What Middletown read : print culture in an American small city /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Felsenstein, Frank
Otros Autores: Connolly, James J., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]
Temas:
Muncie Public Library > History > 20th century.
Muncie Public Library > History > 19th century.
Muncie Public Library.
1800-1999
Libraries and community > Indiana > Muncie > History.
Books and reading > Indiana > Muncie > History > 20th century.
Books and reading > Indiana > Muncie > History > 19th century.
Relations bibliothèque-collectivité > Indiana > Muncie > Histoire.
Livres et lecture > Indiana > Muncie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Books and reading.
Libraries and community.
Indiana > Muncie.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Now we are a city" : portrait of a boomtown
  • "A magnificent array of books" : the origins and development of the Muncie Public Library
  • Cosmopolitan trends : print culture and the public library in 1890s Muncie
  • Borrowing patterns : the Muncie Public Library and its patrons
  • "Bread sweet as honey" : reading, education, and the public library
  • Reading and reform : the role of fiction in the civic imagination of Muncie's activist women
  • Schoolboys and social butterflies : profiling Middletown readers
  • Epilogue. Looking backward, looking forward
  • Appendix. The What Middletown read database.

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