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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.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Middlebrow Matters
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Taste-Makers and Print Cultures
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Categorization and Valuation
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Afterword
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Back Matter
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"It is fitting . . . that Faye Hammill should bring Middlebrow Literary Cultures to a close in an Afterword where she quotes from
Raymond Williams's Culture and Society, 1780 1950 (1958): 'There are in fact no middlebrows; there are only ways of seeing people and books as middlebrow' (p. 300). Middlebrow Literary Cultures is a stimulating and scholarly addition to this long-running debate, and an indispensable extension to our continuing enquiries into the complications and vagaries of critical reception." - Cambridge Quarterly 2013
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
JOHN BAXENDALE Visiting Fellow in the Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
ADRIAN BINGHAM Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Sheffield, UK
KRISTIN BLUEMEL Professor of English, Monmouth University, UK
JANET GALLIGANI CASEY Professor of English, Skidmore College, New York, USA
SHARON HAMILTON Academic Dean, The International University, Vienna, Austria
NICOLA HUMBLE Professor of English, Roehampton University, UK
NICK HUBBLE Senior Lecturer in English, Brunel University, UK
VICTORIA KINGHAM Independent Scholar, UK
CAROLINE POLLENTIER Doctoral Student, Paris Diderot University, France
CANDIDA RIFKIND Assistant Professor, University of Winnipeg, Canada
JOHN SHAPCOTT Honorary Research Fellow, Research Institute for Humanities, Keele University, UK
JOAN SHELLEY RUBIN Professor of History, University of Rochester, USA
JONATHAN WILD Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Middlebrow Literary Cultures
Book Subtitle: The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960
Editors: Erica Brown, Mary Grover
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354647
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29836-1Published: 30 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33452-0Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-35464-7Published: 30 November 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 244
Topics: European Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature