Umfang:
Online-Ressource (ix, 250 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781592134519
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9781439906682
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9781592134502
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9781439906699
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9781283319690
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.Framed by an
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781439906675
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reading Up : Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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