"I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now"

Phrenology, Detection, and Cultural Hierarchy in S. S. Van Dine

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Mystery & Detective Fiction
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Author: Brooks E. Hefner ISBN: 9781476624808
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: November 2, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Brooks E. Hefner
ISBN: 9781476624808
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: November 2, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

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.

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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.

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