A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
Editorial Reviews
Chronicle of Higher Education
A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire is more personal than Dr. Radway's previous work, weaving her own history into that of the book club. And it turned out to be more sympathetic than she expected to what detractors have long labeled the club's `middlebrow' taste.
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The New York Times Book Review, Fred Miller Robinson
The most interesting things about this book are its problems ... What makes the book at once more ambitious, distinctive and problematic is that Radway frames her study with a kind of intellectual and social autobiography. In Part I she describes her time spent with the Book-of-the-Month Club in the late 1980's ... In Part 2 she recaptures how some of the club's selections ... affected her when she read them as a girl and tries to understand the content of middlebrow culture through her present rereading of them.
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edition.
A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire,Janice A. Radway,University of North Carolina Press,0807848301,Books & Reading,Literary,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,United States - 20th Century,Anthropology,Association: clubs, societies,Literary studies: general,Social history,USA,c 1800 to c 1900
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