Böcker av John Cullen Gruesser

Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history.

Examines the history of detective fiction from 1841 to 1940, a period which spawned some of its greatest writers. It includes analysis of stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Susan Glaspell, Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich, Chester Himes, and Ralph Ellison.