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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"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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Middlebrow Studies and Its Discontents [PDF]
, 2016 A review of Beth Driscoll, The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Harker, Jaime
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'Avarice’ and ‘evil doers’: profiteers, politicians, and popular fiction in the 1920s [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the depiction of the profiteer as villain within popular low and middlebrow British novels from the 1920s. It argues that concerns with profiteering persisted in the landscape of popular fiction well after the end of World War I in ...
Grandy, Christine
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From crisis to comfort : contemporary bestsellers and the French Middlebrow’s narrative of recovery
Belphégor, 2017 The present article proposes an account of the contemporary French Middlebrow through the study of a corpus of bestselling novels. I identify a recurring motif in the bestsellers of the Sarkozy years (2007-2012), a political period marked by debates on ...
Annamma Varghese
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Individual‐Based Simulation of the Clustering Behaviour of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors
Scientific Programming, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 25-43, 2004., 2004 This paper describes ongoing work on a project to simulate the behaviour of epidermal growth factor receptors. These are structures which can be found on the surface of cells in the body, which receive and process chemical signals concerned with cell growth.
Jacki P. Goldman +2 more
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Computing low-degree isogenies in genus 2 with the Dolgachev-Lehavi method [PDF]
, 2012 Let ell be a prime, and H a curve of genus 2 over a field k of characteristic not 2 or ell. If S is a maximal Weil-isotropic subgroup of Jac(H)[ell], then Jac(H)/S is isomorphic to the Jacobian of some (possibly reducible) curve X.
Smith, Benjamin
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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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Page Composing and Lettering Games: Experimentation in Italy in the 1930s
Authorship, 2012 The objective of this article is to analyze how or in what ways the most advanced visual experiments centred on “the book” as an object in the period between 1900 and 1930 in Italy, in particular in relation to the development of middlebrow literature ...
Sarah Bonciarelli
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