Reading up: middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States

Abstract

Acknowledgments Introduction: Cultivating Taste in a Mass-Market World 1 Mr. Mabie Tells What to Read 2 The Compromise of Silas Lapham 3 James for the General Reader 4 Misreading The House of Mirth 5 The Comforts of Romanticism Epilogue: Reading Up into the Twenty-first Century Appendix A: The Mabie Canon Appendix B: Novels Descriptive of American Life (November 1908) Notes Bibliography Index