The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction [electronic resource] : Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75 /
Perrin, Tom.author.
During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "middlebrow," leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit. Perrin debunks these unfair assumptions through works by James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "middlebrow," leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit. Perrin debunks these unfair assumptions through works by James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Remake it New -- 1. The Old Men and the 'Sea of Masscult': T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and the Middlebrow Aesthetic -- 2. 'It Offers No Solutions': Ambivalence and Aesthetics in the Social Problem Novel -- 3. Rebuilding Bildung: The Novel of Aesthetic Education -- 4. The Second-Greatest Stories Ever Told: Middlebrow Epics of 1959 and the Aesthetics of Disavowal -- 5. Book Smarts: Masochism and Popular Postmodernism -- Conclusion.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
America—Literatures.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—History and criticism.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literary History.
Fiction.