Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States / / Amy L. Blair
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| Autore: |
Blair Amy L. <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States / / Amy L. Blair
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/88097309041 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - Appreciation - United States - History - 20th century |
| Popular literature - United States - History and criticism | |
| Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Middle class - Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Success in literature | |
| Literature and society - United States - 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: 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reading up |
| ISBN: | 1-283-31969-1 |
| 9786613319692 | |
| 1-4399-0669-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457828503321 |
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