Book review of 'Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880-1930' by McDonald, K. and Singer, C. (eds). London, UK, Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. ISBN: 978-1-137-48677-6

[Extract] Kate Macdonald and Christoph Singer's 2015 collection Transitions in Middlebrow Writing offers a productive intervention in ways of framing middlebrow scholarship by focusing on the interactions between avant-garde and middlebrow cultures as they developed. Taking their cue from Raymond Williams' identification of the period between 1880 and 1914 as an "interregnum" between established "masters" and modern "contemporaries." Macdonald and Singer open up the space between 1880 and 1930 to place late nineteenth-century and early twentieth century literature in the context a number of intensive cultural shifts between the Victorian and Edwardian eras, as the middlebrow emerged in relation to and alongside the avant-garde