The latest issue of American Literature (Volume 90, Issue 1, March 2018) features a new article by Dr Will Norman, Director of the Centre for American Studies and Reader in American Literature and Culture.
In this article, entitled ‘Hard-Boiled Literary History: Labor and Style in Fictions of the Culture Industry’, Norman argues for a new understanding of the term hard-boiled by tracing the relationship between literary style and historical shifts in intellectual labor in the mid-twentieth-century United States.
American Literature is published by Duke University Press, and the issue containing this article can be found here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/issue/90/1.