Middlebrow literary cultures

The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960

Bibliographic Data

ID8124019
EditorsErica Brown (0000-0002-9562-5374, corresponding author), Mary Grover
Year2011
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMiddlebrow Literary Cultures (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230354647
OpenAlexW1777230838
ISBN9780230354647
LanguageEN
Citations received17

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Middlebrow Matters E.Brown & M.Grover PART I: CULTURAL CONTEXTS Middlebrow Reading and Undergraduate Teaching: The Place of the Middlebrow in the Academy J.G.Casey Configuring Middleness: Bourdieu, le Art Moyen, and the Broad-Brow C.Pollentier PART II: TASTE-MAKERS AND PRINT CULTURES I: UK Cultural Hierarchies and the Inter-War British Press A.Bingham Priestley and the Highbrows J.Baxendale Aesthetics for Everyman: Arnold Bennett's Evening Standard Columns J.Shapcott 'A Strongly Felt Need': Wilfred Whitten/John O'London and the Rise of the New Reading Public J.Wild II: US The Excluded Middle: Cultural Polemics and Magazines in America, 1915-1933 V.Kingham 'Intellectual in its looser sense': Reading Mencken's Smart Set S.Hamilton Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority, and Autonomous Readers in Postwar America: James Gould Cozzens, Dwight Macdonald, and By Love Possessed J.S.Rubin PART III: CATEGORISATION AND VALUATION The Returning Reader: Serial Middlebrow and Mazo de la Roche's Jalna Novels C.Rifkind Illustrating Mary Poppins: Visual Culture and the Middlebrow K.Bluemel Imagism, Realism, Surrealism: Middlebrow Transformations in the Mass-Observation Project N.Hubble The Queer Pleasures of Reading: Camp and the Middlebrow N.Humble Afterword F.Hammill Index

Art · Art history · Literacy · Literature · Middlebrow · Orality · Sociology · Taste · Irish and British Studies · Psychology · History

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