The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping: Middlebrow Authorship and Cultural Embarrassment
Mary Grover
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hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 467.
This book examines how the hierarchical structures of taste implied by the term middlebrow were negotiated by the best-selling novelist, Warwick Deeping (1877 - 1950). Deeping is the focus for three reasons: he was immensely popular, prolific, and his popularity was perceived by such critics as Q. D. Leavis as a threat to the "sensitive minority". His sixty-eight novels from 1903 to 1950 give the cultural historian the unusual opportunity of tracing the develpment of an author's attempts to protect both himself and his readers from a process of cultural devaluation. After 1925, the best-selling Sorrell and Son and its ... Read more
This book examines how the hierarchical structures of taste implied by the term middlebrow were negotiated by the best-selling novelist, Warwick Deeping (1877 - 1950). Deeping is the focus for three reasons: he was immensely popular, prolific, and his popularity was perceived by such critics as Q. D. Leavis as a threat to the "sensitive minority". His sixty-eight novels from 1903 to 1950 give the cultural historian the unusual opportunity of tracing the develpment of an author's attempts to protect both himself and his readers from a process of cultural devaluation. After 1925, the best-selling Sorrell and Son and its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473971
SKU
V9781611473971
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About Mary Grover
Mary Grover is associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
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