The aesthetics of middlebrow fiction popular us novels modernism and form 1945 75 tom tom perrins study of middlebrow fiction from the post war and cold war united states offers a new set of identifications with which to categorize novels and authors as middlebrow within a specifically us context. The aesthetics of middlebrow fiction examines the critically acclaimed popular novels that were labeled middlebrow in the us during the cold war this period saw a vogue for the term middlebrow with articles on the topic in magazines like harpers and life there was even a song about middle brow taste in touch and go a 1949 broadway . Download citation the aesthetics of middlebrow fiction popular us novels modernism and form 1945 75 the aesthetics of middlebrow fiction examines the critically acclaimed popular novels . The aesthetics of middlebrow fiction book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers during the cold war many popular american novels wer. The aesthetics of middlebrow fiction popular us novels modernism and form 1945 75 perrin tom 9781137541307 books amazonca