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dc.contributor.authorHolmes, Diana
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-22 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-01 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-16 03:00:26
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:56:54Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:56:54Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-31
dc.identifier1004081
dc.identifierOCN: 1100490961en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26001
dc.description.abstractMiddlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging experimentalism of the high and the formulaic drive of the popular, it enables a rethinking of the literary canon from the point of view of what most readers actually read, a criterion curiously absent from dominant definitions of literary value. Since women have long formed a majority of the nation’s reading public, this perspective immediately feminises what has always been a very male canon. Opening with a theorisation of the concept of middlebrow that mounts a defence of some literary qualities disdained by modernism, the book then focuses on a series of case studies of periods (the Belle Époque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irène Nemirovsky, Françoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesContemporary French and Francophone Cultures
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersen_US
dc.subject.otherLanguages
dc.subject.otherLiterary studies
dc.subject.otherfiction
dc.subject.othernovelists & prose writers
dc.subject.otherFrance
dc.subject.otherEnglish
dc.subject.otherFrench
dc.titleMiddlebrow Matters
dc.title.alternativeWomen's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.2307/j.ctvt1sk8w
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781786949523
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationLiverpool
oapen.grant.number102590
oapen.grant.programKU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books
oapen.identifier.isbn9781786949523
grantor.number102590
oapen.identifier.ocn1100490961


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