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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... values and attitudes that shaped some of its major expressions . In picking examples for close examination , however , I faced Fisher's problem : how to select from among the plethora of possible case studies ? Because I am interested ...
... values and attitudes that shaped some of its major expressions . In picking examples for close examination , however , I faced Fisher's problem : how to select from among the plethora of possible case studies ? Because I am interested ...
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... values survived and prospered , albeit in chastened and redirected form , throughout the 1920s , 1930s , and 1940s . Although it is indisputa- ble that the avant - garde flourished after World War I , and equally true that mass ...
... values survived and prospered , albeit in chastened and redirected form , throughout the 1920s , 1930s , and 1940s . Although it is indisputa- ble that the avant - garde flourished after World War I , and equally true that mass ...
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... values , the promise that middlebrow ventures would put more books in the hands of more people is a highly attractive one . Along the same lines , I have been impressed by the allegiance of many of the figures I have investigated to ...
... values , the promise that middlebrow ventures would put more books in the hands of more people is a highly attractive one . Along the same lines , I have been impressed by the allegiance of many of the figures I have investigated to ...
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... values were determined , usually in opposition to the ' factitious ' values thrown up by the market and similar operations of society . " 4 Nineteenth - Century Definitions of Culture After 1800 those two tendencies -- to associate ...
... values were determined , usually in opposition to the ' factitious ' values thrown up by the market and similar operations of society . " 4 Nineteenth - Century Definitions of Culture After 1800 those two tendencies -- to associate ...
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... values through the mechanism of the " higher , " or noncommercial journalism . In that way , Arnoldian critics transmitted and solidified all of the premises that came to animate Hamilton Wright Mabie's Ladies ' Home Journal ...
... values through the mechanism of the " higher , " or noncommercial journalism . In that way , Arnoldian critics transmitted and solidified all of the premises that came to animate Hamilton Wright Mabie's Ladies ' Home Journal ...
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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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