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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.
- 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.
- Ladies' home journal.
- Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916--Knowledge--Literature.
- Mabie, Hamilton Wright.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up." Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility. Combining methodologies from the history of the book and the history of reading, to mass-cultural studies, reader-response criticism, reception studies, and formalist literary analysis, Blair shows how such critics influenced the choices of striving readers and popularized some elite writers.<P
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cultivating Taste in a Mass-Market World; 1. Mr. Mabie Tells What to Read; 2. The Compromise of Silas Lapham; 3. James for the General Reader; 4. Misreading The House of Mirth; 5. The Comforts of Romanticism; Epilogue: Reading Up into the Twenty-first Century; Appendix A: The Mabie Canon; Appendix B: "Novels Descriptive of American Life"; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613319692
- 9781283319690
- 1283319691
- 9781439906699
- 1439906696
- OCLC:
- 763161322
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