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The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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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
analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow
culture, and the values encompassed by it.
Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the
middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the
beginnings of "great books" programs; the creation of the "New York
Herald Tribune"'s book-review section; the popularity of such works
as Will Durant's "The Story of Philosophy"; and the emergence of
literary radio programs. She also investigates the lives and
expectations of the individuals who shaped these middlebrow
institutions--such figures as Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van
Doren, Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Erskine,
William Lyon Phelps, Alexander Woollcott, and Clifton
Fadiman.
Moreover, as she pursues the significance of these cultural
intermediaries who connected elites and the masses by interpreting
ideas to the public, Rubin forces a reconsideration of the boundary
between high culture and popular sensibility.
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