The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction : Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945-75
ISBN: 9781137523952
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Literature;

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.

Tom Perrin is Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Huntingdon College, USA.

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