The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism

"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 gender identities in this period of volatile change for both women and the middle classes.


Author: Nicola Humble
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/15/2004
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.50w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780199269334

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