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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... Mark Van Doren , and Clifton Fadiman . Hence my omission , as well , of a strictly business undertaking like the Reader's Digest . For some of the same reasons , but , in addition , because the data on audience response were largely ...
... Mark Van Doren , and Clifton Fadiman . Hence my omission , as well , of a strictly business undertaking like the Reader's Digest . For some of the same reasons , but , in addition , because the data on audience response were largely ...
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... marks my approach to the genteel tradition . At their best , genteel critics wanted people to be engaged with society and yet to possess a sense of competence and wholeness that was not contingent on the judgments of others . Although ...
... marks my approach to the genteel tradition . At their best , genteel critics wanted people to be engaged with society and yet to possess a sense of competence and wholeness that was not contingent on the judgments of others . Although ...
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... marks of the successful individual . More broadly , the genteel belief in aesthetic training was essentially humanistic . Grounded as it was in a vision of self - reliance , it presumed the capacity of all readers , once " trained ...
... marks of the successful individual . More broadly , the genteel belief in aesthetic training was essentially humanistic . Grounded as it was in a vision of self - reliance , it presumed the capacity of all readers , once " trained ...
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... Marks of an Educated Man ( 1925 ) , involved “ getting along with other people , " or " get along - ableness . " Reflecting that premise , the adver- tisements for Eliot's volumes in the 1920s and 1930s shed most of their genteel ...
... Marks of an Educated Man ( 1925 ) , involved “ getting along with other people , " or " get along - ableness . " Reflecting that premise , the adver- tisements for Eliot's volumes in the 1920s and 1930s shed most of their genteel ...
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... mark by 1917 , continued to spill over into the humanities . Even more than in the nineteenth century , readers overwhelmed by spiraling numbers of book titles required guidance in selecting the " best " -if only to draw the attention ...
... mark by 1917 , continued to spill over into the humanities . Even more than in the nineteenth century , readers overwhelmed by spiraling numbers of book titles required guidance in selecting the " best " -if only to draw the attention ...
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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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