Lolita in Peyton Place: Highbrow, Middlebrow, and LowBrow Novels of the 1950s (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)

Separating popular fiction into lowbrow and middlebrow, Wood (U. of Wisconsin, River Falls) argues that lowbrow, like highbrow, evolves from folkloric tradition and contains messages about how to find a satisfying niche in the social order. Middlebrow, on the other hand, evolves from myth tradit