Review: Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century, by Hugh McIntosh

Amy L. Blair, Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, is the author of Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States (2012). She is coeditor, with James L. Machor, of Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, published by Penn State University Press. She is now working on a book tentatively titled “Tasting and Testing Books: Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and the Modern Middlebrow Reader.”