The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945-75

Title:

ISBN:

9781137523952

Personal Author:

Perrin, Tom. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Publication Information New:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Physical Description:

IX, 197 p. online resource.

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

Literature, Modern -- 20th century.

America -- Literatures.

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Literature -- History and criticism.

Fiction.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

North American Literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Literary History.