{"product_id":"middlebrow-literary-cultures-9781349334520","title":"Middlebrow Literary Cultures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is fitting . . . that Faye Hammill should bring Middlebrow Literary Cultures to a close in an Afterword where she quotes from\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaymond 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Middlebrow Matters; E.Brown  \u0026amp; 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","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742413619543,"sku":"9781349334520","price":40.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781349334520.jpg?v=1758384795","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/middlebrow-literary-cultures-9781349334520","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}