Rats Behind the Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler’s The Big Sleep

Authors

Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton CollegeFollow

Type of Work

Article

Date

Summer 1980

Journal Title

Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Journal ISSN

0040-4691

Journal Volume

22

Journal Issue

2

First Page

224

Last Page

245

Citation Information

Rabinowitz, Peter J., "Rats Behind the Wainscoting: Politics, Convention, and Chandler’s The Big Sleep" (1980). Hamilton Digital Commons.
https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/articles/80

Notes

Reprinted in The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler, edited by J. K. Van Dover (Greenwood Press, 1995): 117-137; in Raymond Chandler: A Documentary Volume (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 253), edited by Robert F. Moss (The Gale Group, 2002): 297-312; in paperback version of above, Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference, edited by Robert F. Moss (Caroll & Graff, 2003): 297-312; in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 179, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau (Thomson-Gale, 2007): 68-79; condensed version reprinted in Twentieth‑Century Literary Criticism, Volume 7, edited by Sharon K. Hall (Gale Research Company, 1982)

Hamilton Areas of Study

Literature and Creative Writing