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'One of the few books that doesn't stink' : the Intellectuals, the Masses and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [PDF]
, 2005 Anita Loos's tribute to Aldous Huxley appeared in a memorial volume compiled by Julian Huxley in 1966. Among the contributors were Lord David Cecil, Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Osbert Sitwell, Leonard Woolf and Isaiah Berlin.
Hammill, Faye
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Introduction: Middlebrow London [PDF]
, 2011 This article is available open access through the publisher’s website through the link below.
Hubble, N
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Who Feels Looked Down Upon? Sources of “Symbolic Violence” in the United States
Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 87-108, February 2026.This paper explores the factors increasing the chances of thinking one's cultural tastes and interests would be looked down upon by others, a sentiment put under the label of “symbolic violence” by Pierre Bourdieu. Using data from a survey fielded in the US in 2017–18 (n = 2,514), it examines the role of social position, lifestyle, family status and ...
Will Atkinson
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Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 423-436, August 2025.Abstract The article discusses the complex relationship between publishers and literary prizes in terms of production, marketing, and the value of literary prizes. The main argument is that publishers are instrumental not only in the creation process of literary fiction receiving prizes but also in using the values adhered to awards and nominations for
Ann Steiner
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Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Life Magazine (New York, 1883–1936)
Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2016 This paper explores the relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture within a little-studied American magazine, Life (New York, 1884-1936). It does so by looking at three ways in which Life presented modernism to its readers: by quoting
Marianne Van Remoortel
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, 2017 This chapter outlines the scope of the book, discusses Rose Macaulay's life and writing, and summarises the other chapters in the book, making connections to their coherence as a unified argument that Macaulay was a writer of modernity in British ...
Macdonald, Kate
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The rise and fall of ‘the original Bright Young Thing’: Beverley Nichols, Crazy Pavements (1927) and popular authorship [PDF]
, 2014 This essay re-examines the work and reputation of ‘the original Bright Young Thing’, Beverley Nichols (1898-1983). Nichols was a key cultural figure and best-selling novelist in the 1920s, yet now exists only as an occasional footnote in academic ...
Brown, Erica
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 23-44, May 2024.Abstract Hồ Chí Minh's extended essay Fixing the Way We Work, written in 1947 after he and other high‐ranking members of the recently formed DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), had been forced to retreat from Hanoi to the uplands of Thái Nguyên province, elaborates on organizational and practical problems within the party ...
Jack Sidnell
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Cyrano de Bergerac d’Edmond Rostand, le triomphe du théâtre de genre
Recherches & Travaux, 2023 This paper aims to read the success of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac as the culmination of a literary strategy inscribed in the genesis of the play, the generic choices and the intertextual references with which it is abundantly nourished. Designed
Sarah Mombert
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The emergence of the middlebrow novel in the Netherlands: the ‘New Novels’ Series of World Library
Belphégor, 2017 Presenting the case of the introduction of a series of ‘New Novels’ in 1909, this article analyzes the early beginning of literary midcult in the Netherlands.
Erica van Boven
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