Imperial Middlebrow

The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, surveys colonial middlebrow texts concentrating on Britain, India, South Africa, the West Indies, and so on, and uses the concept as a tool to read contemporary writing from Britain and Nigeria.

Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn in Germany. He has published on Scottish writing, writer’s biographies and cultural conceptions of space and mobility from the early modern period to the present.

Jana Gohrisch is Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at Leibniz University Hannover (Germany). She has published two monographs, one on black British literature and one on 19th-c British emotion cultures, and co-edited collections, including Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines (Brill, 2013).