Reading up middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States

Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States / Amy L. Blair.

Author/creator	Blair, Amy L., 1972-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Temple University Press,
Description	ix, 250 p. 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916--Knowledge and learning Ladies' home journal. American literature--Appreciation --United States --History --20th century. Popular literature--United States --History and criticism. Books and reading--United States --History --20th century. Middle class--Books and reading --United States --History --20th century. Success in literature. Literature and society--United States --History --20th century.

Contents	Introduction: cultivating taste in a mass-market world -- Mr. Mabie tells what to read -- The compromise of Silas Lapham -- James for the general reader -- Misreading The house of Mirth -- The comforts of romanticism -- Epilogue: reading up into the twenty-first century.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliography: p. [211]-240 and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2011015287
ISBN	9781439906675 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781439906682 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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