"It is not true that men don't read novels, but it is true that there are whole branches of fiction that they avoid. Roughly speaking, what one might call the average novel - the ordinary, good-bad, Galsworthy-and-water stuff which is the norm of the English novel - seems to exist only for women."
George Orwell, 'Bookshop Memories' in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, vol 1, An Age Like This, 1920-1940 (London: Secker and Warburg, 1969; article first published 1936) p. 244.
NB Please note that some of the following references have annotations which are accessed by clicking on the linked reference text.
Section I: Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Texts
- Altick, Richard D., The English Common Reader (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1957)
- Benedict, Ruth, Patterns of Culture (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1935)
- Bennett, Arnold, How to Become an Author (London: C. A. Person, 1903)
- Bennett, Arnold, Literary Taste (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909)
- Blackwell, Basil et al., The Book World (London: Thomas Nelson, 1935)
- Brook, Donald, Writers' Gallery, "Biographical Sketches of Britain's Greatest Writers, and their views on Reconstruction." (London: Rockliff Publishing Corporation, 1944)
- Chapman, Guy, Culture and Survival (London: Jonathan Cape, 1940)
- Connolly, Cyril, Enemies of Promise (London: Routledge, 1938)
- Davies, Margaret Llewellyn ed. Life As We Have Known It (London: Hogarth Press, 1931; Virago, 1977) [contains introduction by Virginia Woolf]
- Drew, Elizabeth, The Modern Novel: Some Aspects of Contemporary Fiction (London: Jonathan Cape, 1926)
- Goldring, Douglas, The Nineteen Twenties (London: Nicholson and Watson, 1945)
- Hunt, Cecil, Ink in my Veins (London: Robert Hale, 1948)
- Hutchinson, A. S. M., Bring Back the Days (London: Michael Joseph, 1958)
- Jackson, Holbrook, The Eighteen Nineties (London: Grant Richards, 1913: Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1939)
- Jenkinson, A. J., What do Boys and Girls Read? (London: Methuen, 1940: Second edition with new Appendix, 1946)
- Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon and Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1942)
- Leavis, F. R., Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture (Cambridge: The Minority Press, 1930)
- Leavis, F. R. and Denys Thompson, Culture and Environment. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1933)
- Leavis, Q. D., Fiction and the Reading Public (London: Pimlico, 2000; first pub. 1932)
- Lefebvre, Henri, Critique of Everyday Life 1, trans. John Moore, (London: Verso, 1991. Orig. published as Critique de la vie quotidienne I: Introduction, Paris: Grasset, 1947)
- Lynes, Russell, 'High-Brow, Low-Brow, Middle-Brow', Life, (April 11 1949)
- Lynes, Russell, The Taste-Makers (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954)
- Mackenzie, Compton, Literature in My Time (London: Rich and Cowan, 1933)
- Mannin, Ethel Confessions and Impressions (London: Jarrolds, 1930; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1937)
- Orwell, George, Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, eds. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (London: Secker and Warburg, 1969)
- Priestley, J. B. 'High, Low, Broad.' In Open House: A Book of Essays (London: Heinemann, 1927)
- Swinnerton, Frank, Background with Chorus: A Footnote to Changes in English Literary Fashion Between 1901 and 1917 (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1956)
- Swinnerton, Frank, Figures in the Foreground: Literary Reminiscences 1917-1940 (London: Hutchinson & Co,1937, rev. edn. 1963)
- Swinnerton, Frank, The Georgian Literary Scene 1910-1935 (London: Hutchinson & Co,1935; rev. edn. 1969)
- Ward, A. C., The Nineteen-Twenties: Literature and Ideas in the Post-War Decade (London: Methuen, 1930)
- West, Rebecca, "The Tosh Horse." The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)
- Woolf, Leonard, Hunting the Highbrow (London: Hogarth Press, 1927)
- Woolf, Virginia, The Death of the Moth (London: Hogarth Press, 1942)
- Woolf, Virginia, The Sickle Side of the Moon: The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1932-1935, Vol. 5 of 6. Ed. Nigel Nicolson. (London:The Hogarth Press, 1994)
- Young, G. M., "The New Cortegiano" in Daylight and Champaign (London: Jonathan Cape, 1937) Reprint in Davison, Meyersohn, and Shils, vol.5, 3-21.
