The Making of Middlebrow CultureUniv of North Carolina Press, 09.11.2000 - 438 Seiten The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it. Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the beginnings of "great books" programs; the creation of the New York Herald Tribune's book-review section; the popularity of such works as Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy; and the emergence of literary radio programs. She also investigates the lives and expectations of the individuals who shaped these middlebrow institutions--such figures as Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Erskine, William Lyon Phelps, Alexander Woollcott, and Clifton Fadiman. Moreover, as she pursues the significance of these cultural intermediaries who connected elites and the masses by interpreting ideas to the public, Rubin forces a reconsideration of the boundary between high culture and popular sensibility. |
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... John Erskine and " Great Books , " 148 Chapter 5. Merchant of Light : Will Durant and the Vogue of the " Outline , " 209 Chapter 6. Information , Please !: Book Programs on Commercial Radio , 266 Notes , 331 Bibliography , 373 Index ...
... John Erskine and " Great Books , " 148 Chapter 5. Merchant of Light : Will Durant and the Vogue of the " Outline , " 209 Chapter 6. Information , Please !: Book Programs on Commercial Radio , 266 Notes , 331 Bibliography , 373 Index ...
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... John Erskine papers then in the possession of her family . Of the numerous librarians who facilitated my research , I owe special thanks to Bernard Crystal of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library , Columbia University ; the refreshingly ...
... John Erskine papers then in the possession of her family . Of the numerous librarians who facilitated my research , I owe special thanks to Bernard Crystal of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library , Columbia University ; the refreshingly ...
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... John Morley , Leslie Stephen , and Gold- win Smith . Those figures shared with Norton and his circle a commit- ment to John Stuart Mill's liberalism ; they assigned to the " best men ” ( like themselves ) the task of freeing society at ...
... John Morley , Leslie Stephen , and Gold- win Smith . Those figures shared with Norton and his circle a commit- ment to John Stuart Mill's liberalism ; they assigned to the " best men ” ( like themselves ) the task of freeing society at ...
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... John Kasson has written , " participated in the commercialization of American culture ; but in their public postures they resolutely directed their gazes above the coarse and vulgar realities of everyday life to the lofty realm of the ...
... John Kasson has written , " participated in the commercialization of American culture ; but in their public postures they resolutely directed their gazes above the coarse and vulgar realities of everyday life to the lofty realm of the ...
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... John Bascom " a man much of [ Emerson's ] type , both in appearance and in character . " While the presidents ' symbolism of pro- fessional accomplishment aided the proponents of utilitarianism by contributing to modern conceptions of ...
... John Bascom " a man much of [ Emerson's ] type , both in appearance and in character . " While the presidents ' symbolism of pro- fessional accomplishment aided the proponents of utilitarianism by contributing to modern conceptions of ...
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Stuart Pratt Sherman Irita Van Doren and Books | 34 |
The Early History of the BookoftheMonth Club | 93 |
John Erskine and Great Books | 148 |
illustrations | 199 |
Will Durant and the Vogue of the Outline | 209 |
Book Programs on Commercial Radio | 266 |
Notes | 331 |
Bibliography | 373 |
Index | 405 |
Permissions | 415 |
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