TY - BOOK ID - 68759998 TI - Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States PY - 2012 SN - 9781439906675 143990667X 9781439906682 1439906688 9781592134502 1592134505 9781592134519 1592134513 9786613319692 1283319691 1439906696 PB - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Popular literature KW - Books and reading KW - Middle class KW - Success in literature. KW - Literature and society KW - Literatur. KW - Englisch. KW - Leser. KW - Leserin. KW - Bestseller. KW - Books and reading. KW - Literature. KW - Literature and society. KW - Popular literature. KW - Appreciation KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Appreciation. KW - Mabie, Hamilton Wright, KW - Knowledge KW - Ladies' home journal. KW - 1900-1999. KW - USA. KW - United States. KW - History and criticism. KW - Bourgeoisie KW - Commons (Social order) KW - Middle classes KW - Social classes KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Social conditions KW - Mabie, Hamilton W. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68759998 AB - A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up." Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility. Combining methodologies from the history of the book and the history of reading, to mass-cultural studies, reader-response criticism, reception studies, and formalist literary analysis, Blair shows how such critics influenced the choices of striving readers and popularized some elite writers.