Middlebrow Matters: Women's Reading and the Literary Canon in France Since the Belle Époque

by Diana Holmes

This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786941562
• ISBN13: 9781786941565
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"