Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945

Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn in Germany. He has published on Scottish writing, writer's biographies and cultural conceptions of space and mobility from the early modern period to the present. Cornelia Wachter is Assistant Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The 'Warder' in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (Rodopi/Brill, 2015).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: “... all granite, fog and female fiction”Christoph Ehland and Cornelia WächterPart I: Contact ZonesThe Short Fiction of New Woman Writers in Avant- Garde, Mainstream, and Popular Periodicals of the Fin de SiècleStephanie Eggermont and Elke D’hokerModernism and the Middlebrow in British Women’s Magazines, 1916-1930Alice WoodGender, Disability, Wartime: The Woman’s Body and the Disabled Ex-Serviceman in the First World WarKate MacdonaldComplementary Cousins: Constructing the Maternal in the Writing of Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine MansfieldIsobel MaddisonPart II: Heroics of the EverydayMiddlebrow “Everyman” or Modernist Figurehead? Experiencing Modernity through the Eyes of the Humble ClerkNicola Bishop“The Heroine of a Modern Sea Epic”: The New Woman Adventuress in Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer GirlTara MacDonald The Adventures of the Lady Typist: Redefining the Heroic in Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Spy FictionEmma Grundy HaighPart III: Gender, Sexuality, and the Management of AnxietyClemence Dane’s Fantastical Fiction and Feminist ConsciousnessLouise McDonaldThe Painted Veil: Re-Inventing the Colonial Woman and the Hinterland NarrativeWendy GanVictoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life: Queering Middlebrow FeminismPetra Dierkes-ThrunMiddlebrow Negotiations of Lawrentian Sexuality in Una Silberrad’s DesireCornelia Wächter“Ordinary” Sexuality, the “Dirty Little Secret” and the Indecent Highbrow Modernist: Sexuality in Married Love and Lady Chatterley’s LoverAnn ReaIndex