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Section II: Modern Critical Discussions
- Alsop, Derek and Chris Walsh, The Practice of Reading: Interpreting the Novel (London: Macmillan, 1998)
- Anderson, Rachel, The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-literature of Love (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974)
- Ardis, Ann, Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922 (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
- Ardis, Ann and Patrick Collier (eds), Transatlantic Print Culture 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
- Ardis, Ann and Leslie W. Lewis (eds). Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
- Ashley, Bob, The Study of Popular Fiction: A Source Book (London: Pinter, 1989)
- Ayers, David. English Literature of the 1920s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999)
- Barber, Karin The Generation of Plays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000)
- Barker, Francis, et al. 1936: The Sociology of Literature (Colchester: The University of Essex, 1979)
- Barker, Clive and Maggie B. Gale (eds). British Theatre Between the Wars, 1918-1939. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
- Baxendale, John, Priestley's England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007)
- Baxendale, J. and C. Pawling, Narrating the Thirties: A Decade in the Making; 1930-Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996)
- Beauman, Nicola, A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 (London: Virago, 1983)
- Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars 1918-1939 (London: Pandora Press, 1989)
- Bell, Michael, F. R. Leavis (London: Routledge, 1988)
- Bingham, Adrian, Gender, Modernity and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain (Oxford: OUP, 2004)
- Blair, Amy L., Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United State (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011)
- Blanch, Sophie and Melissa Sullivan (eds) 'The Middlebrow - Within or Withour Modernism', special issue of Modernist Cultures, vol 6, no 1, May 2011
- Bloom, Clive, (2nd edition) Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2009)
- Bloom, Clive ed. Literature and Culture in Modern Britain, 1900-1929. Vol.1 of 3. (London: Longman, 1993)
- Bloom, Harold (ed.). British Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960: Volume One (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997)
- Bluemel, Kristin, George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
- Bluemel, Kristin, Intermodernism: Writing and Culture in Interwar and Wartime Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
- Bonham-Carter, Victor. Authors by Profession (London: The Society of Authors, 1978)
- Botshon, Lisa and Meredith Goldsmith (eds) Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s (Northeastern University Press, 2003)
- Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. Richard Nice (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986). Orig. published as La Distinction, Critique sociale du judgement (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1979)
- Bourdieu, Pierre, The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature, ed. Randal Johnson. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993)
- Bracco, Rosa Maria, Betwixt and Between: Middlebrow Fiction and English Society in the 20s and 30s (Victoria: The University of Melbourne, 1990)
- Bracco, Rosa Maria. Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War, 1919-1939 (Oxford: Berg, 1993)
- Briganti, Chiara and Kathy Mezei, Domestic Modernism, The Interwar Novel and EH Young (Ashgate, 2006)
- Bromley, Roger, Lost Narratives (London: Routledge, 1988)
- Brown, Erica and Mary Grover (eds) Middlebrow Literary Cultures: the Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960 (Palgrave, 2012)
- Cannadine, David, Class in Britain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)
- Cadogan, Mary, and Patricia Craig. Women and Children First: The Fiction of Two World Wars (London: Victor Gollancz, 1978)
- Carey, John, The Intellectuals and the Masses (London: Faber and Faber, 1992)
- Casey, Janet, A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Cavaliero, Glen, The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900-1939 (London: Macmillan, 1977)
- Cockburn, Claud, Bestseller: the books that everyone read, 1900-1939 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975)
- Collini, Stefan, Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850-1930 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
- Cohen, Debra Rae. Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women's Great War Fiction (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2002)
- Croft, Andy. Red Letter Days: British Fiction in the 1930s (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990)
- Crosland, Margaret, Beyond the Lighthouse: English Women Novelists in the Twentieth Century (London: Constable, 1981)
- Crossick, Geoffrey, ed., The Lower Middle Class in Britain: 1870-1914 (London: Croom Helm, 1977)
- Crossick, Geoffrey and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914 (London: Routledge, 1995)
- Cunningham, Valentine. British Writers of the Thirties (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)
- Davis, Lennard J., Resisting Novels: Ideology and Fiction (London: Methuen, 1987)
- Davison, Peter, Rolf Meyersohn, and Edward Shils, eds., Literary Taste, Culture and Mass Communication. 14 vols. (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey; Teaneck, New Jersey: Somerset House, 1978)
- Dawson, Graham, Imagining Masculinities (London: Routledge, 1994)
