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• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 15 September 2014

The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 30 November 2011

The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These

• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
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• Release Date : 06 June 1998

Examines the life and work of this daring nineteenth-century author and women's rights advocate

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 October 2015

In the 1920s and 1930s the Modern Library series began to bring out cheap editions of modernist works. Jaillant provides a thorough analysis of the series’ mix of highbrow and

• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• File Size : 39,7 Mb
• Release Date : 09 November 2000

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
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• Release Date : 06 June 2024

It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture--which is considered derivative of Europe--and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 06 June 2024

Humble presents a study of the novels by and for middle-class women that dominated the publishing market in the first half of the 20th century. She studies the work of

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 06 June 2024

This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the types of

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
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• Release Date : 30 August 2016

Anthony Gottlieb’s landmark The Dream of Reason and its sequel challenge Bertrand Russell’s classic as the definitive history of Western philosophy. Western philosophy is now two and a

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 11 May 2020

The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, surveys colonial middlebrow texts concentrating on Britain, India, South Africa, the West Indies, and so on, and uses the