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Abstract Through detailed archival work, this book identifies a coherent intellectual and artistic tradition that critics of the 1940s called “middlebrow.” It began in literary circles in the 1910s as a response to the emergence of modernism, continued to grow and develop through the Second World War, and spread outward into music and ...
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Hastings Center Report, 2010
If you travel through airports, you can't help but notice it. Jodi Picoult's novels are everywhere. From Charlotte to Kansas City to Los Angeles, airport bookstores are consistently stocked with three or four or more of her most recent heavy volumes of fiction.
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If you travel through airports, you can't help but notice it. Jodi Picoult's novels are everywhere. From Charlotte to Kansas City to Los Angeles, airport bookstores are consistently stocked with three or four or more of her most recent heavy volumes of fiction.
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Resisting Middlebrow Mediation
2023Abstract This chapter traces the British reception of Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” op. 133 through the interwar period, considering the role recordings and live performances by the Léner and Kolisch Quartets, among others, had on interpretations of the piece.
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Introduction: Middlebrow Matters
2012The aim of this collection is to demonstrate that the middlebrow matters. The term ‘middlebrow’ itself, first used in the 1920s, is the product of powerful anxieties about cultural authority and processes of cultural transmission. It is a nexus for prejudice towards the lower middle classes, the feminine and domestic, and towards narrative modes ...
Erica Brown, Mary Grover
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Abstract This chapter examines the ways in which publishers attempted to enhance the commercial prospects of the novel in the late twentieth century by fostering the development of a middlebrow reading public through the inclusion of paratextual material such as interviews and “reading group” questions in paperback editions of novels ...
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2018
The Chinese had a word for it—wanbao quanshu. It’s a bibliographic term, which literally means “complete compendia of myriad treasures,” but an alternate translation might be “middlebrow.” These were encyclopedic works that distilled and summarized sophisticated science, history, and politics in cheap, accessible, illustrated guidebooks. Their audience
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The Chinese had a word for it—wanbao quanshu. It’s a bibliographic term, which literally means “complete compendia of myriad treasures,” but an alternate translation might be “middlebrow.” These were encyclopedic works that distilled and summarized sophisticated science, history, and politics in cheap, accessible, illustrated guidebooks. Their audience
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Journal of Modern Literature, 2013
Kate Macdonald’s edited collection The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880–1950: What Mr Miniver Read reconsiders the relationships between middlebrow literary cultures and masculinity during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The twelve essays collected here deliberately depart from the recent scholarly practice of viewing middlebrow texts ...
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Kate Macdonald’s edited collection The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880–1950: What Mr Miniver Read reconsiders the relationships between middlebrow literary cultures and masculinity during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The twelve essays collected here deliberately depart from the recent scholarly practice of viewing middlebrow texts ...
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