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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... ideal strikes me as a more salutary vision of the self than the fragmented " personality " American consumer culture encouraged . Genteel intellectuals also dedicated themselves to fostering a widely shared aesthetic sensitivity . I ...
... ideal strikes me as a more salutary vision of the self than the fragmented " personality " American consumer culture encouraged . Genteel intellectuals also dedicated themselves to fostering a widely shared aesthetic sensitivity . I ...
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... " great houses " of the Eastern seaboard . The ideal combined the British legacy of insistence on fine manners , proper speech ,. SELF , CULTURE , AND SELF - CULTURE IN AMERICA. Chapter 1. Self, Culture, and Self-Culture in America.
... " great houses " of the Eastern seaboard . The ideal combined the British legacy of insistence on fine manners , proper speech ,. SELF , CULTURE , AND SELF - CULTURE IN AMERICA. Chapter 1. Self, Culture, and Self-Culture in America.
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... ideal approximated the set of attributes David Riesman labeled " inner direc- tion " in the sense that its exemplars determined their behavior accord- ing to what Riesman called an internalized " psychological gyroscope . " The ...
... ideal approximated the set of attributes David Riesman labeled " inner direc- tion " in the sense that its exemplars determined their behavior accord- ing to what Riesman called an internalized " psychological gyroscope . " The ...
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... ideal of Bildung , they sought to instill " not erudition , so much as culture ; not facts , not reflection , not feats of memory ... but the power of subtle and ready thought , and of apt and finished expression . ” Distinguished from ...
... ideal of Bildung , they sought to instill " not erudition , so much as culture ; not facts , not reflection , not feats of memory ... but the power of subtle and ready thought , and of apt and finished expression . ” Distinguished from ...
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... ideal " was a " duty " that precluded hedonistic self- absorption.21 Emerson's understanding of the role of the critic was similarly com- plicated by a tension between his democratic individualism and his concern to spur cultural change ...
... ideal " was a " duty " that precluded hedonistic self- absorption.21 Emerson's understanding of the role of the critic was similarly com- plicated by a tension between his democratic individualism and his concern to spur cultural change ...
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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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