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Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States: About the Author
Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States
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table of contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
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
About the Author
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy L. Blair
is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee.
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