The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism by Nicola Humble

The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism

Nicola Humble

288 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"Middlebrow" has always been a dirty word, used disparagingly since its coinage in the mid-1920s for the sort of literature thought to be too easy, insular and smug. Aiming to rehabilitate the feminine middlebrow, Nicola Humble argues that the nov...

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