- Deen, Stella (ed.). Challenging Modernism: New Readings in Literature and Culture, 1914-45 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002)
- Dowson, Jane. Women, Modernism and British Poetry 1910-1939 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002)
- DiBattista, Maria and McDiarmid, Lucy, eds., High and low moderns : literature and culture, 1889-1939 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
- Eagleton, Terry, Against the Grain: Essays 1975-1985 (London: Verso, 1986)
- Eagleton, Terry, Marxism and Literary Criticism (London: Routledge, 1976)
- Earle, David M., Re-Covering Modernism: Pulps, Paperbacks and the Prejudice of Form (Ashgate, 2009)
- Eco, Umberto, The Role of the Reader (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979)
- Edmondson, Belinda, Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2009)
- Eldridge Miller, Jane, Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Edwardian Novel (London: Virago, 1994)
- Felski, Rita, Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2000)
- Felski, Rita, The Gender of Modernity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995)
- Felski, Rita, "Imagined Pleasures: The Erotics and Aesthetics of Consumption." In The Gender of Modernity 61-89. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard Press, 1995)
- Fish, Stanley. Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980)
- Fleishman, Avrom, The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971)
- Flint, Kate, The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
- Fraser, Robert and Mary Hammond (eds) Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture; Volume 2: Perspectives from South Asia (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2008)
- Freund, Elizabeth, The Return of the Reader: Reader-Response Criticism (London: Methuen, 1987)
- Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975)
- Furbank, P. N., Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985)
- Furbank, P. N. "The Twentieth-Century Best-Seller." In The Pelican Guide to English Literature: The Modern Age. Ed. Boris Ford. 429-441. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961)
- Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918-1962 (London: Routledge, 1996)
- Gan, Wendy, Women, Privacy and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century British Writing (Palgrave, 2009)
- Gans, Herbert J., Popular Culture and High Culture (New York: Basic Books, 1974)
- Gindin, James, British Fiction in the 1930s: The Dispiriting Decade (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992)
- Garrity, Jane. Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003)
- Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. 3 vols. Volume I: The War of the Words, Volume II: Sexchanges, Volume III: Letters from the Front (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988, 1989, 1994)
- Giles, Judy. The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity (Oxford: Berg, 2004)
- Giles, Judy and Tim Middleton (eds). Writing Englishness 1900-1950: An Introductory Sourcebook on National Identity (London: Routledge, 1995)
- Goldman, Dorothy with Jane Gledhill and Judith Hattaway. Women Writers and the Great War (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995)
- Greenslade, William. Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880-1940.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Grieve, Victoria, The Federal Art Project and Creation of Middlebrow Culture (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009)
- Griffin, Gabriele (ed.). Difference in View: Women and Modernism (London: Taylor and Francis, 1994)
- Gronow, Jukka, The Sociology of Taste (London: Routledge, 1997)
- Grover, Mary, The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping: Middlebrow Authorship and Cultural Embarrassment (Associated University Presses, 2009)
- Guillory, John, Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993)
- Habermann, Ina, Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010)
- Hall, John, The Sociology of Literature (London: Longman, 1979)
- Hammill, Faye, Women, Celebrity and Literary Culture Between the Wars (University of Texas Press, 2007)
- Hammond, Mary, Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)
- Hanscombe, Gillian and Virginia Smyers. Writing for their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940 (London: The Women's Press, 1987)
- Hapgood, L. and N. Paxton, eds., Outside Modernism (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
- Harker, Jaime, America the Middlebrow: Women's Novel, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars (Amherst: University of Massachussetts Press, 2007)
- Hartley, Jenny. Hearts Undefeated: Women's Writing of the Second World War (London: Virago, 1994)
- Hartley, Jenny, Millions Like Us: British Women's Fiction of the Second World War (London: Virago, 1997)
- Hewitt, Douglas, English Fiction of the Early Modern Period 1890-1940 (Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1988)
- Hilliard, Christopher, To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006)
- Hinds, Hilary, 'Ordinary Disappointments: Femininity, Domesticity, and Nation in British Middlebrow Fiction, 1920-1944' in Modern Fiction Studies, vol 55, no 2 Summer 2009
- Hopkins, Chris, Neglected Texts, Forgotten Contexts (Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University, 1994)
- Horwood, Catherine, Keeping Up Appearances: Fashion and Class Between the Wars (The History Press: 2005)
- Howland, John, Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz (University of Michigan Press, 2009)
