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'What we might expect - if the highbrow weeklies advertized like the patent foods': Time and Tide, advertising, and the 'battle of the brows' [PDF]
, 2011 This essay examines both the advertising content and a discourse about commercial culture in the feminist weekly periodical Time and Tide. Taking a cue from Sean Latham and Robert Scholes's emphasis on advertising as 'a vital, even crucial part of the ...
Clay, C
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Belphégor, 2022 L’article prolonge les réflexions sur l’américanisation de la presse magazine au Québec durant l’entre-deux-guerres, en analysant dans les périodiques eux-mêmes les rapports entre la rhétorique antiaméricaine, l’axiome national et la moyennisation des ...
Adrien Rannaud
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IdeAs, 2018 This article focuses on the discussion of expatriation and on the representations of modernism in a middlebrow novel, The French They are a Funny Race, by Lyon Mearson (1931), arguing that those two aspects are linked by a common critical perspective on ...
Céline Mansanti
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Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit*
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 71, Issue 5, Page 830-851, November 2020., 2020 Abstract We use data from a large scale and nationally representative survey to evaluate two narratives about the social bases of Brexit. The first narrative sees Brexit as a revolt of the economically left‐behinds. The second narrative attributes Brexit to the resurgence of an English nationalism.
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"The land of my dreams": the gendered utopian dreams and disenchantment of British literary ex-combatants of the Great War [PDF]
, 2011 The last two decades have seen a slow shift in the academic understanding of the impact of the Great War on concepts of gender in interwar Britain. The work of a small group of cultural historians, following in the footsteps of Rosa Maria Bracco, has ...
Cullen, Stephen Michael
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Stella Gibbons, ex-centricity and the suburb [PDF]
, 2009 In The Intellectuals and the Masses (1992), John Carey writes: 'The rejection by intellectuals of the clerks and the suburbs meant that writers intent on finding an eccentric voice could do so by colonizing this abandoned territory.
Hammill, Faye
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Une littérature illégitime – le « middlebrow »
Belphégor, 2019 L’écart entre la littérature considérée comme « sérieuse », et celle qu’apprécient (selon les palmarès de ventes, les clubs et sites de livres) la majorité des lecteurs « non-professionnels » (Todorov 2007) est considérable, peut-être plus en France qu ...
Diana Holmes
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Par tous les moyens : territoire du milieu et champ de forces
Belphégor, 2017 The paper suggests ways to discuss the so-called middlebrow debates in the context of French literature. It attempts to understand it as a force field.
Paul Bleton
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Noël Coward and the Sitwells: enmity, celebrity, popularity [PDF]
, 2015 In 1923, the year of the first public performance of Edith Sitwell and William Walton's Façade, Noël Coward satirized the Sitwell siblings in his sketch “The Swiss Family Whittlebot.” The result was an enduring feud between Coward and the Sitwells that ...
Hammill, Faye
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Regions, Maps, Readers: Theorizing Middlebrow Geography
Belphégor, 2017 This article argues that endpaper maps in children’s and adult’s fictions, read in terms of the material contexts of the novels they illustrate and their specific historical contexts, point to new ways of conceiving and organizing middlebrow studies in ...
Kristin Bluemel
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