The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction
Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75| By: | Tom Perrin |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137541307 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137523952 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.