Middlebrow and gender, 1890-1945 / edited by Christoph Ehland, Cornelia Wächter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ehland, Christoph, editor.

Wächter, Cornelia, editor.

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 62.

DQR studies in literature, 0921-2507 ; volume 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

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

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Women's periodicals, English--History--19th century.

Women's periodicals, English.

Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Popular literature.

History.

Great Britain.

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women heroes in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 273 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2016.

Summary:

Scholars of the middlebrow have demonstrated that the preferences and choices of both women writers and women readers have suffered considerably from the dismissive attitude of earlier critics. George Eliot's famous attack on 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' set the tone for the long tradition of gendered disputes over the literary merit of works of fiction - a controversy which eventually coalesced with a class-based hegemony of taste in the so-called Battle of the Brows. The new research presented in this volume demonstrates that this gendered inflection of the critical debate is not only one-sided but tends to obfuscate the significance the middlebrow literary spectrum had for the wider dissemination of new concepts of gender. By exploring the scope of middlebrow media culture between 1890 and 1945, from household magazines to popular novels, the essays in this volume give evidence of the relative proximity that existed between middlebrow writers and the avant-garde in their concern for gender issues. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: All Granite, Fog and Female Fiction / Christoph Ehland and Cornelia Wachter

Contact Zones. The Short Fiction of New Woman Writers in Avant-Garde, Mainstream, and Popular Periodicals of the Fin de Siecle / Stephanie Eggermont and Elke D'hoker

Modernism and the Middlebrow in British Women's Magazines, 1916-1930 / Alice Wood

Gender, Disability, Wartime: The Woman's Body and the Disabled Ex-Serviceman in the First World War / Kate Macdonald

Complementary Cousins: Constructing the Maternal in the Writing of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield / Isobel Maddison

Heroics of the Everyday. Middlebrow "Everyman" or Modernist Figurehead? Experiencing Modernity through the Eyes of the Humble Clerk / Nicola Bishop

"The Heroine of a Modern Sea Epic": The New Woman Adventuress in Grant Allen's The Type-Writer Girl / Tara MacDonald

Adventures of the Lady Typist: Redefining the Heroic in Early Twentieth-Century Women's Spy Fiction / Emma Grundy Haigh

Gender, Sexuality, and the Management of Anxiety. Clemence Dane's Fantastical Fiction and Feminist Consciousness / Louise McDonald

The Painted Veil: Re-Inventing the Colonial Woman and the Hinterland Narrative / Wendy Gan

Victoria Cross' Six Chapters of a Man's Life: Queering Middlebrow Feminism / Petra Dierkes-Thrun

Middlebrow Negotiations of Lawrentian Sexuality in Una Silberrad's Desire / Cornelia Wachter

"Ordinary" Sexuality, the "Dirty Little Secret" and the Indecent Highbrow Modernist: Sexuality in Married Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover / Ann Rea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Middlebrow and gender, 1890-1945.

ISBN:

9789004313361

9004313362

OCLC:

942601359