Middlebrow Matters: Women's Reading and the Literary Canon in France Since the Belle Époque by Diana Holmes

Middlebrow Matters: Women's Reading and the Literary Canon in France Since the Belle Époque

Diana Holmes

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This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. 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...

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