The Humanities Research Colloquium will host a book launch for Dr. Amy Blair, associate professor of English in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 4 p.m. in Cudahy 118. All are welcome.
The colloquium will celebrate and discuss Blair’s new book, “Tasting and Testing Books: ‘Good Housekeeping,’ Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading,” which was recently published in the Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series at the University of Massachusetts Press.
The book takes up timely questions about reading, reviewing, gender, class and print culture through a close analysis of Emily Newell Blair’s reading advice column, which appeared in “Good Housekeeping” magazine between 1926 and 1934. Dr. Blair argues that the consumer-first message of “Good Housekeeping” permeated the column and “validated a new attitude of proudly middlebrow pleasure reading in the mid-twentieth century.”
For questions about the event or to join virtually via Teams, contact Dr. Melissa Ganz, associate professor of English. More information about the colloquium can be found online.
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