Framing her historical narrative with writing of a more personal sort, Radway reflects on the contemporary role of the Book-of-the-Month Club in American cultural history and in her own life. Janice Radway traces the history of the famous mail-order book club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an enterprise uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. About the Book Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire Book Synopsis Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Clubs influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading.
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