{"product_id":"a-feeling-for-books-janice-a-radway-9780807848302","title":"A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire","description":"Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, \u003ci\u003eA Feeling for Books\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMarjorie Morningstar\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janice a. Radway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807848301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807848302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Janice a. Radway","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926309535999,"sku":"9780807848302","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8370c693-0ebd-44ea-aa75-aaf42005f28d.jpg?v=1681082354","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-feeling-for-books-janice-a-radway-9780807848302","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}