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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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
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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
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