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Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States /
A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is 'reading up.' Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility. Co...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Cultivating taste in a mass-market world
- Mr. Mabie tells 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.