Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States by Amy Blair

Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

Amy Blair

250 pages • first pub 2011 (view editions)

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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 ...

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