Charting American Habitus: an analysis of ‘middlebrow’ fiction and its readership through the prism of Donna Tartt’s published novels

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Charting American Habitus: an analysis of ‘middlebrow’ fiction and its readership through the prism of Donna Tartt’s published novels

This thesis aims to address the paucity of research on contemporary middlebrow fiction and the ongoing tensions in the American literary hierarchy by focussing on the published novels of author Donna Tartt. By examining Tartt’s fiction both through a close reading analysis and an examination of para...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Beestone, Kelly
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	Tartt Donna Tartt habitus Bbourdieu American literature literature contemporary fiction middlebrow
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55571/

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