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Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States American Literatures Initiative Edition
Author(s): Amy Blair (Author)
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publication Date: 18 Nov. 2011
- Edition: American Literatures Initiative
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1439906688
- ISBN-13: 9781439906682
Book Description
The role of cultural elites and journalists in promoting reading as a means of self
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This well-researched, thoughtful book adds substantially to our understanding of middlebrow culture. It also has much to teach us about the complexities and variabilities of reading as a social practice. Beautifully written and intellectually deft, Reading Up will interest everyone engaged in the study of American literature and its relationship the larger culture.” -Janice Radway, Communication Studies, Northwestern University, and author of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle-Class Desire
About the Author
Amy L. Blair is an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee.
