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Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880 - 1930

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Kate Macdonald

    1. Ghent University, Belgium

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  2. Christoph Singer

    1. University of Paderborn, Germany

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Transitions and Cultural Formations

    1. Introduction

      • Kate Macdonald, Christoph Singer
      Pages 1-13

  3. What People Really Read in 1922: <i>If Winter Comes</i>, the Bestseller in the <i>Annus Mirabilis</i> of Modernism

    1. What People Really Read in 1922

      • Kirsten MacLeod
      Pages 14-34

  4. The Market

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Public Gains and Literary Goods

      • Simon Frost
      Pages 37-56

    3. ‘To-day Has Never Been “Highbrow”’

      • Louise Kane
      Pages 57-76

    4. Domesticating Modern Art

      • Rebecca Sitch
      Pages 77-100

  5. Middlebrow Reactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. ‘Sentiment Wasn’t Dead’

      • Alison Hurlburt
      Pages 103-120

    3. H G Wells’s The Sea Lady and the Siren Call of the Middlebrow

      • Emma Miller
      Pages 121-140

    4. Scottish Modernism, Kailyard Fiction and the Woman at Home

      • Samantha Walton
      Pages 141-160

  6. Cross-Pollinations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. ‘The Most Thrilling and Fascinating Book of the Century’

      • Juliette Atkinson
      Pages 163-182

    3. Cross-Channel Mediations

      • Birgit Van Puymbroeck
      Pages 183-202

    4. Middlebrow Criticism across National Borders

      • Koen Rymenants
      Pages 203-222

    5. Who Framed Edgar Wallace?

      • Mathijs Sanders, Alex Rutten
      Pages 223-241

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 242-272
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About this book

This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines.

Reviews

“Transitions in Middlebrow Writing succeeds in opening up new frameworks. … its greatest strength is the way in which the collection attempts to open up dialogue between modernist scholars and middlebrow studies; in addition, the edited collection offers fresh insights to historians of reading, reception, and publishing, and to periodical scholars alike.” (Victoria Kuttainen, SHARP News, sharpweb.org, July, 2016)

“Including chapter notes and an extensive bibliography, this deftly edited collection is a fine piece of scholarship. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (C. McCutcheon, Choice, Vol. 53 (8), April, 2016)

“The collection manages admirably to readjust our conceptions of ‘literary history.’ ... this eminently useful and enjoyable collection points the way towards further explorations of shifting and transitional cultural formations.” (Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Anglistik, Vol. 27 (1), March, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ghent University, Belgium

    Kate Macdonald

  • University of Paderborn, Germany

    Christoph Singer

About the editors

Juliette Atkinson, University College London, UK Simon Frost, Bournemouth University, UK Alison Hurlburt, University of Alberta, Canada Louise Kane, De Montfort University, UK Kirsten MacLeod, Newcastle University, UK Emma Miller, Durham University, UK Koen Rymenants, Independent Scholar, Belgium Alex Rutten, Open University, the Netherlands Mathijs Sanders, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Rebecca Sitch, University of Warwick, UK Birgit Van Puymbroeck, Ghent University, Belgium Samantha Walton, Bath Spa University, UK

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