Transitions in middlebrow writing, 1880-1930. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kate Macdonald, Christoph Singer.
• Editors: Macdonald, Kate, 1964-; Singer, Christoph
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Transitions and cultural formations; Kate Macdonald, Ghent University, and Christoph Singer 2. What people really read in 1922: If Winter Comes, the bestseller in the annus mirabilis of modernism; Kirsten MacLeod 3. Public gains and literary goods: a coeval tale of Conrad, Kipling and Francis Marion Crawford; Simon Frost 4. 'To-day has never been 'highbrow'': middlebrow, modernism, and the many faces of To-day; Louise Kane 5. Domesticating modern art: Charles Marriott (1869-1957) and the art of middlebrow criticism; Rebecca Sitch 6. 'Sentiment wasn't dead': anti-modernism in John Galsworthy's The White Monkey; Alison Hurlburt 7. HG Wells'The Sea Lady and the siren call of the middlebrow; Emma Miller 8. Scottish modernism, Kailyard, and the woman at home; Samantha Walton 9. 'The most thrilling and fascinating book of the century': marketing Gustave Flaubert in late nineteenth-century Britain; Juliette Atkinson 10. Cross-channel mediations: Henry-D. Davray and British popular fiction in the Mercure de France; Birgit Van Puymbroeck 11. Middlebrow criticism across national borders: Arnold Bennett and Herman Robbers on literary taste in Britain and the Netherlands; Koen Rymenants 12. Who framed Edgar Wallace? British popular fiction and middlebrow criticism in the Netherlands'; Mathijs Sanders and Alex Rutten Bibliography Index.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 820.911209034; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137486776
• Related ISBNs: 9781137486769
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