Characteristically, the middle-brow novel was thus written for and by middle-class women, and could be stigmatised, to use Adorno's term, as a middle-class, bourgeois activity.
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Characteristically, the middle-brow novel was thus written for and by middle-class women, and could be stigmatised, to use Adorno's term, as a middle-class, bourgeois activity.
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'Middle-brow' literature — not to beat about the bush — is inferior literature adapted to the special tastes and needs of the middle class and of those who consciously or not adopt the values of that class.
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David Thorns sets out Suburbia (1973) as a study in which he aims to demonstrate that disdain for the 'middle-brow, conformist, respectable, uninspiring members of society who are quite content to potter around in their own rather limited world' was in fact a view that was 'divorced from the realities of suburban life'.
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The high-brow would like to get rid of the middle-brow, but the middle-brow outnumbers him.
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