Middlebrow literary cultures: the battle of the brows, 1920-1960

Middlebrow literary cultures: the battle of the brows, 1920-1960

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The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, isthe site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to thisday. 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. ERICA BROWN Associate Lecturer in the Department of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and Administrator and Web Manager of the AHRC-funded Middlebrow Research Network. MARY GROVER Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the author of 'The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping: Middlebrow Authorship and Cultural Embarrassment' (2009) and a founder of Sheffield Hallam University's special collection of popular fiction, ''Readerships and LiteraryCultures, 1900-1950''. INDICE: 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

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-29836-1
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 256
  • Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés