The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880–1950: What Mr Miniver Read

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Identifying the Middlebrow, the Masculine and Mr Miniver....Pages 1-23
Reading Class, Examining Men: Anthologies, Education and Literary Cultures....Pages 24-37
The Evolution of the Masculine Middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett and Priestley....Pages 38-55
‘Watching the Papers Daily in Fear and Trembling’: The Boer War and the Invention of Masculine Middlebrow Literary Culture....Pages 56-72
Professionalism and the Cultural Politics of Work in the Sherlock Holmes Stories....Pages 73-89
From Holmes to the Drones: Fantasies of Men without Women in the Masculine Middlebrow....Pages 90-103
Healing Landscapes and Evolving Nationalism in Interwar Canadian Middlebrow Fiction of the First World War....Pages 104-118
‘Everybody’s Essayist’: On Middles and Middlebrows....Pages 119-134
Modernity and the Gendering of Middlebrow Book Culture in Australia....Pages 135-149
‘Mind’s Middle Distances’: Men of Letters in Interwar New Zealand....Pages 150-161
The Political Middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell....Pages 162-176
The Collaborator, the Tyrant and the Resistance: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Masculine ‘Middlebrow’ England in the Second World War....Pages 177-194
Back Matter....Pages 195-228