Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States / Amy L. Blair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blair, Amy L., 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Appreciation--United States--History--20th century.

American literature.

Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.

Popular literature.

Middle class--Books and reading.

History.

American literature--Appreciation.

United States.

Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.

Books and reading.

Middle class--Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.

Middle class.

Success in literature.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Mabie, Hamilton Wright.

Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916.

Literature.

Ladies' home journal.

Physical Description:

ix, 250 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature and asserts the importance of a globalized imaginary in what has been considered an ethnic subgenre of American literature. The thirteen essays in this volume engage works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian American writers who move within and across national boundaries. With its emphasis on the transmigratory and flexible nature of Asian American literary production, the collection argues for an equally balanced mode of criticism that extends our readings of these works beyond the traditional limits of the American literary canon. Individual chapters feature such writers as Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Ha Jin, with attention to such discourses as gender, space and mobility, transnationalism, identity, genre, and post-coloniality.

Contents:

Introduction: cultivating taste in a mass-market world

"Mr. Mabie tells you what to read"

The compromise of Silas Lapham

James for the general reader

Misreading The house of Mirth

The comforts of romanticism

Epilogue: reading up into the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781592134502

9781592134519

OCLC:

716069470