The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include Oprah’s Book Club, the Man Booker Prize and the Harry Potter phenomenon.
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Driscoll, B. (2014). The new literary middlebrow: Tastemakers and reading in the twenty-first century. The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 1–228). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402929
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