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The New Literary Middlebrow
Author | : B. Driscoll |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137402929 |
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The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include Oprah's Book Club, the Man Booker Prize and the Harry Potter phenomenon.
Middlebrow Literary Cultures
Author | : E. Brown,M. Grover |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230354647 |
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The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational.
Married Middlebrow and Militant
Author | : Teresa Mangum |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0472109774 |
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Examines the life and work of this daring nineteenth-century author and women's rights advocate
Modernism Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Author | : Lise Jaillant |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317317760 |
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In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mix of highbrow and popular literature and argues that the availability and low cost of modernist works helped to expand modernism's influence as a literary movement.
The Making of Middlebrow Culture
Author | : Joan Shelley Rubin |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807864265 |
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The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it. Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the beginnings of "great books" programs; the creation of the New York Herald Tribune's book-review section; the popularity of such works as Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy; and the emergence of literary radio programs. She also investigates the lives and expectations of the individuals who shaped these middlebrow institutions--such figures as Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Erskine, William Lyon Phelps, Alexander Woollcott, and Clifton Fadiman. Moreover, as she pursues the significance of these cultural intermediaries who connected elites and the masses by interpreting ideas to the public, Rubin forces a reconsideration of the boundary between high culture and popular sensibility.
Middlebrow Matters
Author | : Diana Holmes |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781786941565 |
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This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the types of novel that have attracted 'ordinary' fiction readers - in their majority female - since the end of the 19th century.
Caribbean Middlebrow
Author | : Belinda Edmondson |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Black people |
ISBN | : 080144814X |
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It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture--which is considered derivative of Europe--and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival, calypso, and reggae. This book recovers a middle ground, a genuine popular culture in the English-speaking Caribbean that stretches back into the nineteenth century. It shows that popular novels, beauty pageants, and music festivals are examples of Caribbean culture that are mostly created, maintained, and consumed by the Anglophone middle class. Much of middle-class culture is further gendered as "female": women are more apt to be considered recreational readers of fiction, for example, and women's behavior outside the home is often taken as a measure of their community's respectability. The book also highlights the influence of American popular culture, especially African American popular culture, as early as the nineteenth century.
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s to 1950s
Author | : Nicola Humble |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199269335 |
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Humble presents a study of the novels by and for middle-class women that dominated the publishing market in the first half of the 20th century. She studies the work of authors such as Agatha Christie alongside cultural products such as cookery books.