Reading up middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States
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. Co...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423715706719 |
| Sumario: | 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.<P |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781283319690 9786613319692 9781439906699 |
