A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, & Middle-Class Desire
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1997
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496 pp.
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University of North Carolina Press
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Chapel Hill, NC
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| ISBN |
9780807823576
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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.
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