The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction: Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75
Author:   Tom Perrin
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
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9781137541307


Pages:   197
Publication Date:   04 August 2015
Format:   Hardback
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The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction: Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75


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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, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature.

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Author:   Tom Perrin
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.648kg
ISBN:  

9781137541307


ISBN 10:   113754130
Pages:   197
Publication Date:   04 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Remake it New 1. The Old Men and the ' 'Sea of Masscult ' ': T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and the Middlebrow Aesthetic 2. ' 'It Offers No Solutions ' ': Ambivalence and Aesthetics in the Social Problem Novel 3. Rebuilding Bildung: The Novel of Aesthetic Education 4. The Second-Greatest Stories Ever Told: Middlebrow Epics of 1959 and the Aesthetics of Disavowal 5. Book Smarts: Masochism and Popular Postmodernism Conclusion

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The way Perrin locates the middlebrow novel - not as marginal, but firmly within the history and tradition of the American novel - is significant. For him, our literary tradition doesn't go from Sentimentalism to Realism to Modernism to Postmodernism in such neat order. Realism continued. It continues. The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction offers convincing evidence of its aesthetic complexity and artistic significance. - Cecilia Konchar Farr, St. Catherine University, United States, author of Reading Oprah and The Ulysses Delusion


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Tom Perrin is Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Huntingdon College, USA.

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