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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... offered on the new medium of radio . By the 1930s broadcasting also routinely enabled literary critics such as Woollcott and Phelps to bring their commentary directly into American living rooms . Innovations in print journalism — the ...
... offered on the new medium of radio . By the 1930s broadcasting also routinely enabled literary critics such as Woollcott and Phelps to bring their commentary directly into American living rooms . Innovations in print journalism — the ...
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... offered " prac- tical rules " for reading , mingling homage to personal taste ( " Never read any but what you like ” ) with two other principles that exalted the classics : " Never read any book that is not a year old ” and “ Never read ...
... offered " prac- tical rules " for reading , mingling homage to personal taste ( " Never read any but what you like ” ) with two other principles that exalted the classics : " Never read any book that is not a year old ” and “ Never read ...
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... offering inexpensive editions of fiction mushroomed in the 1870s and 1880s . The distribution of such works through newsdealers as well as booksellers added to their accessibility . Similarly , SELF , CULTURE , AND SELF - CULTURE | 17.
... offering inexpensive editions of fiction mushroomed in the 1870s and 1880s . The distribution of such works through newsdealers as well as booksellers added to their accessibility . Similarly , SELF , CULTURE , AND SELF - CULTURE | 17.
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... Offering predictable warnings against sensational novels , he also fended off attacks on the primacy of disci- pline , insisting that the entertaining " quick read " had no place in Christian nurture . Even so , the salient feature of ...
... Offering predictable warnings against sensational novels , he also fended off attacks on the primacy of disci- pline , insisting that the entertaining " quick read " had no place in Christian nurture . Even so , the salient feature of ...
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... offered students the opportunity to become exemplars of broad knowl- edge , humanistic feeling , and proper conduct . The introduction of the elective system in the 1870s - which Eliot spearheaded - entrenched the advocates of ...
... offered students the opportunity to become exemplars of broad knowl- edge , humanistic feeling , and proper conduct . The introduction of the elective system in the 1870s - which Eliot spearheaded - entrenched the advocates 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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