The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1992
First published:	March 1992
Authors:	Joan Shelley Rubin
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	438
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-4354-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General
LSN:	0-8078-4354-7
Barcode:	9780807843543

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