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 device might complicate the common view of the middlebrow novel as a form of domestic realism
This thesis explores the perceived identification between reader and central character in a selectio...
Page range: 97-124Themes of empire and sexual degeneracy permeate the works of fin-de-siècle authors...
Abstract: In research on early nineteenth-century Dutch literature, the idea predominates that genre...
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...
Presenting the case of the introduction of a series of ‘New Novels’ in 1909, this article analyzes t...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
The allocation of a novel to the category ‘middlebrow’ is partly a matter of marketing and shifting ...
This article focuses on Lodewijk van Deyssel’s fascinating novel Blank en geel (White and Yellow) (1...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
This essay considers how various European novels written and published around the turn of the millen...
This article examines how the narrator of Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder recalls the figures of the P...
As starting point of our article, we make the assumption that the so-called ‘vie romancée’ should no...
With the emergence of an international bestseller culture in the first half of the twentieth century...
Book Friends focuses on three men on a mission: Gerard van Eckeren, Roel Houwink and Anthonie Donker...
This thesis explores the perceived identification between reader and central character in a selectio...
Page range: 97-124Themes of empire and sexual degeneracy permeate the works of fin-de-siècle authors...
Abstract: In research on early nineteenth-century Dutch literature, the idea predominates that genre...
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...
Presenting the case of the introduction of a series of ‘New Novels’ in 1909, this article analyzes t...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
The allocation of a novel to the category ‘middlebrow’ is partly a matter of marketing and shifting ...
This article focuses on Lodewijk van Deyssel’s fascinating novel Blank en geel (White and Yellow) (1...
The middlebrow novel has often been characterized as a highly didactic and pedagogical literary form...
This essay considers how various European novels written and published around the turn of the millen...
This article examines how the narrator of Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder recalls the figures of the P...
As starting point of our article, we make the assumption that the so-called ‘vie romancée’ should no...
With the emergence of an international bestseller culture in the first half of the twentieth century...
Book Friends focuses on three men on a mission: Gerard van Eckeren, Roel Houwink and Anthonie Donker...
This thesis explores the perceived identification between reader and central character in a selectio...
Page range: 97-124Themes of empire and sexual degeneracy permeate the works of fin-de-siècle authors...
Abstract: In research on early nineteenth-century Dutch literature, the idea predominates that genre...