Middlebrow Matters - Women s Reading Literary Canon in France Since Belle Epoque

This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the types of novel that have attracted 'ordinary' fiction readers - in their majority female - since the end of the 19th century.

About the author

Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds.

Summary

This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the types of novel that have attracted 'ordinary' fiction readers - in their majority female - since the end of the 19th century.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Holmes, Diana (School of Languages Holmes
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781786941565
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-156-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies