TY - JOUR AU - Verstraeten, Pieter AU - van Hove, Karen PY - 2015/06/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Imagining adventure in Middlebrow fiction: Cosmopolitan Novels by Maurice Dekobra and Johan Fabricius JF - RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE JA - relief VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.18352/relief.910 UR - https://revue-relief.org/article/view/URN%3ANBN%3ANL%3AUI%3A10-1-117145 SP - 102-118 AB - The first half of the twentieth century saw the rise of a new type of novel that straddled the divide between popular entertainment and legitimate culture by combining ‘high’ and ‘low’ literary forms and catering <em>en masse</em> for the tastes of an expanding middleclass reading public. In this article we want to explore the ways in which the novels <em>La Madone des sleepings</em> (1925) by the bestselling French novelist Maurice Dekobra and <em>Venetiaansch avontuur </em>[Venetian adventure] (1931) by the Dutch author Johan Fabricius fit into this broad category of the middlebrow novel and how their use of <em>adventure </em>as a structural devise might complicate the common view of the middlebrow novel as a form of <em>domestic</em> realism. ER -