The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880–1950

1. Introduction: Identifying the Middlebrow, the Masculine and Mr Miniver
Kate Macdonald

2. Reading Class, Examining Men: Anthologies, Education and Literary Cultures
Sue McPherson

3. The Evolution of the Masculine Middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett and Priestley
Clive E. Hill

4. ‘Watching the Papers Daily in Fear and Trembling’: The Boer War and the Invention of Masculine Middlebrow Literary Culture
Jonathan Wild

5. Professionalism and the Cultural Politics of Work in the Sherlock Holmes Stories
Clare Clarke

6. From Holmes to the Drones: Fantasies of Men without Women in the Masculine Middlebrow
Nicola Humble

7. Healing Landscapes and Evolving Nationalism in Interwar Canadian Middlebrow Fiction of the First World War
Amy Tector

8. ‘Everybody’s Essayist’: On Middles and Middlebrows
Caroline Pollentier

9. Modernity and the Gendering of Middlebrow Book Culture in Australia
David Carter

10. ‘Mind’s Middle Distances’: Men of Letters in Interwar New Zealand
Christopher Hilliard

11. The Political Middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell
Anna Vaninskaya

12. The Collaborator, the Tyrant and the Resistance: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Masculine ‘Middlebrow’ England in the Second World War
Ann Rea

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature