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

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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. Co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blair, Amy L., 1972-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, > 1846-1916 > Knowledge > Literature.
Ladies' home journal.
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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Appreciation.
Books and reading.
Literature and society.
Middle class > Books and reading.
Popular literature.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Cultivating taste in a mass-market world
  • Mr. Mabie tells 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.