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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Blair, Amy L. (1972-....)
Titre(s) : Reading up [Texte imprimé] : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States / Amy L. Blair
Publication : Philadelphia (Pa.) : Temple University press, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-250 p.) ; 23 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-240) and index
"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."--Amazon.com
Sujet(s) : Mabie, Hamilton Wright (1846-1916)
Paralittérature -- États-Unis
Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781439906682 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1439906688 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9781439906675 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 143990667X (hbk.) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42587858g
Notice n° :
FRBNF42587858
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