TY  - GEN
AU  - Holmes,Diana
TI  - Middlebrow Matters : Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque
SN  - j.ctvt1sk8w
PY  - 2018///1031
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Languages
KW  - Literary studies
KW  - fiction
KW  - novelists & prose writers
KW  - France
KW  - English
KW  - French
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Middlebrow 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26001/1/1004081.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26001/1/1004081.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26001/1/1004081.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36434
ER  -