The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism

by Humble, Nicola
ISBN: 9780199269334
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Overview

"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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Humble, Nicola
  • ISBN: 9780199269334
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.46 x 0.67
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2004
Language: English