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Author Blair, Amy L., 1972-

Title Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States / Amy L. Blair.

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 250 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Cultivating taste in a mass-market world -- Mr. Mabie tells what to read -- The compromise of Silas Lapham -- James for the general reader -- Misreading The house of Mirth -- The comforts of romanticism -- Epilogue: Reading up into the twenty-first century.
Summary 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 analysis of Hamilton Wright Mabie's role promoting the concept of reading up during his ten-year stint as the cultivator of literary taste for the highly popular Ladies' Home Journal, Reading Up reveals how readers flocked to literary works 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.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
Ladies' home journal.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwxGdHTW63GqRvygqDjG3
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
American literature -- Appreciation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Middle class -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Success in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Littérature américaine -- Appréciation -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Paralittérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.
Succès dans la littérature.
Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Appreciation
Literature
Books and reading
Literature and society
Middle class -- Books and reading
Popular literature
Success in literature
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Englisch
Leser
Literatur
Leserin
Bestseller
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: Blair, Amy L., 1972- Reading up. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011015287
ISBN 9781439906699 (electronic bk.)
1439906696 (electronic bk.)
9781592134502
9781592134519
1439906688
9781439906682
1283319691
9781283319690
Standard No. 9786613319692
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AU@ 000053026669
AU@ 000055779117
DEBBG BV044158758
DEBSZ 43105407X
GBVCP 1003685048
AU@ 000075798677
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