The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Identifying the Middlebrow, the Masculine and Mr Miniver; K.Macdonald Reading Class, Examining Men: Anthologies, Education, and Literary Cultures; S.McPherson The Evolution of the Masculine Middlebrow: Gissing, Bennett, Priestley; C.E.Hill 'Watching the Papers daily in Fear and Trembling': the Boer War and the Invention of Masculine Middlebrow Literary Culture; J.Wild Professionalism and the Cultural Politics of Work in the Sherlock Holmes stories; C.Clarke From Holmes to the Drones: Fantasies of Men without Women in the Masculine Middlebrow;  N.Humble Healing Landscapes and evolving Nationalism in interwar Canadian Middlebrow Fiction of the First World War; A.Tector 'Everybody's Essayist': on Middles and Middlebrows; C.Pollentier Modernity and the Gendering of Middlebrow Book Culture in Australia; D.Carter 'Mind's Middle Distances': Men of Letters in interwar New Zealand; C.Hilliard The Political Middlebrow from Chesterton to Orwell; A.Vaninskaya 'The Collaborator, the Tyrant, and the Resistance': The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and Masculine Middlebrow England in the Second World War; A.Rea Bibliography Index