Hardboiled Feminism: Vera Caspary's Laura as a Revision of ...
Hardboiled Feminism: Vera Caspary’s Laura as a Revision of the Detective Genre BRIAN MATZKE I N VERA CASPARY’S LAURA (1942), THE TITLE CHARACTER LAURA Hunt has the following exchange with detective Mark McPherson: She said, “You don’t seem at all like a detective.”“Have you ever known any detectives?”“In detective stories there are two kinds, the hardboiled ones who are always ...
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