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Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States: Appendix A: The Mabie Canon

Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
Appendix A: The Mabie Canon
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table of contents
  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Cultivating Taste in a Mass-Market World
  7. 1. Mr. Mabie Tells What to Read
  8. 2. The Compromise of Silas Lapham
  9. 3. James for the General Reader
  10. 4. Misreading The House of Mirth
  11. 5. The Comforts of Romanticism
  12. Epilogue: Reading Up into the Twenty-first Century
  13. Appendix A: The Mabie Canon
  14. Appendix B: “Novels Descriptive of American Life” (November 1908)
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author

APPENDIX A: THE MABIE CANON

Most Frequently Mentioned Single Works

TitleNumber of Mentions
Vanity Fair16
The Rise of Silas Lapham14
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker13
Anna Karenina12
The Bible12
The Virginian12
The Scarlet Letter11
Adam Bede10
David Copperfield10
The Mill on the Floss10
The Choir Invisible9
The Marble Faun9
Treasure Island9
Uncle Tom’s Cabin9
The Grandissimes8
Henry Esmond8
In Memoriam8
Ivanhoe8
Lady Baltimore8
The Masquerader8
Old Creole Days8
The Spy8
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7
The House of Mirth7
The House of the Seven Gables7
Red Rock7
Robinson Crusoe7
A Tale of Two Cities7

Most Frequently Mentioned Authors

AuthorNumber of Mentions
Ralph Waldo Emerson30
William Shakespeare30
Henry Van Dyke30
William Makepeace Thackeray26
William Dean Howells24
Nathaniel Hawthorne23
Thomas Carlyle20
F. Marion Crawford19
Edgar Allan Poe19
Oliver Wendell Holmes18
Thomas Nelson Page18
Edith Wharton18
James Lane Allen17
Henry James17
Alfred Lord Tennyson17
Charles Dickens16
Sarah Orne Jewett16
Sir Walter Scott16
Mrs. Humphry Ward16
Kate Douglas Wiggin16
Owen Wister16
Thomas Bailey Aldrich15
Margaret Deland15
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15
S. Weir Mitchell15
George E. Woodberry15
George Eliot14
Ellen Glasgow14
F. Hopkinson Smith14
James Fenimore Cooper13
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman13
Rudyard Kipling13
Matthew Arnold12
Washington Irving12
John Greenleaf Whittier12
George Washington Cable11
John Fox Jr.10
Hamlin Garland10
Mark Twain10
Honoré de Balzac9
William Frend De Morgan9
John Fiske9
Thomas Hardy9
Booth Tarkington9

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