Middlebrow matters women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque
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,...
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Liverpool
Liverpool University Press
2018, 2018©2018
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| Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index
- Introduction
- Reclaiming the middlebrow
- The birth of French middlebrow
- Colette : the middlebrow modernist
- Interwar France : the case of the missing middlebrow
- The 'little world' of Françoise Sagan
- Literary prizes, women and the middlebrow
- Realism, romance and self-reflexivity : twenty-first-century middlebrow
- Conclusion : Marie NDiaye's femme puissante : a double reading