Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States by Blair, Amy

Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781439906675)

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Format: Hardcover
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Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States by Blair, Amy

Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

$81.50
Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States by Blair, Amy

Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

$81.50
Format: Hardcover
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A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is OC reading up.OCOa"Reading Up"ais 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 OC reading upOCO during his ten-year stint as the cultivator of literary taste for the highly populara"Ladies' Home Journal," a"Reading Up"areveals how readers flocked to literary works that 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.

Author: Amy Blair
ISBN-10: 143990667X
ISBN-13: 9781439906675
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 12/27/2011 pg. 11
Choice 09/01/2012

By Amy Blair
By Amy Blair
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Amy L. Blair is an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

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