Middlebrow literary cultures
Subtitle: the battle of the brows, 1920-1960
By: edited by Erica Brown and Mary Grover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230298361
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Popular literature; Literature and society; History
Description: 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 essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.