Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism.

DAVID CARTER Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia CLARE CLARKE Doctoral Researcher, School of English, Queen's University Belfast, UK CLIVE E HILL University of London International Programme, UK CHRISTOPHER HILLIARD Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia NICOLA HUMBLE Professor of English Literature, Roehampton University, UK SUE MCPHERSON Lecturer in English Literature, Sheffield Hallam University, UK CAROLINE POLLENTIER Doctoral Student, University of Paris 7, France ANNE REA Lecturer in English Literature, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA AMY TECTOR Photo Archivist, Library and Archives, Canada ANNA VANINSKAYA Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK JONATHAN WILD Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK