{"product_id":"a-feeling-for-books-the-book-of-the-month-club-literary-taste-and-middle-class-desire-9780807848302","title":"A Feeling for Books: The Book-Of-The-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Janice a. Radway\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Books \u0026amp; Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, \u003ci\u003eA Feeling for Books\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. 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. 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. Her detailed account of the standards and practices employed by the club's in-house editors is also an absorbing story of her interactions with those editors. Examining her experiences as a fourteen-year-old reader of the club's selections and, later, as a professor of literature, she offers a series of rigorously analytical yet deeply personal readings of such beloved novels as \u003ci\u003eMarjorie Morningstar\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e. Rich and rewarding, this book will captivate and delight anyone who is interested in the history of books and in the personal and transformative experience of reading.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591287521431,"sku":"9780807848302","price":4772.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807848302.webp?v=1774972262","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-feeling-for-books-the-book-of-the-month-club-literary-taste-and-middle-class-desire-9780807848302","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}