A Feeling for Books
The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
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Publication
1999-08-18 - The University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Word Count
112,000 words, Guess
Page Count
448 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefeelingforbooksb0000jani
- ISBN-100807848301
- ISBN-139780807848302
- LibraryThing323993
- Goodreads426514
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- Better World Books9780807848302
- Better World BooksO8-DGE-958
- Open LibraryOL7972656M
Classifications
- LCC96-52037 [Z]
- DDC028/.9/0973
- LCCZ1003.2 .R33 1997
Description
A Feeling for Books is at once a fascinating study of an influential cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation on the love of books and the experience of reading. Deftly melding cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, Janice Radway traces the history of the Book-of-the-Month Club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an organization uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Working, as an ethnographer would, from interviews with club employees and with records left by the club's founders and original judges, Radway reconstructs the standards and ethos as well as the tastes and passions that drove club officials. In the process, she provides an insightful look at the attractions of middlebrow culture and an intriguing account of middle-class Americans' desire to display the tasteful signs of learning and education.
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It may have been simple anxiety.
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It may have been simple anxiety.
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