The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the
new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential …

From Instapoetry to BookTube, contemporary literary cultures and practices are increasingly
intertwined with social media. In this lively and wide-ranging study, Bronwen Thomas …

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the
success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling …

This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the
demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer …

Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern
world. It considers the book's deeply intertwined relationships with other media through …

This article questions the relationships between literacy, media literacy and media
education. In the process, we connect the findings from a range of our ethnographic …

Reading groups have grown rapidly in popularity and continue to be a significant cultural
phenomenon. Reading groups in public libraries, linked to the learning and social inclusion …

'The Review and the Reviewer'addresses the role of both the review and the reviewer within
the wider framework of the circulation of books, assessing their roles and relationships to …

Emma Watson started Our Shared Shelf (OSS), a feminist book club, on Goodreads in 2016.
Through her work on gender-equality, Watson has accumulated enough cultural capital to …

Given its provenance in popular journalism and the culture wars of the early to mid-twentieth
century–and before that in the pseudoscience of phrenology–the language of brow-levels is …