The aesthetics of middlebrow fiction : popular US novels, modernism, and form, 1945-75
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The aesthetics of middlebrow fiction : popular US novels, modernism, and form, 1945-75
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-191) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "middlebrow," leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit. Perrin debunks these unfair assumptions through works by James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Remake it New
1. The Old Men and the ' 'Sea of Masscult ' ': T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and the Middlebrow Aesthetic
2. ' 'It Offers No Solutions ' ': Ambivalence and Aesthetics in the Social Problem Novel
3. Rebuilding Bildung: The Novel of Aesthetic Education
4. The Second-Greatest Stories Ever Told: Middlebrow Epics of 1959 and the Aesthetics of Disavowal
5. Book Smarts: Masochism and Popular Postmodernism
Conclusion
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