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The making of middle/brow culture / / Joan Shelley Rubin



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Autore: Rubin Joan Shelley <1947-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The making of middle/brow culture / / Joan Shelley Rubin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1992
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (439 p.)
Disciplina: 028/.9/0973
Soggetto topico: Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century
Literature - Appreciation - United States - History - 20th century
Art appreciation - United States - History - 20th century
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century
Middle class - United States - History - 20th century
Self-culture - History - 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Self, Culture, and Self-Culture in America; Chapter 2. The ""Higher Journalism"" Realigned: Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, and Books; Chapter 3. Why Do You Disappoint Yourself?: The Early History of the Book-of-the-Month Club; Chapter 4. Classics and Commercials: John Erskine and ""Great Books""; Chapter 5. Merchant of Light: Will Durant and the Vogue of the ""Outline""; Chapter 6. Information, Please!: Book Programs on Commercial Radio; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
ZPermissions; illustrations
Sommario/riassunto: The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, ""outline"" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it.Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the beginnings of ""great books"" programs; the creation of the New York Herald Tribune's book-review section
Titolo autorizzato: The making of middle  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908666-0-8
0-8078-6426-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814614503321
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