Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880 - 1930 [electronic resource] /
Macdonald, K.editor.
Singer, C.editor.
This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Transitions and Cultural Formations; 2 What People Really Read in 1922: If Winter Comes, the Bestseller in the Annus Mirabilis of Modernism; Part I: The Market; 3 Public Gains and Literary Goods: A Coeval Tale of Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, and Francis Marion Crawford; 4 'To-day Has Never Been "Highbrow"': Middlebrow, Modernism and the Many Faces of To-day; 5 Domesticating Modern Art: Charles Marriott (1869-1957) and the Art of Middlebrow Criticism; Part II: Middlebrow Reactions
6 'Sentiment Wasn't Dead': Anti-Modernism in John Galsworthy's The White Monkey7 H G Wells's The Sea Lady and the Siren Call of the Middlebrow; 8 Scottish Modernism, Kailyard Fiction and the Woman at Home; Part III: Cross-Pollinations; 9 'The Most Thrilling and Fascinating Book of the Century': Marketing Gustave Flaubert in Late Nineteenth-Century England; 10 Cross-Channel Mediations: Henry-D Davray and British Popular Fiction in the Mercure de France; 11 Middlebrow Criticism across National Borders: Arnold Bennett and Herman Robbers on Literary Taste in Britain and the Netherlands
12 Who Framed Edgar Wallace? British Popular Fiction and Middlebrow Criticism in the NetherlandsBibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
British literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.