER is Professor of English at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He has published books on William Kennedy, Daniel Defoe, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ian Fleming, and others.

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction by J. K. Van Dover Chandler and the Reviewers: American and English Observations on a P.I.'s Progress, 1939-1964 by J. K. Van Dover A Cato of the Cruelties by R. W. Flint Philip Marlowe Speaking by R. W. Lid On Raymond Chandler by Fredric Jameson From Raymond Chandler and an American Genre by E. M. Beekman The Complex Art of Raymond Chandler by George N. Dove Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles by Tom S. Reck Rats Behind The Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler's The Big Sleep by Peter J. Rabinowitz From Aggressive Reading: Detective Fiction and Realistic Narrative by James Guetti Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep: A Paradigm for the Postwar American Family by Brian Gallagher Chivalry and Modernity in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep by Ernest Fontana The Function of Simile in Raymond Chandler's Novels by Stephen L. Tanner The Mind of the Hardboiled: Ross Macdonald and the Roles of Criticism by T. R. Steiner Raymond Chandler and the Business of Literature by Johanna M. Smith Narrative Symmetries in Farewell, My Lovely by J. K. Van Dover Bibliography Index

J. K. VAN DOVER is Professor of English at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He has published books on William Kennedy, Daniel Defoe, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ian Fleming, and others.

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction by J. K. Van Dover Chandler and the Reviewers: American and English Observations on a P.I.'s Progress, 1939-1964 by J. K. Van Dover A Cato of the Cruelties by R. W. Flint Philip Marlowe Speaking by R. W. Lid On Raymond Chandler by Fredric Jameson From Raymond Chandler and an American Genre by E. M. Beekman The Complex Art of Raymond Chandler by George N. Dove Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles by Tom S. Reck Rats Behind The Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler's The Big Sleep by Peter J. Rabinowitz From Aggressive Reading: Detective Fiction and Realistic Narrative by James Guetti Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep: A Paradigm for the Postwar American Family by Brian Gallagher Chivalry and Modernity in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep by Ernest Fontana The Function of Simile in Raymond Chandler's Novels by Stephen L. Tanner The Mind of the Hardboiled: Ross Macdonald and the Roles of Criticism by T. R. Steiner Raymond Chandler and the Business of Literature by Johanna M. Smith Narrative Symmetries in Farewell, My Lovely by J. K. Van Dover Bibliography Index

J. K. VAN DOVER is Professor of English at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He has published books on William Kennedy, Daniel Defoe, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ian Fleming, and others.

• Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction by J. K. Van Dover Chandler and the Reviewers: American and English Observations on a P.I.'s Progress, 1939-1964 by J. K. Van Dover A Cato of the Cruelties by R. W. Flint Philip Marlowe Speaking by R. W. Lid On Raymond Chandler by Fredric Jameson From Raymond Chandler and an American Genre by E. M. Beekman The Complex Art of Raymond Chandler by George N. Dove Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles by Tom S. Reck Rats Behind The Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler's The Big Sleep by Peter J. Rabinowitz From Aggressive Reading: Detective Fiction and Realistic Narrative by James Guetti Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep: A Paradigm for the Postwar American Family by Brian Gallagher Chivalry and Modernity in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep by Ernest Fontana The Function of Simile in Raymond Chandler's Novels by Stephen L. Tanner The Mind of the Hardboiled: Ross Macdonald and the Roles of Criticism by T. R. Steiner Raymond Chandler and the Business of Literature by Johanna M. Smith Narrative Symmetries in Farewell, My Lovely by J. K. Van Dover Bibliography Index