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oapen-20.500.12657-260012021-11-10T08:11:10Z Middlebrow Matters Holmes, Diana Languages Literary studies fiction novelists & prose writers France English French bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 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. 2019-01-22 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-16 03:00:26 2020-04-01T10:56:54Z 2020-04-01T10:56:54Z 2018-10-31 book 1004081 OCN: 1100490961 9781786949523 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26001 eng Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures application/pdf n/a 1004081.pdf Liverpool University Press 10.2307/j.ctvt1sk8w 102590 10.2307/j.ctvt1sk8w 4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781786949523 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Liverpool 102590 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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