The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950 [electronic resource] : What Mr. Miniver Read /
Macdonald, K.editor.
Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifying the middlebrow, the masculine and Mr. Miniver / by Kate Macdonald -- Reading class, examining men: anthologies, education, and literary cultures / by Sue McPherson -- The evolution of the masculine middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett, Priestley / by Clive E Hill -- "Watching the papers daily in fear and trembling": the Boer War and the invention of masculine middlebrow literary culture / by Jonathan Wild -- Professionalism and the cultural politics of work in the Sherlock Holmes stories / by Clare Clarke -- From Holmes to the drones: fantasies of men without women in the masculine middlebrow / by Nicola Humble -- Healing landscapes and evolving nationalism in interwar Canadian middlebrow fiction of the First World War / by Amy Tector -- "Everybody's essayist": on middles and middlebrows / by Caroline Pollentier -- Modernity and the gendering of middlebrow book culture in Australia / by David Carter -- "Mind's middle distances" : men of letters in interwar New Zealand / by Christopher Hilliard -- The political middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell / by Anna Vaninskaya -- "The collaborator, the tyrant, and the resistance": The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe and masculine middlebrow England in the Second World War / by Ann Rea.
Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.