Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States - Couverture rigide

Blair, Amy

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ISBN 10 : 143990667X ISBN 13 : 9781439906675

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is OC reading up.OCOa"Reading Up"ais 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.

Framed by an analysis of Hamilton Wright Mabie's role promoting the concept of OC reading upOCO during his ten-year stint as the cultivator of literary taste for the highly populara"Ladies' Home Journal," a"Reading Up"areveals how readers flocked to literary works that they would be expected to dislike. Blair shows that while readers could be led to certain books by a trusted adviser, they frequently followed their own path in interpreting them in unexpected ways.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Amy L. Blair is an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 143990667X
• ISBN 13: 9781439906675
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible