Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture

Arthur Redding is Professor of English at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches American literature. He has written four books and numerous articles about such topics as anarchism and writing, the culture of the Cold War, contemporary gothic fiction, and American public intellectuals.

“The book is deeply researched, rooted in and expanding earlier academic work on the hard boiled, pulp, and noir genres and their depictions of masculinities. The thorough research and theoretical basis set the stage for the author’s convincing close readings of well- and lesser known novels and films from these genres.” (Mareike Spychala, Crime Fiction Studies, Vol. 5 (1), 2024)

• 1. What Would Robert Mitchum Do? The Cultural Production of Pulp Virilities.- 2. The Eisenhower Blues: Returning GIs and Racial Masquerade.- 3. Pulp Sexualities: Gender and American Popular Crime Fiction at Midcentury.- 4. Run Man Run: Black Urban Crime Fiction in the 1960s and 1970s.- 5. Nightmare Alleys: The Afterlives of Pulp Virility.