"I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now": Phrenology, Detection, and Cultural Hierarchy in S. S. Van Dine.
| Autor: | Hefner, Brooks E. |
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| Zdroj: | Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company); Spring2012, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p30-41, 12p |
| Abstrakt: | 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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