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A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
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Hardcover
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
About: Traces the history of the Book-of-the-Month Club and reconstructs the standards, ethos, tastes, and passions that drove club officials
Paperback
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.
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.