A feeling for books : the Book-of-the-Month Club, literary taste, and middle-class desire /
Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Ja...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1997.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13971 |
| Summary: | Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice Radway traces the history of the famous mail-order book club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an enterprise uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Framing her historical narrative with writing of a more personal sort, Radway reflects on th. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-410) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807863971 9780807863978 0807823570 9780807823576 0807848301 9780807848302 |