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245 0 0 _aMiddlebrow Matters
_bWomen's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque /
_cDiana Holmes.
020 _a9781786949523
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100 1 _aHolmes, Diana
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264 1 _bLiverpool University Press,
300 _a1 online resource (257 p.)
506 0 _aAccess copy available to the general public.
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520 _aMiddlebrow 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 Époque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irène Nemirovsky, Françoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes.
588 0 _aDescription based on print version record.
590 _aKU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books
650 7 _aLiterary Criticism / European / French
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650 0 _aLiterature
_xHistory and criticism
655 0 _aElectronic books.
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