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Middlebrow Matters : Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Contemporary French and Francophone CulturesPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 20181031Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9781786949523
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Middlebrow matters. Druck-Ausgabe Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2018DDC classification:
  • 843.912099287 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ673
Online resources: Summary: 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 prizesPPN: PPN: 1778543995Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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