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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Modernity and the Gendering of Middlebrow Book Culture in Australia
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    y separately published work icon The Masculine Middlebrow 1880-1950 : What Mr. Miniver Read Kate Macdonald (editor), Houndmills New York (City) : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 Z1858947 2011 anthology criticism 'This collection of essays looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s, examining a specifically masculine trend in a largely unexplored stream of literary and publishing culture. It reconsiders what was being reacted against by the feminine writer and the woman reader of middlebrow writing, as well as, in a wider field, the masculine middlebrow response to literary modernism. The essays examine who the masculine reader at this period may have been, and how his reading choices responded to his social and cultural environment. Our attention is drawn to the reader and his needs, rather than to the producers of what he read. Contributors include Nicola Humble, author of The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, and Christopher Hilliard, an authority on the democratization of writing in interwar Britain.' (Publisher's blurb)
    Houndmills New York (City) : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011
    pg. 135-149

Works about this Work

Sex and the City : New Novels by Women and Middlebrow Culture at Mid-Century Susan Sheridan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October-November vol. 27 no. 3/4 2012; (p. 1-12)
'Central to developments in Australian literature during the period from the end of Second World War until the mid-1960s - what might be called the 'long 1950s' - was the emergence of the kind of modernist novel written by Patrick White as the benchmark of modern fiction. This was the outcome of a struggle among opinion-makers in the literary field, which during this period came to be dominated for the first time by academic critics. They, by and large, favoured the new forms of postwar modernism and rejected that literary nationalism which had drawn the loyalty of most influential writers during the 1930s and 940s.' (Author's introduction)
Sex and the City : New Novels by Women and Middlebrow Culture at Mid-Century Susan Sheridan , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October-November vol. 27 no. 3/4 2012; (p. 1-12)
'Central to developments in Australian literature during the period from the end of Second World War until the mid-1960s - what might be called the 'long 1950s' - was the emergence of the kind of modernist novel written by Patrick White as the benchmark of modern fiction. This was the outcome of a struggle among opinion-makers in the literary field, which during this period came to be dominated for the first time by academic critics. They, by and large, favoured the new forms of postwar modernism and rejected that literary nationalism which had drawn the loyalty of most influential writers during the 1930s and 940s.' (Author's introduction)
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