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Here, critics agreed, was the literary landscape of the low: inexpensive books with hard-hitting stories and fast-paced writing, their covers promising the “inside” story, “true” romance, or “frank, uninhibited” tales of violent emotions.2 In the northern New Jersey community where I grew up, excursions out of the middlebrow were allowed only if we took the high road. s, and the mildly salacious novels alternately referred to as “sexy” or “sleazy” - defined for the middle classes the demimonde of the socially deviant and the culturally impoverished. Allison visits her mother and makes peace. Swain testifies about performing the abortion, revealing to the jury the extent of the abuse that Selena experienced from her stepfather.

One way was to follow the road marked “Literature” and take up the kinds of “serious” books cultural authorities deemed both universal and timeless.1 The other was to embrace the reading habits of what Margaret Widdemer called the “tabloid addict class,” whose proclivities for cheap paperback novels-mysteries, romances, science fiction, western. When Allison learns that Selena has been arrested for the murder, she returns to Peyton Place. GEORGE SAINTSBURY, A History of Criticism For readers of books in the 1950s, there were two ways to traverse the borders of middlebrow culture and taste. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:

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