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Author Pirsig Wood, Ruth

Title Lolita in Peyton Place : Highbrow, Middlebrow, and LowBrow Novels of the 1950s
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (176 pages)
Series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Contents Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter one: Lolita in Peyton Place; Chapter two: Quintessential Middlebrow: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Does ""The Best He Can with the World as He Sees It""; Chapter three: The Novel and Its Readership from Descartes to the Mauve Decade; Chapter four: The Shape of the Brows; Chapter five: Facing War in Fifties Fiction; Chapter six: The Divided Self; Chapter seven: Highbrow, Lowbrow, and the Law; Chapter eight: Mopping My Brows; Appendix: The Fifties; Bibliography; Index
Summary First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Best sellers -- United States -- Bibliography
Moral conditions in literature.
Social values in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Ethics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
Best sellers
Books and reading
Ethics in literature
Literature and society
Moral conditions in literature
Popular literature
Sex role in literature
Social values in literature
United States
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317777496
1317777492