Middlebrow Literary Cultures
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Middlebrow Literary Cultures
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Author : E. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Middlebrow Literary Cultures written by E. Brown and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 New Literary Middlebrow
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Author : B. Driscoll
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-15
The New Literary Middlebrow written by B. Driscoll and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Transitions In Middlebrow Writing 1880 1930
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Author : K. Macdonald
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-03-22
Transitions In Middlebrow Writing 1880 1930 written by K. Macdonald and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
The Making Of Middlebrow Culture
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Author : Joan Shelley Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
The Making Of Middlebrow Culture written by Joan Shelley Rubin and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
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.
Middlebrow Matters
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Author : Diana Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Middlebrow Matters written by Diana Holmes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Masculine Middlebrow 1880 1950
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Author : K. Macdonald
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-10-04
The Masculine Middlebrow 1880 1950 written by K. Macdonald and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism.
The Making Of Middlebrow Culture
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Author : Joan S. Rubin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Making Of Middlebrow Culture written by Joan S. Rubin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with categories.
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s To 1950s
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Author : Nicola Humble
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2004
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s To 1950s written by Nicola Humble and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Humble presents a study of the novels by and for middle-class women that dominated the publishing market in the first half of the 20th century. She studies the work of authors such as Agatha Christie alongside cultural products such as cookery books.
The Single Woman Modernity And Literary Culture
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Author : Emma Sterry
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-06-22
The Single Woman Modernity And Literary Culture written by Emma Sterry and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated and derided for refusing to conform to societal expectations regarding femininity and sexuality. The different versions of single women presented in cultural narratives of this period—including the old maid, odd woman, New Woman, spinster, and flapper—were all sexually suspicious. The single woman, however, was really an amorphous figure who defied straightforward categorization. Emma Sterry explores depictions of such single women in transatlantic women’s fiction of the 1920s to 1940s. Including a diverse selection of renowned and forgotten writers, such as Djuna Barnes, Rosamond Lehmann, Ngaio Marsh, and Eliot Bliss, this book argues that the single woman embodies the tensions between tradition and progress in both middlebrow and modernist literary culture.
A Feeling For Books
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Author : Janice A. Radway
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
A Feeling For Books written by Janice A. Radway and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice Radway traces the history of the famous mail-order book club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an enterprise uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Framing her historical narrative with writing of a more personal sort, Radway reflects on the contemporary role of the Book-of-the-Month Club in American cultural history and in her own life. Her detailed account of the standards and practices employed by the club's in-house editors is also an absorbing story of her interactions with those editors. Examining her experiences as a fourteen-year-old reader of the club's selections and, later, as a professor of literature, she offers a series of rigorously analytical yet deeply personal readings of such beloved novels as Marjorie Morningstar and To Kill a Mockingbird. Rich and rewarding, this book will captivate and delight anyone who is interested in the history of books and in the personal and transformative experience of reading.