Middlebrow Literary Cultures: The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Middlebrow Matters; E.Brown & M.Grover PART I: CULTURAL CONTEXTS Middlebrow Reading and Undergraduate Teaching: The Place of the Middlebrow in the Academy; J.G.Casey Configuring Middleness: Bourdieu, le Art Moyen, and the Broad-Brow; C.Pollentier PART II: TASTE-MAKERS AND PRINT CULTURES I: UK Cultural Hierarchies and the Inter-War British Press; A.Bingham Priestley and the Highbrows; J.Baxendale Aesthetics for Everyman: Arnold Bennett's Evening Standard Columns; J.Shapcott 'A Strongly Felt Need': Wilfred Whitten/John O'London and the Rise of the New Reading Public; J.Wild II: US The Excluded Middle: Cultural Polemics and Magazines in America, 1915-1933; V.Kingham 'Intellectual in its looser sense': Reading Mencken's Smart Set; S.Hamilton Middlebrow Authorship, Critical Authority, and Autonomous Readers in Postwar America: James Gould Cozzens, Dwight Macdonald, and By Love Possessed; J.S.Rubin PART III: CATEGORISATION AND VALUATION The Returning Reader: Serial Middlebrow and Mazo de la Roche's Jalna Novels; C.Rifkind Illustrating Mary Poppins: Visual Culture and the Middlebrow; K.Bluemel Imagism, Realism, Surrealism: Middlebrow Transformations in the Mass-Observation Project; N.Hubble The Queer Pleasures of Reading: Camp and the Middlebrow; N.Humble Afterword; F.Hammill Index