Brown, Erica
Middlebrow Literary Cultures
1. Introduction: Middlebrow Matters
Erica Brown, Mary Grover
Part I. Cultural Contexts
2. Middlebrow Reading and Undergraduate Teaching: The Place of the Middlebrow in the Academy
Janet Galligani Casey
3. Configuring Middleness: Bourdieu,
Caroline Pollentier
Part II. Taste-Makers and Print Cultures
4. Cultural Hierarchies and the Interwar British Press
Adrian Bingham
5. Priestley and the Highbrows
John Baxendale
6. Aesthetics for Everyman: Arnold Bennett’s
John Shapcott
7. ‘A Strongly Felt Need’: Wilfred Whitten/John O’London and the Rise of the New Reading Public
Jonathan Wild
8. The Excluded Middle: Cultural Polemics and Magazines in America, 1915–1933
Victoria Kingham
9. ‘Intellectual in Its Looser Sense’: Reading Mencken’s
Sharon Hamilton
10. Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority and Autonomous Readers in Post-war America: James Gould Cozzens, Dwight Macdonald and
Joan Shelley Rubin
Part III. Categorization and Valuation
11. The Returning Reader: Canadian Serial Fiction and Mazo de la Roche’s Jalna Novels
Candida Rifkind
12. Illustrating
Kristin Bluemel
13. Imagism, Realism, Surrealism: Middlebrow Transformations in the Mass-Observation Project
Nick Hubble
14. The Queer Pleasures of Reading: Camp and the Middlebrow
Nicola Humble
15. Afterword
Faye Hammill
Keywords: Literature, European Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature
- Editor
- Brown, Erica
- Grover, Mary
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 256 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230354647
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-33452-0