Middlebrow Matters Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque

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Tác giả: Diana Holmes

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 1786941562

ISBN-10: 1786949520

ISBN-13: 978-1786941565

ISBN-13: 978-1786949523

Ký hiệu phân loại: 843.9120993 French fiction

Thông tin xuất bản: Liverpool : Liverpool Liverpool University Press, 2020

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource 244 pages)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 196592

Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to 'high' culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging experimentalism of the high and the formulaic drive of the popular, it enables a rethinking of the literary canon from the point of view of what most readers actually read, a criterion curiously absent from dominant definitions of literary value. Since women have long formed a majority of the nation's reading public, this perspective immediately feminises what has always been a very male canon. Opening with a theorisation of the concept of middlebrow that mounts a defence of some literary qualities disdained by modernism, the book then focuses on a series of case studies of periods (the Belle Epoque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irene Nemirovsky, Francoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes.
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