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. KATE MACDONALD is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ghent, Belgium, where she teaches British literature and culture. She has published chapters and articles on late Victorian and Edwardian book history and publishing culture, and is the author and editor of books on John Buchan. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Identifying the Middlebrow, the Masculine and Mr Miniver; 'K.Macdonald - 'Reading Class, Examining Men: Anthologies, Education, and Literary Cultures; 'S.McPherson - 'The Evolution of the Masculine Middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett, Priestley; 'C.E.Hill - ''Watching the Papers daily in Fear and Trembling': the Boer War and the Invention of Masculine Middlebrow Literary Culture;' J.Wild - 'Professionalism and the Cultural Politics of Work in the 'Sherlock Holmes' stories; 'C.Clarke - 'From Holmes to the Drones: Fantasies of Men without Women in the Masculine Middlebrow; 'N.Humble - 'Healing Landscapes and evolving Nationalism in interwar Canadian Middlebrow Fiction of the First World War;' A.Tector - ''Everybody's Essayist': on Middles and Middlebrows; 'C.Pollentier - 'Modernity and the Gendering of Middlebrow Book Culture in Australia; 'D.Carter - ''Mind'sMiddle Distances': Men of Letters in interwar New Zealand; 'C.Hilliard' - ThePolitical Middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell; 'A.Vaninskaya - ''The Collaborator, the Tyrant, and the Resistance': 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe' and Masculine Middlebrow England in the Second World War; 'A.Rea - 'Bibliography - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29079-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 22/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés