1. 16 She has a more middlebrow talent than his, and therefore seems less inclined toward introspection and reiteration.

2. For more on the Bmoc, see Janice Radway, "The Scandal of the Middlebrow: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Class Fracture, and Cultural Authority," South Atlantic Quarterly 89 (fall 1990): 703-36; Radway, "The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader," in Reading in America: Literature and Social History, Cathy N.