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Genre Fiction and the Middlebrow | i wasnt expecting this article to seethe about virginia woolf

https://pop-verse.com/2018/01/15/genre-fiction-and-the-middlebrow
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[…] Woolf […] the author and essayist claimed that the middlebrows were readers who bought books rather than read them. They did so not out of an ability to recognise their innate merit or cultural value, but to look impressive on their bookshelves. These middlebrows were, in her eyes, vulgar pretenders incapable of engaging with deeper issues of art, integrity and aesthetics

Yes, she's right. People love reading trash (YA, romance, pulp, etc), a much smaller number of people opt for more literary works, what connects them is that they read. And then you have people buying M. Obama book or whatever to put on coffee table.

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yea the thing is that Woolf isnt talking about fiction that's an inbetween between low and highbrow. the author seems to think that's what she means. what she means is that she dislikes a group of people who buy what is recommended for social brownie points. middlebrow fiction like breaking bad, sopranos and the wire isn't the same as what she's talking about, which is the middlebrow audience. the middlebrow audience would like something like breaking bad for what it represents rather than its quality

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