- Hubble, Nick, Mass-Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
- Hubble, Nick (ed), 'Middlebrow London' special issue of Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, vol 9, no 1, March 2011
- Humble, Nicola, The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Humm, Peter, Paul Stignant and Peter Widdowson, eds. Popular Fictions: Essays in Literature and History (London: Methuen, 1986)
- Hutner, Gordon, What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
- Hynes, Samuel, A War Imagined: the First World War and English Culture (London: Bodley Head 1990; Pimlico edition, 1992)
- Iser, Wolfgang, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response (London: Routledge Kegan and Paul, 1978; Orig. Der Akt des lesens: theorie Ästhetishcher Wirkung Munich: Fink, 1976)
- Ingram, Angela and Daphne Patai(eds). Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993)
- Joannou, Maralou, Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows: Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-1939 (Oxford: Berg, 1995)
- Joannou, Maroula, ed., Women Writers of the 1930s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Unversity Press, 1999)
- Johnson G. M. ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists Between the Wars (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998)
- Kammen, Michael, American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the Twentieth Century (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)
- Kaplan, Carola M. and Anne B. Simpson, eds., Seeing Double: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature (New York: St Martin's Press, 1996)
- Kermode, Frank, Essays on Fiction 1971-82 (London: Routledge, Kegan and Paul, 1983)
- Klein, Christina, Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 (University of California Press, 2003)
- Langbauer, Laurie, Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction, 1850-1930 (London: Cornell University Press, 1999)
- Lassner, Phyllis, British Women Writers of World War II: Battlegrounds of their Own (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997)
- Lassner, Phyllis, Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire (Rutgers University Press, 2004)
- Latham, Sean, Am I A Snob? Modernism and the Novel (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2003)
- Laurenson, Diana T. and Alan Swingewood, The Sociology of Literature (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1972)
- Laurie, Kedrun, "Who read Richard Jefferies? The evidence of the North fund subscription list.", Richard Jefferies Society Journal, 18 (2009) pp 6-30
- LeMahieu, D. L., A Culture For Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain Between the Wars (Clarendon Press, 1988)
- Levine, Lawrence, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988)
- Lewis, John, The Left Book Club: An Historical Record. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1970)
- Light, Alison, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars (London: Routledge, 1991)
- Low, Rachel, Film Making in 1930s Britain (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1985)
- Lucas, John, The Radical Twenties: Aspects of Writing, Politics and Culture (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2000)
- Maslen, Elizabeth. Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
- McAleer, Joseph, Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)
- McDonald, Peter D., British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice 1880-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
- Macdonald, Kate (ed) The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950: What Mr Miniver Read (Palgrave 2011)
- Macherey, Pierre, A Theory of Literary Production, trans. Geoffrey Wall (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. Orig. published as Pour une theorie de la production litteraire. Paris: Librairie Francois Maspero, 1966)
- MacKay, Marina and Lyndsey Stonebridge (eds) British Fiction After Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
- MacKenzie, John M. ed., Imperialism and Popular Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986)
- McKibbin, Ross, Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- MacKillop, Ian, F. R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism (London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1995)
- Mangan, J. A. and James Walvin. Manliness and Morality: Middle-Class Masculinity in Britain and America, 1800-1940 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987)
- Melman, Billie, Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties (New York: St Martin's Press, 1988)
- Mencher, M. B., Leavis, Dr MacKillop and The Cambridge Quarterly: A Brynmill Special Issue (Denton: Brynmill, 1998)
- Miles, Peter and Malcolm Smith. Cinema, Literature and Society: Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain (London: Croom Helm, 1987)
- Miller, June Eldridge. Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Edwardian Novel (London: Virago, 1994)
- Mills, Sara ed., Gendering the Reader (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994)
- Moran, Joe, Reading the Everyday (London & New York: Routledge, 2005)
- Morgan, Fidelis (ed.). The Years Between: Plays by Women on the London Stage 1900-1950. Preface by Susannah York (London: Virago, 1995)
- Napper, Lawrence, British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years (University of Exexter Press, 2009)
- Nicholas, Sian, The Echo of War: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006)
- Norrie, Ian, Mumby's Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century (London: Bell and Hyman, 1982)
