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ONLINE

1st ed.

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019

1 online resource (256 pages)

ISBN 9781786949523 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781786941565

Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Ser. ; v.57

Print version: Holmes, Diana Middlebrow Matters Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2019 ISBN 9781786941565

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Reclaiming the Middlebrow -- 2. The Birth of French Middlebrow -- 3. Colette: The Middlebrow Modernist -- 4. Interwar France: The Case of the Missing Middlebrow -- 5. The ’little world’ of Francoise Sagan -- 6. Literary Prizes, Women and the Middlebrow -- 7. Realism, Romance and Self-reflexivity: Twenty-first-century Middlebrow -- Conclusion: Marie NDiaye’s femme puissante - a Double Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.

This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the ’poetics’ of the types of novel that have attracted ’ordinary’ fiction readers - in their majority female - since the end of the 19th century..

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(OCoLC)1101224250