The New Literary Middlebrow

The New Literary Middlebrow
Author: B. Driscoll
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113740292X

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.

The New Literary Middlebrow

The New Literary Middlebrow
Author: B. Driscoll
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137402912

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

Middlebrow Literary Cultures
Author: E. Brown
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230354645

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.

The Making of Middlebrow Culture

The Making of Middlebrow Culture
Author: Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807864269

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.

Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon

Modernism, Middlebrow and the Literary Canon
Author: Lise Jaillant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317317777

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.

Middlebrow Matters

Middlebrow Matters
Author: Diana Holmes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786941562

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

Caribbean Middlebrow
Author: Belinda Edmondson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: Black people
ISBN: 9780801448140

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 New Literary Middlebrow

The New Literary Middlebrow
Author: B. Driscoll
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113740292X

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.

Miss Mole

Miss Mole
Author: E.H. Young
Publisher: Virago
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0349014124

'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy, and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally Beauman WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places? Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself, at different times, as an explorer in strange lands, as a lady wrapped in luxury and delicate garments?' Miss Hannah Mole has for twenty years earned her living precariously as a governess or companion to a succession of difficult old women.Now, aged forty, a thin and shabby figure, she returns to Radstowe, the lovely city of her youth. Here she is, if not exactly welcomed, at least employed as housekeeper by the pompous Reverend Robert Corder, whose daughters are sorely in need of guidance. But even the dreariest situation can be transformed into an adventure by the indomitable Miss Mole. Blessed with imagination, wit and intelligence, she wins the affection of Ethel and her nervous sister Ruth. But her past holds a secret that, if brought to life, would jeopardise everything.

The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s

The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s
Author: Nicola Humble
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198186762

The work of over thirty novelists is covered, read alongside other discourses as diverse as cookery books, child-care manuals, and the reports of Mass Observation. Investigating the nature of the feminine middlebrow and its readers, the author considers its variously radical and conservative remakings of ideas of class, the home, the family and gender."--BOOK JACKET.