The new literary middlebrow : tastemakers and reading in the twenty-first century /
There is an increasingly dominant force in twenty-first century book culture: the new literary middlebrow. Today's most influential literary tastemakers are descended from the middlebrow institutions of the early twentieth century, operating with new global reach and across the mass media. In t...
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Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014
Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : 2014 New York : 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- Recognizing the literary middlebrow
- Book clubs, women, Oprah and the middlebrow
- Harry Potter and the middlebrow pedagogies of teachers and reviewers
- The Man Booker Prize: money, glory and media spectacle
- The middlebrow pleasures of literary festivals
- Conclusion: The future of reading