Title Middlebrow Literary Cultures : the Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Middlebrow Matters; Part I Cultural Contexts; 1 Middlebrow Reading and Undergraduate Teaching: The Place of the Middlebrow in the Academy; 2 Configuring Middleness: Bourdieu, l'Art Moyen and the Broadbrow; Part II Taste-Makers and Print CulturesI: UK; I: UK; 3 Cultural Hierarchies and the Interwar British Press; 4 Priestley and the Highbrows; 5 Aesthetics for Everyman: Arnold Bennett's Evening Standard Columns; 6 'A Strongly Felt Need': Wilfred Whitten/John O'London and the Rise of the New Reading Public II: US7 The Excluded Middle: Cultural Polemics and Magazines in America, 1915-1933; 8 'Intellectual in Its Looser Sense': Reading Mencken's Smart Set; 9 Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority and Autonomous Readers in Post-war America: James Gould Cozzens, Dwight Macdonald and By Love Possessed; Part III Categorization and Valuation; 10 The Returning Reader: Canadian Serial Fiction and Mazo de la Roche's Jalna Novels; 11 Illustrating Mary Poppins: Visual Culture and the Middlebrow; 12 Imagism, Realism, Surrealism: Middlebrow Transformations in the Mass-Observation Project 13 The Queer Pleasures of Reading: Camp and the MiddlebrowAfterword; Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Literary studies: from c 1900 -. Literature. English literature Literature and society Popular literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Grover, Mary ISBN 9780230354647 0230354645

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