The Cowboy and the Dandy

Perry Meisel is Professor of English at New York University. Over the past 25 years he has written about both Romantic literature and rock and roll music, the first as the author of The Myth of the Modern, The Absent Father: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater, and Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed; the second as critic and reviewer for The Village Voice, Crawdaddy, and The Boston Phoenix.He is also editor of Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays, and coeditor of Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924- 25.

• 1: The Country and the City 2: Wilde West 3: Influence and Originality in the Blues tradition 4: The Psychedelic Sublime 5: "I Second that Emotion" 6: Willa Cather and the Art of the "Cross Stitch" 7: Miles Apart? 8: Virginia Woolf's Crosswriting 9: The Body English A Coda on Canonicity and Mythology

...Perry Meisel's ambitious and yet playful new book...treats literary Romanticism from Shelley to Willa Cather, and Romantic rock and roll from King Curtis to the Ramones....much of this book may be 'outrageous?