A pedagogical project. Middlebrow literature from Flanders in the interwar period KU Leuven
In the interwar years, as a result of a range of historical factors, the political emancipation of the masses (and of specific social groups, such as peasants, women and laborers) is highly accelerated. Diverse cultural actors (from individual authors to important publishing houses) seize this opportunity to make literature and other forms of ‘high’ culture available to a wide reading public. They combine this democratization of culture with ...