A feeling for books : the Book-of-the-Month Club, literary taste, and middle-class desire /
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. Ja...
| Основен автор: | Radway, Janice A., 1949- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭1997.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13971 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Feeling for books. |
| Резюме: |
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 th. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-410) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0807863971 9780807863978 |