@book{13475,
  author = {Janice A. Radway},
  title = {A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, & Middle-Class Desire},
  year = {1997},
  pages = {496 pp.},
  publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
  address = {Chapel Hill, NC},
  isbn = {9780807823576},
  note = {Contents:
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.},
  language = {English},
}