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The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr. Miniver Read
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Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230290792
SKU
V9780230290792
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Ref
99-15
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DAVID CARTER Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia CLARE CLARKE Doctoral Researcher, School of English, Queen's University Belfast, UK CLIVE E HILL University of London International Programme, UK CHRISTOPHER HILLIARD Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia NICOLA HUMBLE Professor of English Literature, Roehampton University, UK SUE ... Read more
Reviews for The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr. Miniver Read
"Both forceful and elegant, the essays in this collection evince the myriad ways in which middlebrow readers found radical, challenging ideas at every turn. And, perhaps more importantly, they sketch out how popular reading tastes played a central role in establishing new male identities for an expanding middle class in a world reshaped by industrialization, world wars, universal education and ... Read more