Imperial Middlebrow

The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, surveys colonial middlebrow texts concentrating on Britain, India, South Africa, the West Indies, and so on, and uses the concept as a tool to read contemporary writing from Britain and Nigeria.

About the author

Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn (Germany). He has published on Scottish writing, writer's biographies and cultural conceptions of space and mobility from the early modern period to the present.He is co-editor of Middlebrow and Gender: 1890-1945 (Brill, 2016).

Jana Gohrisch is Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). She has published two monographs, one on Black British literature and one on 19th-century British emotion cultures, and co-edited collections, including Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines (Brill, 2013).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2020
• EAN: 9789004426559
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42655-9
• No. of pages: 258
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Literary Modernism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies