A feeling for books : the Book-of-the-Month Club, literary taste, and middle-class desire /
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1997.
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Table of Contents:
- In the service of the general reader. A certain book club culture ; A business with a mission ; The intelligent generalist and the uses of reading.
- On the history of the middlebrow. The struggle over the book, 1870-1920 ; A modern selling machine for the books: Harry Scherman and the origins of the Book-of-the-Month Club ; Automated book distribution and the negative option: agency and choice in a standardized world. ; The scandal of the middlebrow: the professional-managerial class and the exercise of authority in the literary field ; Reading for a new class: the judges, the practical logic of book selection, and the questions of middlebrow style.
- Books for professionals. A library of books for the aspiring professional: some effects of middlebrow reading.