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The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s to 1950s Class Domesticity and Bohemianism
Author: Nicola Humble
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 pow...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199269334
ISBN-10: 0199269335
Publication Date: 3/19/2004
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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