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Title:

The masculine middlebrow, 1880-1950 : what Mr. Miniver read / edited by Kate Macdonald.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

x, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
Popular literature--Commonwealth countries--History and criticism.
Men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Men--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Men--History--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Macdonald, Kate, 1964-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Identifying the middlebrow, the masculine and Mr. Miniver / by Kate Macdonald -- Reading class, examining men: anthologies, education, and literary cultures / by Sue McPherson -- The evolution of the masculine middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett, Priestley / by Clive E Hill -- "Watching the papers daily in fear and trembling": the Boer War and the invention of masculine middlebrow literary culture / by Jonathan Wild -- Professionalism and the cultural politics of work in the Sherlock Holmes stories / by Clare Clarke -- From Holmes to the drones: fantasies of men without women in the masculine middlebrow / by Nicola Humble -- Healing landscapes and evolving nationalism in interwar Canadian middlebrow fiction of the First World War / by Amy Tector -- "Everybody's essayist": on middles and middlebrows / by Caroline Pollentier -- Modernity and the gendering of middlebrow book culture in Australia / by David Carter -- "Mind's middle distances" : men of letters in interwar New Zealand / by Christopher Hilliard -- The political middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell / by Anna Vaninskaya -- "The collaborator, the tyrant, and the resistance": The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe and masculine middlebrow England in the Second World War / by Ann Rea.

ISBN:

0230290795 (alk. paper)
9780230290792 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)710816315

LCCN:

2011012065

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)