UID:
almahu_9949577207202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (264 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-31969-1
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9786613319692
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1-4399-0669-6
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4399-0667-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4399-0668-8
Sprache:
Englisch
