The feminine middlebrow novel, 1920s to 1950s : class, domesticity, and bohemianism / Nicola Humble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humble, Nicola.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction--Women authors.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Women.

Social conditions.

History.

Great Britain.

Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--History--20th century.

Feminism in literature.

Social classes in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

"Middlebrow" has always been a dirty word, used disparagingly since its coinage in the mid-1920s for the sort of literature thought to be too easy, insular and smug. Aiming to rehabilitate the feminine middlebrow, Nicola Humble argues that the novels of writers such as Rosamund Lehmann, Elizabeth Taylor, Stella Gibbons, Nancy Mitford, played a powerful role in establishing and consolidating, but also in resisting, new class and gender identities in this period of volatile change for both women and the middle classes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0198186762

OCLC:

59378700