A feeling for books :the Book-of-the-Month Club, literary taste, and middle-class desire
- 作者: Radway, Janice A.,
- 出版: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press ©1997.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
- 標題: Popular culture United States -- History -- 19th century. , Livros (história) , Lecture, Goût de la États-Unis -- Histoire. , Livres et lecture États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. , Culture populaire États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. , Leitura (história) , Leitura (história) Século 19;século 20 -- Estados unidos. , Book-of-the-Month Club , Bibliography - General. , Book-of-the-Month Club. , General. , Livres et lecture , Littérature populaire américaine , Book-of-the-month club , Book-of-the-month club Histoire. , History. , Lecture, Goût de la , Popular culture. , Boekenclubs. , Livres et lecture États-Unis -- Histoire. , LITERARY CRITICISM Books & Reading. , Books and reading. , Cultura popular (história) Século 19;século 20 -- Estados unidos. , Books and reading United States -- History -- 19th century. , Littérature populaire américaine Histoire et critique. , Industrie du livre États-Unis -- Histoire. , 1800-1999 , Popular culture , Histoire. , Books and reading , Books and reading United States -- History -- 20th century. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Histoire et critique. , Electronic books. , Book-of-the-Month Club History. , Popular culture United States -- History -- 20th century. , History , Culture populaire , Culture populaire États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. , Books & Reading. , Histoire , Industrie du livre , Livres et lecture États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. , Book-of-the-Month Club Histoire. , United States. , Livros (história) Século 19;século 20 -- Estados unidos. , Cultura popular (história)
- ISBN: 0807863971 , 9780807863978
- ISBN: 0807823570 , 9780807823576 , 0807848301 , 9780807848302
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-410) and index. In the service of the general reader. A certain book club culture ; A business with a mission ; The intelligent generalist and the uses of reading. -- On the history of the middlebrow. The struggle over the book, 1870-1920 ; A modern selling machine for the books: Harry Scherman and the origins of the Book-of-the-Month Club ; Automated book distribution and the negative option: agency and choice in a standardized world. ; The scandal of the middlebrow: the professional-managerial class and the exercise of authority in the literary field ; Reading for a new class: the judges, the practical logic of book selection, and the questions of middlebrow style. -- Books for professionals. A library of books for the aspiring professional: some effects of middlebrow reading.
- 摘要: Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice Radway traces the history of the famous mail-order book club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an enterprise uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Framing her historical narrative with writing of a more personal sort, Radway reflects on th.
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Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice Radway traces the history of the famous mail-order book club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an enterprise uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Framing her historical narrative with writing of a more personal sort, Radway reflects on the contemporary role of the Book-of-the-Month Club in American cultural history and in her own life. Her detailed account of the standards and practices employed by the club's in-house editors is also an absorbing story of her interactions with those editors. Examining her experiences as a fourteen-year-old reader of the club's selections and, later, as a professor of literature, she offers a series of rigorously analytical yet deeply personal readings of such beloved novels as Marjorie Morningstar and To Kill a Mockingbird. Rich and rewarding, this book will captivate and delight anyone who is interested in the history of books and in the personal and transformative experience of reading.
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