Aesthetics of middlebrow fiction, the: popular us novels, modernism, and form, 1945–75
Auteur :
Perrin, Tom
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781137541307
Date de publication :
4 août 2015
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.