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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, ar
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The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction
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Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75
Tom Perrin
10.1057/9781137523952 - The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction, Tom Perrin
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The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction
the aesthetics of middlebrow fiction
Copyright © Tom Perrin, 2015. All rights reserved.
“The Old Men and the ‘Sea of Masscult’: T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and Middlebrow Aesthetics,” American Literature 84.1: 151–74. Copyright 2012, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyright holder, Duke University Press. www.dukeupress.edu “Rebuilding Bildung: The Middlebrow Novel of Aesthetic Education in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States,” NOVEL: A Forum On Fiction 44.3: 382–401. Copyright 2011, Novel, Inc. All rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyright holder, and the present publisher, Duke University Press. www.dukeupress.edu First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–54130–7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perrin, Tom, 1979– The aesthetics of middlebrow fiction : popular US novels, modernism, and form, 1945–75 / Tom Perrin. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–1–137–54130–7 (hardback) 1. American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Popular literature—United States—History and criticism. 3. Literature and society—United States—History—20th century. 4. Social problems in literature. 5. Social values in literature. 6. Aesthetics in literature. I. Title. II. Title: Middlebrow fiction : popular US novels, modernism, and form, 1945–75. PS374.P63P47 2015 813.509—dc23
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