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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Radway, Janice A., 1949- Feeling for books. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)651780349 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Janice A Radway |
ISBN: | 0807823570 9780807823576 0807848301 9780807848302 |
OCLC Number: | 36126876 |
Description: | xiii, 424 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | In the service of the general reader. A certain book club culture ; A business with a mission ; The intelligent generalist and the uses of reading. -- On the history of the middlebrow. The struggle over the book, 1870-1920 ; A modern selling machine for the books: Harry Scherman and the origins of the Book-of-the-Month Club ; Automated book distribution and the negative option: agency and choice in a standardized world. ; The scandal of the middlebrow: the professional-managerial class and the exercise of authority in the literary field ; Reading for a new class: the judges, the practical logic of book selection, and the questions of middlebrow style. -- Books for professionals. A library of books for the aspiring professional: some effects of middlebrow reading. |
Responsibility: | Janice A. Radway. |
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A history of the Book-of-the-Month Club from its founding in 1926, which suggests that the books recommended by the club have been instrumental in forming literary taste in America and in defining the desires of the middle class. The author also reflects on the role of the club in her own life.
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