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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... moral substance . Mere draw- ing - room performance - the display of wit , beauty , and similar attri- butes of refinement - was counterposed to " true gentility , " in which those exterior signs corresponded to inner virtues such as ...
... moral substance . Mere draw- ing - room performance - the display of wit , beauty , and similar attri- butes of refinement - was counterposed to " true gentility , " in which those exterior signs corresponded to inner virtues such as ...
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... moral and intellectual qualities that could never be bought . Yet middle - class Americans in the mid - nineteenth century scrambled to purchase replicas of luxury items ( carpets , upholstery , watches ) in order to mimic the upper ...
... moral and intellectual qualities that could never be bought . Yet middle - class Americans in the mid - nineteenth century scrambled to purchase replicas of luxury items ( carpets , upholstery , watches ) in order to mimic the upper ...
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... moral standards . By contrast , the fashionable man , as Horace Bushnell stated , wore his soul " on the outside of him . " Assuredly , the idea that culture entailed the observance of " taste " did not obliterate the tie of either of ...
... moral standards . By contrast , the fashionable man , as Horace Bushnell stated , wore his soul " on the outside of him . " Assuredly , the idea that culture entailed the observance of " taste " did not obliterate the tie of either of ...
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... moral philosophers who shaped Unitarian theology - figures such as Joseph Stevens Buckminster , An- drews Norton , and William Ellery Channing - articulated a complex moral and aesthetic vision of gentility . To them , the attainment of ...
... moral philosophers who shaped Unitarian theology - figures such as Joseph Stevens Buckminster , An- drews Norton , and William Ellery Channing - articulated a complex moral and aesthetic vision of gentility . To them , the attainment of ...
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... moral and aesthetic . Moral taste was the quality of taking delight in the perception of virtue . Aesthetic taste described a similar response to beauty . It is true that , for Norton and his col- leagues , literature which was not ...
... moral and aesthetic . Moral taste was the quality of taking delight in the perception of virtue . Aesthetic taste described a similar response to beauty . It is true that , for Norton and his col- leagues , literature which was not ...
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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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