The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction : Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75
1st ed. 2015
by
Tom Perrin
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
113754130X
ISBN-13
9781137541307
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 4th, 2015
Print length
197 Pages
Weight
380 grams
Dimensions
14.80 x 22.30 x 2.00 cms
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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.
The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction examines the critically acclaimed, popular novels that were labeled "middlebrow" in the US during the Cold War. This period saw a vogue for the term ''middlebrow,'' with articles on the topic in magazines like Harper''s a
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