Preface: The Resistance to Pop Acknowledgments Part I "The Battle of the Brows" 1. A History of High and Low "Highbrow," "Lowbrow," "Middlebrow" "Folk" and "Soul" Dante's Republic "General Converse": Johnson and the Long Eighteenth Century "Similitude in Dissimilitude" Keats and Mediocrity Culture and Anarchy in the UK "The Battle of the Brows" "Kitsch" The Myth of Popular Culture 2. Pop Culture in the Spectator Poems of the People Canons and "Camp" Base and Superstructure, Soma and Psyche 3. Pop and Postmodernism The Social Self Andy Warhol "Hey, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair" Part II Dialectics of Pop 4. The Death of Kings: American Fiction from Cooper to Chandler "Paleface" and "Redskin," Cowboy and Dandy Pathfinding: Cooper and Mark Twain Labor, Leisure, Love: Melville, James, Hemingway Transatlantic: Raymond Chandler 5. Knock on Any Door: Three Histories of Hollywood Ars Gratia Artis Benjamin, Bazin, Eisenstein Dialectics of Directing: Hawks, Welles, Scorsese Dialectics of Acting: Barrymore, Bogart, Brando Blonde on Blonde: Harlow and Monroe Hang 'Em High: Welles, Lewis, Eastwood 6. The Blues Misreading of Gospel: A History of Rock and Roll A Scandal in Bohemia Jazz Myth, Jazz Reality Soul Synthesis Plugging In Buddy Holly and the British Invasion The Body English Part III The World of Bob Dylan 7. Dylan and the Critics Falling The Limits of Typology Dylan as Poet 8.

Words and Music Fractions "Slippin' and Slidin'" Dylan and Deferred Action 9. Dylan Himself The Death of the Author The Grand Tour and the Middle Passage Hortatory 10. The Three Icons: Sinatra, Presley, Dylan Iconography and Gender The Fedora as Phallus Elvis as Bobbysoxer "My Darling Young One" Works Cited Index.