Download or read book Middlebrow Literary Cultures written by E. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational.