Middlebrow matters : women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque / Diana Holmes.

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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Main Author: Holmes, Diana, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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