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Middlebrow Literary Cultures

The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960
By:E. Brown
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230298361
eText ISBN:9780230354647
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational.