The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism
A Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Books About Books book. An academic review of a certain type of book I confess to liking!
"Middlebrow" has always been a dirty word, used disparagingly since its coinage in the mid-1920s for the sort of literature thought to be too easy, insular and smug. Aiming to rehabilitate the feminine middlebrow, Nicola Humble argues that the novels of writers such as Rosamund Lehmann, Elizabeth Taylor, Stella Gibbons, Nancy Mitford, played a powerful role in establishing and consolidating, but also in resisting, new class and...
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This is a thematic approach to fiction between the wars and up to 1960. The selection of books included is a sample of their authors' works, and the authors chosen are a sample of those who were writing at the time (there are a few obvious names missing or only mentioned in passing). The really interesting parts of this for me were... Several novels from my mothers shelves are discussed in this interesting study. I grew up reading Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, and Dorothy Sayers but avoided Angela Thirkell even though we had four of her titles, and some of the pleasures of that reading are ones Nicola Humble both describes and evokes... An academic review of a certain type of book I confess to liking!
