Middlebrow Literary Cultures

Chapter 1 Introduction: Middlebrow Matters

Chapter 2 Middlebrow Reading and Undergraduate Teaching: The Place of the Middlebrow in the Academy

Chapter 3 Configuring Middleness: Bourdieu, l’Art Moyen and the Broadbrow

Chapter 4 Cultural Hierarchies and the Interwar British Press

Chapter 5 Priestley and the Highbrows

Chapter 6 Aesthetics for Everyman: Arnold Bennett’s Evening Standard Columns

Chapter 7 ‘A Strongly Felt Need’: Wilfred Whitten/John O’London and the Rise of the New Reading Public

Chapter 8 The Excluded Middle: Cultural Polemics and Magazines in America, 1915–1933

Chapter 9 ‘Intellectual in Its Looser Sense’: Reading Mencken’s Smart Set

Chapter 10 Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority and Autonomous Readers in Post-war America: James Gould Cozzens, Dwight Macdonald and By Love Possessed

Chapter 11 The Returning Reader: Canadian Serial Fiction and Mazo de la Roche’s Jalna Novels

Chapter 12 Illustrating Mary Poppins: Visual Culture and the Middlebrow

Chapter 13 Imagism, Realism, Surrealism: Middlebrow Transformations in the Mass-Observation Project

Chapter 14 The Queer Pleasures of Reading: Camp and the Middlebrow