Books by Ruth Pirsig Wood

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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 tradi