The Making of Middlebrow Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0807843547
- ISBN-13
- 9780807843543
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-11-09
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Joan Shelley Rubin
Description
Examines the growth of book clubs, reading groups, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century to chronicle the rise of middlebrow culture
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