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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... exploration of the middlebrow perspective serves a second aim : to reassess the fate of the so - called genteel tradition in modern America . When George Santayana introduced that label in xvi❘ THE MAKING OF MIDDLEBROW CULTURE.
... exploration of the middlebrow perspective serves a second aim : to reassess the fate of the so - called genteel tradition in modern America . When George Santayana introduced that label in xvi❘ THE MAKING OF MIDDLEBROW CULTURE.
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... served the needs of an economy dependent on diligent producers . Animated by a firmly grounded sense of the self as interior , persons of character were also , paradoxically , selfless . Public - spirited and cog- nizant of moral ...
... served the needs of an economy dependent on diligent producers . Animated by a firmly grounded sense of the self as interior , persons of character were also , paradoxically , selfless . Public - spirited and cog- nizant of moral ...
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... served as a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Along with Norton and Godkin , he was especially committed , as chapter 2 will relate , to inculcating gen- teel values through the mechanism of the " higher , " or noncommercial ...
... served as a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Along with Norton and Godkin , he was especially committed , as chapter 2 will relate , to inculcating gen- teel values through the mechanism of the " higher , " or noncommercial ...
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Joan Shelley Rubin. which served as sources for refinement or sites at which it could be calibrated . One such testing ground was the theater or the concert hall . Lawrence W. Levine has forcefully insisted that , in the antebellum ...
Joan Shelley Rubin. which served as sources for refinement or sites at which it could be calibrated . One such testing ground was the theater or the concert hall . Lawrence W. Levine has forcefully insisted that , in the antebellum ...
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... served to reinforce the idea that the purpose of college education was the shaping of the " inner man . ” 44 In ... serving as a source of culture for a broader audience than the privileged population of matriculated undergraduates ...
... served to reinforce the idea that the purpose of college education was the shaping of the " inner man . ” 44 In ... serving as a source of culture for a broader audience than the privileged population of matriculated undergraduates ...
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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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