The masculine middlebrow, 1880-1950
Subtitle: what Mr. Miniver read
By: edited by Kate Macdonald
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780230290792
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; History and criticism; Literature and society; Popular literature; English literature; Men; Men in literature; Books and reading; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identifying the middlebrow, the masculine and Mr. Miniver / by Kate Macdonald; title: Reading class, examining men: anthologies, education, and literary cultures / by Sue McPherson; title: The evolution of the masculine middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett, Priestley / by Clive E Hill; title: "Watching the papers daily in fear and trembling": the Boer War and the invention of masculine middlebrow literary culture / by Jonathan Wild; title: Professionalism and the cultural politics of work in the Sherlock Holmes stories / by Clare Clarke; title: From Holmes to the drones: fantasies of men without women in the masculine middlebrow / by Nicola Humble; title: Healing landscapes and evolving nationalism in interwar Canadian middlebrow fiction of the First World War / by Amy Tector; title: "Everybody's essayist": on middles and middlebrows / by Caroline Pollentier; title: Modernity and the gendering of middlebrow book culture in Australia / by David Carter; title: "Mind's middle distances" : men of letters in interwar New Zealand / by Christopher Hilliard; title: The political middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell / by Anna Vaninskaya; title: "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.