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9780807820100

The Making of Middlebrow Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807820100

  • ISBN10:

    0807820105

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

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Summary

Examines the growth of book clubs, reading groups, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century to chronicle the rise of middlebrow culture

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Self, Culture, and Self-Culture in America
1(33)
The ``Higher Journalism'' Realigned: Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, and Books
34(59)
Why Do You Disappoint Yourself?: The Early History of the Book-of-the-Month Club
93(55)
Classics and Commercials: John Erskine and ``Great Books''
148(61)
Merchant of Light: Will Durant and the Vogue of the ``Outline''
209(57)
Information, Please!: Book Programs on Commercial Radio
266(65)
Notes 331(42)
Bibliography 373(32)
Index 405(10)
Permissions 415

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