2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Middlebrow Literature and Culture in Britain
| Project/Area Number |
26370293
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | ミドルブラウ文化・文学 / ジェンダー / イギリス / 定期刊行物 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The project showed that Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, British middlebrow women writers, fought the "Battle of the Brows" against such highbrow modernist writers as Virginia Woolf and Q. D. Leavis. Holtby and Brittain, through their novels and articles they wrote as journalists in middlebrow periodicals such as Good Housekeeping, negotiated the terrain between high and low culture, thereby blurring the boundaries between two cultures by promoting the cultural aspiration the middlebrow readers embraced.
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| Free Research Field |
イギリス文学
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