Middlebrow Matters
Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque
dc.contributor.author | Holmes, Diana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-22 23:55 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-01 23:55:55 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-16 03:00:26 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-01T10:56:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-01T10:56:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10-31 | |
dc.identifier | 1004081 | |
dc.identifier | OCN: 1100490961 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26001 | |
dc.description.abstract | Middlebrow 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.language | English | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures | |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Languages | |
dc.subject.other | Literary studies | |
dc.subject.other | fiction | |
dc.subject.other | novelists & prose writers | |
dc.subject.other | France | |
dc.subject.other | English | |
dc.subject.other | French | |
dc.title | Middlebrow Matters | |
dc.title.alternative | Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque | |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.2307/j.ctvt1sk8w | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | 4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc | |
oapen.relation.isFundedBy | b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9781786949523 | |
oapen.collection | Knowledge Unlatched (KU) | |
oapen.place.publication | Liverpool | |
oapen.grant.number | 102590 | |
oapen.grant.program | KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books | |
oapen.identifier.isbn | 9781786949523 | |
grantor.number | 102590 | |
oapen.identifier.ocn | 1100490961 |