Add to ORKGThe first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new type of novel that straddled the divide between popular entertainment and legitimate culture by combining ‘high’ and ‘low’ literary forms and catering en masse for the tastes of an expanding middleclass reading public. In this article we want to explore the ways in which the novels La Madone des sleepings (1925) by the bestselling French novelist Maurice Dekobra and Venetiaansch avontuur [Venetian adventure] (1931) by the Dutch author Johan Fabricius fit into this broad category of the middlebrow novel and how their use of adventure as a structural devise might complicate the common view of the middlebrow novel as a form of domestic realism
This thesis examines the relationship between romance and Max Weber’s narrative of the disenchantmen...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
A study of changing narrative forms in the nineteenth-century European novel. The changing fortunes ...
The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new type of novel that straddled the divid...
The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new type of novel that straddled the divid...
Dekobra appears in La Madone des Sleepings as a middlebrow author in his treatment of exotic adventu...
This article focuses on the discussion of expatriation and on the representations of modernism in a ...
Presenting the case of the introduction of a series of ‘New Novels’ in 1909, this article analyzes t...
As starting point of our article, we make the assumption that the so-called ‘vie romancée’ should no...
Shortly after the publication of La Madone des sleepings in 1925, Maurice Dekobra became a household...
The aim of this essay is to determine whether the concept of the middlebrow can also be translated t...
The allocation of a novel to the category ‘middlebrow’ is partly a matter of marketing and shifting ...
Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
A century ago, the golden age of magazine publishing coincided with the beginning of a golden age of...
This thesis examines the relationship between romance and Max Weber’s narrative of the disenchantmen...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
A study of changing narrative forms in the nineteenth-century European novel. The changing fortunes ...
The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new type of novel that straddled the divid...
The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new type of novel that straddled the divid...
Dekobra appears in La Madone des Sleepings as a middlebrow author in his treatment of exotic adventu...
This article focuses on the discussion of expatriation and on the representations of modernism in a ...
Presenting the case of the introduction of a series of ‘New Novels’ in 1909, this article analyzes t...
As starting point of our article, we make the assumption that the so-called ‘vie romancée’ should no...
Shortly after the publication of La Madone des sleepings in 1925, Maurice Dekobra became a household...
The aim of this essay is to determine whether the concept of the middlebrow can also be translated t...
The allocation of a novel to the category ‘middlebrow’ is partly a matter of marketing and shifting ...
Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
A century ago, the golden age of magazine publishing coincided with the beginning of a golden age of...
This thesis examines the relationship between romance and Max Weber’s narrative of the disenchantmen...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
A study of changing narrative forms in the nineteenth-century European novel. The changing fortunes ...