{"product_id":"imperial-middlebrow-9789004426559","title":"Imperial Middlebrow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, takes middlebrow studies further in two ways. First, it focuses on the role middlebrow writing played in the popularisation and dissemination of imperial ideology. It combines the interest in the wider function of literature for a colonial society with close scrutiny of the ideological and socio-economic contexts of writers and readers. The essays cover the Girl’s Own Paper, fiction about colonial India including its appearance in Scottish writing, the West Indies, the South Pacific, as well as illustrations of Haggard’s South African imperial romances. Second, the volume proposes using the concept of the middlebrow as an analytical tool to read recent Black and Asian British as well as Nigerian fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors   Introduction: Cross-colonial Encounters and Expressions of Power in Middlebrow Literature and Culture, 1890–1940 and the Present    Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch    A Girl’s Own Empire? Imperialism and the Girl’s Own Paper, 1880 to 1903    Jochen Petzold    Picturing Africa: Illustration in the Allan Quatermain Adventure Fictions of H. Rider Haggard    Kate Holterhoff    “Cramful of snakes and ghosts”: B.M. Croker’s Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories    Christoph Singer    “An artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be cool”: Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow Aesthetics    Samuel Caddick    Imagining the British West Indies in Middlebrow Fiction    Jana Gohrisch    “Intimacies of complicity and critique”: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Victoria Cross’s Imperial Fiction    Cornelia Wächter    Cross-colonial Encounters and Cultural Contestation in Somerset Maugham’s “Rain”    Victoria Kuttainen    Revising the Romance: Depictions of Biracial Women and Mixed Marriage in Anglo-Indian Popular Fiction    Melissa Edmundson    “A small seasoning of curry-powder” in A.J. Cronin’s Hatter’s Castle    Robert Wirth    Sidelining Racism and Discrimination – Recent British Black and Asian Fiction    Gesa Stedman    Middlebrow 2.0: The Digital Affect and the New Nigerian Novel    Hannah Pardey     Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210797572439,"sku":"9789004426559","price":110.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imperial-middlebrow-9789004426559","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}