Chapter 1 Introduction: Identifying the Middlebrow, the Masculine and Mr Miniver

Chapter 2 Reading Class, Examining Men: Anthologies, Education and Literary Cultures

Chapter 3 The Evolution of the Masculine Middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett and Priestley

Chapter 4 ‘Watching the Papers Daily in Fear and Trembling’: The Boer War and the Invention of Masculine Middlebrow Literary Culture

Chapter 5 Professionalism and the Cultural Politics of Work in the Sherlock Holmes Stories

Chapter 6 From Holmes to the Drones: Fantasies of Men without Women in the Masculine Middlebrow

Chapter 7 Healing Landscapes and Evolving Nationalism in Interwar Canadian Middlebrow Fiction of the First World War

Chapter 8 ‘Everybody’s Essayist’: On Middles and Middlebrows

Chapter 9 Modernity and the Gendering of Middlebrow Book Culture in Australia

Chapter 10 ‘Mind’s Middle Distances’: Men of Letters in Interwar New Zealand

Chapter 12 The Collaborator, the Tyrant and the Resistance: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Masculine ‘Middlebrow’ England in the Second World War