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The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction : Popular Us Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945-75
by Tom Perrin
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781137541307
- ISBN-10: 113754130X
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: August 2015
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.86 pounds
- Page Count: 197
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