The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr. Miniver Read

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
1 Introduction: Identifying the Middlebrow, the Masculine and Mr Miniver......Page 12
2 Reading Class, Examining Men: Anthologies, Education and Literary Cultures......Page 35
3 The Evolution of the Masculine Middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett and Priestley......Page 49
4 ‘Watching the Papers Daily in Fear and Trembling’: The Boer War and the Invention of Masculine Middlebrow Literary Culture......Page 67
5 Professionalism and the Cultural Politics of Work in the Sherlock Holmes Stories......Page 84
6 From Holmes to the Drones: Fantasies of Men without Women in the Masculine Middlebrow......Page 101
7 Healing Landscapes and Evolving Nationalism in Interwar Canadian Middlebrow Fiction of the First World War......Page 115
8 ‘Everybody’s Essayist’: On Middles and Middlebrows......Page 130
9 Modernity and the Gendering of Middlebrow Book Culture in Australia......Page 146
10 ‘Mind’s Middle Distances’: Men of Letters in Interwar New Zealand......Page 161
11 The Political Middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell......Page 173
12 The Collaborator, the Tyrant and the Resistance:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Masculine ‘Middlebrow’ England in the Second World War......Page 188
Bibliography......Page 206
Index......Page 226