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Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Pr
Publication date August 1, 1997
Pages 424
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780807823576
ISBN-10 0807823570
Dimensions 1.50 by 6.50 by 10 in.
Weight 1.90 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $39.95
Other format details university press
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Summary
Ranging from cultural history to literary criticism to personal reflection, the author examines the Book-of-the-Month Club's role in forming the literary taste and the desires of the middle class, as well as her own. UP. (view table of contents)
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice Radway traces the history of the famous mail-order book club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an enterprise uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Framing her historical narrative with writing of a more personal sort, Radway reflects on the contemporary role of the Book-of-the-Month Club in American cultural history and in her own life. Her detailed account of the standards and practices employed by the club's in-house editors is also an absorbing story of her interactions with those editors. Examining her experiences as a fourteen-year-old reader of the club's selections and, later, as a professor of literature, she offers a series of rigorously analytical yet deeply personal readings of such beloved novels as Marjorie Morningstar and To Kill a Mockingbird. Rich and rewarding, this book will captivate and delight anyone who is interested in the history of books and in the personal and transformative experience of reading.



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Hardcover
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from Univ of North Carolina Pr (August 1, 1997); titled "Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire"
9780807823576 | details & prices | 424 pages | 6.50 × 10.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Traces the history of the Book-of-the-Month Club and reconstructs the standards, ethos, tastes, and passions that drove club officials
Paperback
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from Univ of North Carolina Pr (August 1, 1999)
9780807848302 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $31.95
About: Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading.

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