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“Avarice” and “Evil Doers”: Profiteers, Politicians, and Popular Fiction in the1920s
2011 •
Christine Grandy
Wireless Women: The "Mass" Retreat of Brighton Rock
2007 •
Jeffrey Sconce
All popular fi ction must feature a romantic couple, and so it is in the opening pages of Brighton Rock (1938) that Graham Greene introduces Pinkie and Rose, the teenagers whose abrasive courtship and perverse marriage will both enact and travesty this convention as the novel unfolds. When Pinkie fi rst meets Rose, she is working at Snow’s as a waitress. Entering the establishment, Pinkie encounters a wireless set “droning a programme of weary music broadcast by a cinema organist—a great vox humana trembl[ing] across the crumby stained desert of used cloths: the world’s wet mouth lamenting over life” (24). This reference to the weary lamentations of wireless remains an isolated detail until moments before Pinkie takes his fatal plunge over the cliff in the novel’s closing pages. Having taken Rose up the coast from Brighton with plans to facilitate her suicide, the couple sits for a few awkward moments in an empty hotel lounge. As Rose works on her half of the couple’s double-suicide...
Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945
Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945
2016 •
Cornelia Wächter
Egoism and “ The Eyes of Others ” : Lord Jim , Miss Mole , and the Dialogue of Literary “ Brows ”
2017 •
Stella Deen
This essay participates in recent scholarship destabilizing the binary opposition between high and middlebrow culture through a comparative study of egotism in two British novels. Rather than recovering forgotten classics such as E.H. Young’s Miss Mole within the categories of women’s literature or middlebrow literature, the writer examines the contribution of such novels to cultural discourses that cut across literary brows. Drawing on Wai Chee Dimock’s theory of resonance and Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism, she pairs the canonical Lord Jim and the insufficiently known Miss Mole in order to hear previously inaudible sounds in both texts and to claim their dialogic interaction. This critical approach illuminates the kinship of texts segregated by the commercial, cultural, and ideological projects of assigning brows to texts. The comparison of egotism in the two novels throws into relief both the modern anxiety that the individual might be lost amidst an indifferent and populated world ...
Egoism and “The Eyes of Others”
2017 •
Stella Deen
This essay participates in recent scholarship destabilizing the binary opposition between high and middlebrow culture through a comparative study of egotism in two British novels. Rather than recovering forgotten classics such as E.H. Young’s Miss Mole within the categories of women’s literature or middlebrow literature, the writer examines the contribution of such novels to cultural discourses that cut across literary brows. Drawing on Wai Chee Dimock’s theory of resonance and Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism, she pairs the canonical Lord Jim and the insufficiently known Miss Mole in order to hear previously inaudible sounds in both texts and to claim their dialogic interaction. This critical approach illuminates the kinship of texts segregated by the commercial, cultural, and ideological projects of assigning brows to texts. The comparison of egotism in the two novels throws into relief both the modern anxiety that the individual might be lost amidst an indifferent and populated worl...
Cambridge History of American Modernism
Modernist Presses
2023 •
Lise Jaillant
When we think of US modernist presses, a series of images comes to mind: Horace Liveright, who issued T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land alongside bestselling novels and popular theater plays; Alfred Knopf and his wife Blanche, who promoted the new African American literature and original crime fiction by Dashiell Hammett; B.W. Huebsch, who published Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, but also radical political texts. This chapter focuses on the diversity of American modernist presses – from avant-garde imprints to long-established houses, from limited editions to inexpensive reprints. The period between the wars has been mythologized as a “golden age.” This essay scraps the gold to reveal a more nuanced picture of the publishing landscape. As Bennett Cerf (the owner of the Modern Library) declared, flamboyant but dysfunctional houses had no chance of surviving: publishing was a business, and the fun and excitement of discovering new authors would always compete against the necessity of making a profit.
Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere
2003 •
Melba Cuddy-Keane
Journal of Mennonite Studies
The Story of a Novel: How We Found Ephraim Weber’s ‘Three Mennonite Maids’
2008 •
Hildi Tiessen
Dear Miss Cowie: The Construction of Canadian Authorship 1920s-30s
Victoria Kuttainen
Vancouver school teacher Margaret Cowie was busy at work assembling a library of Canadian Literature well before Canadian Literature courses were taught in universities. Although the library itself has disappeared, the surprising list of titles collected by Miss Cowie, and the lively literary correspondence she left behind in fonds at the University of British Columbia, provides a remarkable snapshot of literary activity in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s.
The middlebrow family resemblance: Features of the historical and contemporary middlebrow
Beth Driscoll
