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The Making of Middlebrow Culture
The Making of Middlebrow Culture, The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, outline volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive an, The Making of Middlebrow Culture has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • The Making of Middlebrow Culture
  • Written by author Joan Shelley Rubin
  • Published by University of North Carolina Press, The, March 1992
  • The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive an
  • "Publishers WeeklyRubin's ( Constance Rourke and American Culture ) discussion of American culture from the 1920s through the 1940s is less revealing of middlebrow values and attitudes than of what the people who dispensed packaged culture
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1Self, Culture, and Self-Culture in America1
Ch. 2The "Higher Journalism" Realigned: Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, and Books34
Ch. 3Why Do You Disappoint Yourself?: The Early History of the Book-of-the-Month Club93
Ch. 4Classics and Commercials: John Erskine and "Great Books,"148
Ch. 5Merchant of Light: Will Durant and the Vogue of the "Outline,"209
Ch. 6Information, Please!: Book Programs on Commercial Radio266
Notes331
Bibliography373
Index405
Permissions415


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