Title Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States / Amy L. Blair.

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Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 250 pages)
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 -- Knowledge and learning -- Literature.
	Ladies' home journal.
	Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916. (OCoLC)fst00014394
	Englisch, ...
	Leser, ...
	Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld.
	American literature -- Appreciation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
	Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Middle class -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Success in literature.
	Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American literature -- Appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00807120
	Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
	Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
	Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
	Middle class -- Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst01020440
	Popular literature. (OCoLC)fst01071405
	Success in literature. (OCoLC)fst01137076
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Literatur.
	Leserin.
	Bestseller.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Blair, Amy L., 1972- Reading up. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011015287
ISBN	9781439906699 (electronic book)
	1439906696 (electronic book)
Standard No.	9786613319692

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