The Middlebrow in the Media

Articles

Theorizing the Middlebrow

An interview with Nicola Humble, by Elke D'hoker. Interferences litteraires, November 2011.

The Case for Middlebrow

Tad Friend, The New Republic, March 1992, republished on the byliner.com site

Middlebrow and proud

Article subtitled: 'Experts say it's time to embrace middle-of-the-road tastes (so you can stop pretending to love opera!)'. Claire Coleman, Daily Mail, 1 August 2011.

Middlebrow: The taste that dare not speak its name

Devin Friedman, G.Q., June 2011.

Rattling good reads

An article on the Readerships and Literary Cultures Special Collection 1900-1950, held at Sheffield Hallam University. Stephen McClarence, Yorkshire Post, 3 December 2010.

Middlebrow Magazine

This online magazine launched in November 2010, aiming to become 'a compendium of middlebrow recommendations for everyone who is remotely interested in the area: books, films, and music new and old that our low/high brow society has allowed you to overlook'.

'Confessions of a Middlebrow Professor'

W. A. Pannapacker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 October 2009

'The Henry Ford of Literature'

Rolf Potts, The Believer, Sept 2008

'Middlebrow, more than middling interest'

The Times covers the 'Investigating the Middlebrow' conference at Sheffield Hallam University.

Stephen McClarence, The Times, 23 June 2007

Blogs

'On "Middlebrow"'

The New Yorker, 10 February 2011. Describing Zadie Smith's column in Harper's as in the 'grand middlebrow tradition' prompts a discussion of the term middlebrow.

The Neglected Books Page

'Where forgotten books are remembered'

Literary Taste

A fascinating blog on following the reading list in Arnold Bennett's Literary Taste and How To Form It (1909; revised and reissued 1937)

British Women Novelists, 1910s-1960s: the 'middle-brows'

Lesley Hall's website details novelists in this category, and discusses who makes it in and who does not.

'Middlebrow'

dovergreyreader's blog generated a debate about the term.

'Stuck in the middle with you: Between pop and pretension'

The Guardian musicblog examines popular music and middlebrow culture.

 
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