Selected Presentations from the Middlebrow Cultures Conference,
14-15 July 2009

The lingerie dress and Edwardian innocence in The Go-Between (1970)
Sarah Edwards, University of Strathclyde, UK

Sleeping with the Enemy?: Colonial Sex in Two Middlebrow Novels of the 1920s
Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College, US

'Testing the Limits of the Middlebrow: the Holocaust for the Masses'
Professor Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University

A middlebrow celebrity opinion piece in Pearson’s Magazine, 1906
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent, Belgium

Reassessing Middlebrow Drama during the Second World War [1.17MB]
Rebecca D'Monte, University of the West of England, UK

‘What Every Woman Wants to Know’; Women in the Interwar Suburban Garden [2.88MB]
Sarah Rawlins, University of Sheffield, UK

Self-Portrait of the Middlebrow as Artist: Oliver Sandys on/in Caradoc Evans (1945)
Chris Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Special Session: Researching the Middlebrow

Poetry and the Middlebrow, Jane Dowson, De Montfort University

Readerships and Popular Culture 1880-1950: an archive of popular fiction, Mary Grover, Sheffield Hallam University. Authors to be held in the archive.

Neither Fanatical nor Lukewarm: Amateur Cinema as Middlebrow Culture [1.74MB], Ian Craven, University of Glasgow.