- Parker, John, 'The Age of Mass Intelligence', Intelligent Life, Winter 2008
- Pawling, Christopher ed., Popular Fiction and Social Change (London: Macmillan, 1984)
- Pollard, Wendy, Rosamond Lehmann and Her Critics: The Vagaries of Literary Reception (Ashgate, 2004)
- Philips, Deborah, Women's Fiction 1945-2005: Writing Romance (London: Continuum, 2006)
- Plain, Gill. Women's Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power and Resistance (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996)
- Provenzano, François & Sarah Sindaco (dir.), La Fabrique du Français moyen. Productions culturelles et imaginaire social dans la France gaullienne (1958-1981) (Bruxelles : Le Cri / CIEL-ULB-ULg, 2009)
- Pykett, Lyn' Engendering Fictions; The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century (London: Edward Arnold, 1995)
- Radway, Janice, A Feeling for Books: Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle-Class Desire (Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press, 1997)
- Radway, Janice, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press 1991)
- Ramone, Jenni and Helen Cousins (eds) The Richard and Judy Book Club: Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading (London: Ashgate, 2011)
- Rigby, Brian, Popular Culture in Modern France: A Study of Cultural Discourse (London: Routledge, 1991)
- Robbins, Derek, Bourdieu and Culture (London: SAGE, 2000)
- Rose, Jonathan, The Intellectual Life of the Working Classes (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001)
- Ross, Andrew, No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (London: Routledge, 1989)
- Rowland, Susan. From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
- Rubin, Joan Shelley, The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992)
- Saler, Michael T. The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Sceats, Sarah, and Gail Cunningham (eds). Image and Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century (London: Longmans, 1996)
- Scholes, Robert, Paradoxy of Modernism (Yale University Press, 2005)
- Seabrook, John, Nobrow (NY: Knopf, 2000)
- Stacey, Jackie, Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (London: Routledge, 1994)
- Shepherd, Jennifer, 'Marketing Middlebrow Feminism: Elizabeth von Arnim, the New Woman and the Fin-de-Siecle Book Market.' Philological Quarterly 84: 1 (2005), 105-131
- Smith, Zadie, 'E. M. Forster, Middle Manager', New York Review of Books, 14 August 2008, pp. 8-12.
- Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man (London: Pandora, 1984)
- Stewart, Victoria, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s (Palgrave, 2006)
- Sturm, Terry, "Popular fiction." In The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English, ed. Terry Sturm, 493-544, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991)
- Suleiman, Susan, and Inge Crosman, eds., The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1980)
- Sutherland, J. A., Fiction and the Fiction Industry (London: University of London, Athlone Press, 1978)
- Swingewood, Alan. The Myth of Mass Culture. London: Macmillan, 1977.
- Swirski, Peter, From Lowbrow to Nobrow (McGill-Queens UP, 2005)
- Tawa, Nicholas, E. High-Minded and Low-Down: Music in the Lives of Americans, 1800-1861 (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000)
- Thompson, John B., Ideology and Modern Culture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990)
- Thompson, Paul, The Edwardians: The Remaking of British Society (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975)
- Tompkins, Jane P. ed., Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism (London and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1980)
- Treglown, Jeremy and Bridget Bennett, eds., Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998)
- Trodd, Anthea, Women's Writing in English: Britain 1900-1945 (Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998)
- Tylee, Claire M. The Great War and Women's Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women's Writings, 1914-1964 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990)
- Wall, Geoffrey and Ward, Geoff (eds) 'After Modernism?' Cambridge Quarterly, 38 (2009)
- Wiener, Martin J., English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit 1850-1980 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981)
- Wild, Jonathan, The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture, 1880-1939 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
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Section III: Manuscript Collections
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, The University of Texas at Austin:
- The Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Archive
- The Grant Richards Collection
- The PEN Collection
- The Theatre Arts mss Collection
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Section IV: Periodicals
- The Bookman. London. 1891 - 1934.
- The Bookseller. London. 1933 - present.
- The Calendar of Modern Letters. London. March 1925 - July 1927.
- The Evening Standard. London. 1827 - present. Arnold Bennett wrote weekly reviews of contemporary fiction for the paper from 1926 - 1931.
- The Lady. London. 1885 - present
- The London Mercury. London. 1919 - 1939. Incorporating The Bookman 1935 - 1936.
- The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. London. 1855 - 1938.
- The Sunday Dispatch. 1928 - 1961. Published as The Weekly Dispatch 1801 - 1927.
- The Tatler
- Time and Tide. 1920 - 1979.
- Titbits. London. 1881 - 1970.
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Section V: Other Selections
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