A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire New Edition
Author(s): Janice A. Radway (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: 30 Aug. 1999
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807848301
- ISBN-13: 9780807848302
Book Description
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Editorial Reviews
Review
Ambitious and engrossing, and it leaves us with much to ponder.
“Washington Post Book World”
Not only lays bare the forces that produced middlebrow reading but also explains a good deal of what is going on in the world of books today.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “New York Times”
“Ambitious and engrossing, and it leaves us with much to ponder.
“Washington Post Book World””
“Not only lays bare the forces that produced middlebrow reading but also explains a good deal of what is going on in the world of books today.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “New York Times””
Essential reading for scholars interested in the history of the book and popular culture.
“American Literature”
It is the best book I know on the mind altering powers of reading for pleasure.
“American Quarterly”
Radway has written one of the most important books in this decade.
“Libraries and Culture”
From the Inside Flap
For anyone who is interested in the history of books and in the personal and transformative experience of reading. Radway offers both an engaging look at the Book-of the-Month Club s role as a cultural institution and a profound meditation on the love of books.
From the Back Cover
For anyone who is interested in the history of books and in the personal and transformative experience of reading. Radway offers both an engaging look at the Book-of the-Month Club s role as a cultural institution and a profound meditation on the love of books.
About the Author
Janice A. Radway is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication and professor of American studies and gender studies at Northwestern University and author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature.
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