Author : Brooks E. Hefner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624801
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis "I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now" by : Brooks E. Hefner
Download or read book "I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now" written by Brooks E. Hefner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article reads Willard Huntington Wright's work against his anxieties about cultural hierarchy and value, utilizing archival work in Wright's papers at the University of Virginia and unearthing a previously unknown series of crime stories that he published under another pseudonym a decade before his success as bestselling detective novelist S. S. Van Dine. The author argues that Wright's work in popular fiction provides a special opportunity for interrogating the highbrow/lowbrow divide and its phrenological roots. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 30, Issue 1.