TY  - GEN
T1  - A feeling for books : the Book-of-the-Month Club, literary taste, and middle-class desire
A1  - Radway, Janice A., 1949-
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill, N.C.
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44961397
AB  - 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.
OP  - 424
CN  - Z1003.2 .R33 1997eb
SN  - 0807863971
SN  - 9780807863978
SN  - 0807823570
SN  - 9780807823576
SN  - 0807848301
SN  - 9780807848302
KW  - Book-of-the-Month Club : History.
KW  - Book-of-the-Month Club : Histoire.
KW  - Book-of-the-Month Club
KW  - Book-of-the-month club : Histoire.
KW  - Books and reading : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Books and reading : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Popular culture : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Popular culture : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Livres et lecture : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Livres et lecture : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Culture populaire : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Culture populaire : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Books & Reading.
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - Book-of-the-Month Club.
KW  - Boekenclubs.
KW  - General.
KW  - Bibliography - General.
KW  - Livros (história) : Século 19;século 20 : Estados unidos.
KW  - Leitura (história) : Século 19;século 20 : Estados unidos.
KW  - Cultura popular (história) : Século 19;século 20 : Estados unidos.
KW  - Livres et lecture : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Industrie du livre : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Lecture, Goût de la : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Littérature populaire américaine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - 1800-1999
KW  - History
ER  -