Middlebrow Matters : Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque / Diana Holmes.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 57 | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2018Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource 244 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781786941565
- 9781786949523
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women and literature
- Social classes in literature
- Literature
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
- French fiction
- French fiction -- Women authors
- Feminism in literature
- Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Women and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Social classes in literature
- French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Feminism in literature
- France
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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, it enables a rethinking of the literary canon from the point of view of what most readers actually read, a criterion curiously absent from dominant definitions of literary value. Since women have long formed a majority of the nation's reading public, this perspective immediately feminises what has always been a very male canon. Opening with a theorisation of the concept of middlebrow that mounts a defence of some literary qualities disdained by modernism, the book then focuses on a series of case studies of periods (the Belle Epoque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irene Nemirovsky, Francoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes.
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