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100	1		_aRadway, Janice A., _d1949-
245	1	2	_aA feeling for books : _bthe Book-of-the-Month Club, literary taste, and middle-class desire / _cJanice A. Radway.
260			_aChapel Hill : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _c1950.
300			_axiii, 424 pages, [8] pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [397]-410) and index.
505	0		_aPt. I. In the Service of the General Reader. Ch. 1. A Certain Book Club Culture. Ch. 2. A Business with a Mission. Ch. 3. The Intelligent Generalist and the Uses of Reading -- Pt. II. On the History of the Middlebrow. Ch. 4. The Struggle over the Book, 1870-1920. Ch. 5. A Modern Selling Machine for Books: Harry Scherman and the Origins of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Ch. 6. Automated Book Distribution and the Negative Option: Agency and Choice in a Standardized World. Ch. 7. The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Professional-Managerial Class and the Exercise of Authority in the Literary Field. Ch. 8. Reading for a New Class: The Judges, the Practical Logic of Book Selection, and the Question of Middlebrow Style -- Pt. III. Books for Professionals. Ch. 9. A Library of Books for the Aspiring Professional: Some Effects of Middlebrow Reading.
520			_aA Feeling for Books is at once a fascinating study of an influential cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation on the love of books and the experience of reading. Deftly melding cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, Janice Radway traces the history of the Book-of-the-Month Club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an organization uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Working, as an ethnographer would, from interviews with club employees and with records left by the club's founders and original judges, Radway reconstructs the standards and ethos as well as the tastes and passions that drove club officials. In the process, she provides an insightful look at the attractions of middlebrow culture and an intriguing account of middle-class Americans' desire to display the tasteful signs of learning and education.
610	2	0	_aBook-of-the-Month Club _xHistory.
650		0	_aBooks and reading _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aBooks and reading _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPopular culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aPopular culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
856	4	2	_3Book review (H-Net) _uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0a7-aa
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