When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow

Peter Swirski is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and American Literature. Listed in Canadian Who’s Who, he is a multiple Amazon bestseller in his field and author of sixteen award-winning books, including From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005) and American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art (2016).Tero Eljas Vanhanen is a researcher and lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His has published in, among others, Philosophy and Literature, SubStance, and the Journal of American Studies.

• 1. Introduction — Browbeaten into Pulp: Nobrow Positions and Oppositions; Peter Swirski and Tero Eljas Vanhanen.- 2. Pop Culture and Nobrow Culture — From Li’l Abner to Discourse Theory and Back: A Culture Critic’s Odyssey; Arthur Berger.- 3. Nobrow, American Style: From Goldilocks to the Golden Mean; Peter Swirski.- 4. Middlebrow and Nobrow: Tracing Patterns Across Culture; Beth Driscoll.- 5. Prequels to Nobrow: Battles of the Brows from Socrates to Cervantes; Kenneth Krabbenhoft.- 6. Gothic Literature in America: The Nobrow Aesthetics of Murder and Madness.- Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.- 7. Neither Indian Reservation Nor Baboon Patriarchy: Science Fiction as Nobrow Phenomenon; Nicholas Ruddick.- 8. Mambo Clothing and Australian Nobrow: Wearable Art for a Global Audience; Christopher McAuliffe.- 9. Guilty Pleasures, orNobrow Treasures? Popular Judgment and the Affective Economy of Taste; David McAvoy.- 10. The Good, the Bad, and the Nobrow: Structures of Taste and Distaste in the Nobrow Age; Tero Eljas Vanhanen.- Bibliography.- Index.-