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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... Library Resources . Manufactured in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 98 7 6 5 4 3 Permission to reproduce quoted matter can be found on pages 415-16 of this book . Library of Congress Cataloging - in- Publication Data Rubin ...
... Library Resources . Manufactured in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 98 7 6 5 4 3 Permission to reproduce quoted matter can be found on pages 415-16 of this book . Library of Congress Cataloging - in- Publication Data Rubin ...
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... Library , Columbia University ; the refreshingly unbureau- cratic interlibrary loan staff of the University of Rochester Library ; and the reference department at the University of Rochester . It is a pleasure to acknowledge the deft ...
... Library , Columbia University ; the refreshingly unbureau- cratic interlibrary loan staff of the University of Rochester Library ; and the reference department at the University of Rochester . It is a pleasure to acknowledge the deft ...
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... libraries facilitated the dissemination of knowledge with revamped cataloguing , open stacks , and information services . As early as 1927 , when Fisher com- piled a survey of such ventures for the Carnegie Corporation , so many ...
... libraries facilitated the dissemination of knowledge with revamped cataloguing , open stacks , and information services . As early as 1927 , when Fisher com- piled a survey of such ventures for the Carnegie Corporation , so many ...
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... library system as the last bastion of gentility nevertheless declares that the " genteel tradition tottered and collapsed in the second decade of the new cen- tury . " Concomitantly , historians concerned with the organization of ...
... library system as the last bastion of gentility nevertheless declares that the " genteel tradition tottered and collapsed in the second decade of the new cen- tury . " Concomitantly , historians concerned with the organization of ...
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... library at my disposal , but no money to employ teachers . " Mabie's advice was straightforward - to " read only the best books . " Yet the exchange depended on a number of unspoken assumptions : that culture could be dissociated from ...
... library at my disposal , but no money to employ teachers . " Mabie's advice was straightforward - to " read only the best books . " Yet the exchange depended on a number of unspoken assumptions : that culture could be dissociated from ...
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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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