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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 382–401.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Tom Perrin This article contributes to the formulation of an aesthetics of the so-called middlebrow novel during the early Cold War years, when the term middlebrow was in its widest circulation. It argues that in their work middlebrow authors frequently attempt to adapt the Enlightenment paradigm...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 499–502.
Published: 01 November 2021
... serious literary writing, especially in the eyes of middlebrow readers. By way of example, Blum mentions Cheryl Strayed, who, in addition to being seen as a serious literary figure and author of a best-selling memoir, has also enjoyed a career as an advice columnist. For years Strayed anonymously...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 112–122.
Published: 01 May 2017
... as a middlebrow text, not for its occulting of “machine-tooled uniformity behind the self-consciously worked mask of culture,” in Radway's words, but for the reverse: for its occulting of self-conscious imitation of culture work beneath the “machine-tooled uniformity” of the women's film. Works Cited...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 466–469.
Published: 01 November 2012
... develop-
ment in and of itself,” Collins concedes early on, but then argues that to mistake the institu-
tions and practices of the last decades as “merely further expansions of middlebrow culture
is to fail to recognize how fundamentally cultural life in the United States has changed”
(18–19...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): v–vi.
Published: 01 November 2011
... and literature at Huntingdon College. He recently
completed a dissertation titled “Across the Great Divide: Modernism and the Middlebrow: 1945–60.”
tyson stolte is assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University and is currently com-
pleting a book on Dickens, Victorian psychology...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 May 2004
... Contexts" is
the opportunity to re-discover the familiar in a new historical light. By offering a
genealogy of cultural key words in the 1920s and 1930s-"hghbrow," "low brow," and
"democratic"-Cuddy-Keane allows us to experience Woolf s posthumously published
essay "Middlebrow" (1932...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 123–125.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of Buell as a critic is that he has a taste for everything. Classic or contemporary, highbrow or middlebrow, formally experimental or straightforwardly realist, mainstream or marginal, Buell (in the spirit of Whitman) gives equal welcome to all, noting differences of category or provenance without...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 310–312.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of the lowbrow or to the pecuniary
profits that might flow from such taste, Davis has been chastised precisely for choosing
financial success and publication in middlebrow magazines. Dowling firmly challenges
this assessment of Davis’s career in several ways. He insists the decision to publish...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2015
... colonial, national, and aesthetic self-determination. An initial chapter, for instance, deals with Nancy Cunard's Negro and anthologies, both of white and of black writers, as sites of collaboration, where both sets of writers are joined by their railing against “middlebrow stupidity” (52) and where...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 176–187.
Published: 01 August 2018
... space in the sense that it's not actually a space in which literary history is resonating. It's become much more of a middlebrow, commercial market—the print wing of the entertainment industry. This was definitely the case in the UK in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and I think it still is, in the UK...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 133–137.
Published: 01 May 2002
..." in a world of men of letters, then, was certainly
also to address and win over the literate middlebrow consumer of books. As Francesca
Sawaya argues in her essay on the progressive social reformer Jane Addams, the
"foundational concept of experience [. is the result of political and ideological...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 421–424.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of Victorian manufacturing, see Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britain,
cd. Freedgood, Oxford UP, 2003).
Why is it that when we read Victorian realist novels we pradce a kind of middlebrow
reading, focused on metaphors that resolve into patterns that, in time become themes? Why...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 492–495.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to the sales of highbrow as well as
“middlebrow” novels. Brier might have noted that this hegemonic promotion of novels
was conjoined with the founding of American studies programs in the United States and
abroad. American literature and American studies buttressed the claim that U.S. capital-
ism’s...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2019
... – 56 . Kim Jodi . Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2010 . Klein Christina . Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961 . Berkeley : U of California P , 2003 . Lee Christopher...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 388–396.
Published: 01 November 2017
... redistribution by the forces of neoliberalism). Jameson invokes science fiction, the genre that has assigned itself the task of writing future history and the topic of his earlier Archaeologies of the Future —only to settle for David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas , a sort of middlebrow parasite of science fiction...
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Novel (2005) 39 (1): 5–24.
Published: 01 May 2005
... ground with successive middlebrow allusions
to R. L. Stevenson's Prince Otto and E. V.Lucas's Open Road-at the mention of
which, according to Forster's narrator, "culture closed in again" (123). Thus on
those occasions when, without any reliable investment advice, Bast has neverthe-
less...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
... in the literary middlebrow. Yet these conventions themselves point up many of the same cognitive and political tangles that artworks like Paglen's address in the key of enlightened critique. The cover of Dan Fesperman's Unmanned ( 2014 ) announces the book as “part mystery and part thriller,” while Sting...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 321–334.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., Bronstein allows, that it is easier to read the novel as an allegory of an account of the Revolution in which the heroine of immense wealth is dragged kicking and screaming to the guillotine. In playing the terrorist who artfully dismantles the marriage plot, Kate dismantles the problem that middlebrow...
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Realism and Dialectic: The Speculative Turn and the History of the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
Novel (2020) 53 (2): 143–164.
Published: 01 August 2020
... formations, realism sloughed so much that it gradually weakened, losing touch with social totality, to the point of becoming a tame or inert part of the literary repertoire—in the case of European and American “highbrow” modernist and postmodernist literature—or an inertially recurring feature of “middlebrow...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 64–83.
Published: 01 May 2019
... disavowal of the middlebrow (which may have embarrassed him more than the club's members) seemed fully part of mainstream literary culture, and Franzen continues to sell well and ruffle many. Curiously, writing for the New York Times Book Review , Colm Tóibín somewhat lamentingly observes that Franzen's...
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