{"product_id":"reading-up-9781439906675","title":"Reading Up","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe role of cultural elites and journalists in promoting reading as a means of self-improvement and social mobility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This well-researched, thoughtful book adds substantially to our understanding of middlebrow culture. It also has much to teach us about the complexities and variabilities of reading as a social practice. Beautifully written and intellectually deft, Reading Up will interest everyone engaged in the study of American literature and its relationship the larger culture.\" -Janice Radway, Communication Studies, Northwestern University, and author of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste and Middle-Class Desire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction: Cultivating Taste in a Mass-Market World  1  Mr. Mabie Tells What to Read  2  The Compromise of Silas Lapham  3  James for the General Reader  4  Misreading The House of Mirth  5  The Comforts of Romanticism  Epilogue: Reading Up into the Twenty-first Century  Appendix A: The Mabie Canon  Appendix B: \"Novels Descriptive of American Life\" (November 1908)   Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039838503255,"sku":"9781439906675","price":63.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439906675.jpg?v=1750945012","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-up-9781439906675","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}