The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction: Popular Us Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945-75

by Tom Perrin

During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "middlebrow," leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit. Perrin debunks these unfair assumptions through works by James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113754130X
• ISBN13: 9781137541307
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"