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Author:

Blair, Amy L., 1972-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

ix, 250 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History--United States--History--20th century.
Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.
Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
Middle class--History--United States--History--20th century.
Success in literature.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright,--1846-1916--Literature.--Literature.
Ladies' home journal.

Notes:

Includes bibliography: p. [211]-240 and index.

Contents:

Introduction: cultivating taste in a mass-market world -- "Mr. Mabie tells you 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.

ISBN:

143990667X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439906675 (cloth : alk. paper)
1592134513 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781592134519 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1592134505 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781592134502 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)716069470

LCCN:

2011015287

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)