Imperial Middlebrow
Published on 28. May 2020
Book
Hardback
258 pages
978-90-04-42655-9 (ISBN)
Description
The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, takes middlebrow studies further in two ways. First, it focuses on the role middlebrow writing played in the popularisation and dissemination of imperial ideology. It combines the interest in the wider function of literature for a colonial society with close scrutiny of the ideological and socio-economic contexts of writers and readers. The essays cover the Girl's Own Paper, fiction about colonial India including its appearance in Scottish writing, the West Indies, the South Pacific, as well as illustrations of Haggard's South African imperial romances. Second, the volume proposes using the concept of the middlebrow as an analytical tool to read recent Black and Asian British as well as Nigerian fiction.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42655-9 (9789004426559)
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Persons
Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn (Germany). He has published on Scottish writing, writer's biographies and cultural conceptions of space and mobility from the early modern period to the present.He is co-editor of Middlebrow and Gender: 1890-1945 (Brill, 2016).
Jana Gohrisch is Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). She has published two monographs, one on Black British literature and one on 19th-century British emotion cultures, and co-edited collections, including Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines (Brill, 2013).
Jana Gohrisch is Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). She has published two monographs, one on Black British literature and one on 19th-century British emotion cultures, and co-edited collections, including Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines (Brill, 2013).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Cross-colonial Encounters and Expressions of Power in Middlebrow Literature and Culture, 1890-1940 and the Present
??Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch
A Girl's Own Empire? Imperialism and the Girl's Own Paper, 1880 to 1903
??Jochen Petzold
Picturing Africa: Illustration in the Allan Quatermain Adventure Fictions of H. Rider Haggard
??Kate Holterhoff
"Cramful of snakes and ghosts": B.M. Croker's Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories
??Christoph Singer
"An artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be cool": Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow Aesthetics
??Samuel Caddick
Imagining the British West Indies in Middlebrow Fiction
??Jana Gohrisch
"Intimacies of complicity and critique": Race, Gender and Sexuality in Victoria Cross's Imperial Fiction
??Cornelia Waechter
Cross-colonial Encounters and Cultural Contestation in Somerset Maugham's "Rain"
??Victoria Kuttainen
Revising the Romance: Depictions of Biracial Women and Mixed Marriage in Anglo-Indian Popular Fiction
??Melissa Edmundson
"A small seasoning of curry-powder" in A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle
??Robert Wirth
Sidelining Racism and Discrimination - Recent British Black and Asian Fiction
??Gesa Stedman
Middlebrow 2.0: The Digital Affect and the New Nigerian Novel
??Hannah Pardey
?Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Cross-colonial Encounters and Expressions of Power in Middlebrow Literature and Culture, 1890-1940 and the Present
??Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch
A Girl's Own Empire? Imperialism and the Girl's Own Paper, 1880 to 1903
??Jochen Petzold
Picturing Africa: Illustration in the Allan Quatermain Adventure Fictions of H. Rider Haggard
??Kate Holterhoff
"Cramful of snakes and ghosts": B.M. Croker's Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories
??Christoph Singer
"An artificial little community which has climbed eight thousand feet out of the world to be cool": Sara Jeanette Duncan, Simla, and Middlebrow Aesthetics
??Samuel Caddick
Imagining the British West Indies in Middlebrow Fiction
??Jana Gohrisch
"Intimacies of complicity and critique": Race, Gender and Sexuality in Victoria Cross's Imperial Fiction
??Cornelia Waechter
Cross-colonial Encounters and Cultural Contestation in Somerset Maugham's "Rain"
??Victoria Kuttainen
Revising the Romance: Depictions of Biracial Women and Mixed Marriage in Anglo-Indian Popular Fiction
??Melissa Edmundson
"A small seasoning of curry-powder" in A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle
??Robert Wirth
Sidelining Racism and Discrimination - Recent British Black and Asian Fiction
??Gesa Stedman
Middlebrow 2.0: The Digital Affect and the New Nigerian Novel
??Hannah Pardey
?Index