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

ISBN: 0199269335

ISBN13: 9780199269334

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

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"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...

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