Middlebrow Matters

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Shortlisted for the 2019 R. Gapper book prize Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, 2018. This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of l