What Middletown Read : Print Culture in an American Small City /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Felsenstein, Frank
Other Authors: Connolly, James J., 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Muncie Public Library.
Muncie Public Library > History > 19th century.
Muncie Public Library > History > 20th century.
General.
Bibliography - General.
Libraries and community.
Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Livres et lecture > Indiana > Muncie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Relations bibliotheque-collectivite > Indiana > Muncie > Histoire.
Books and reading > Indiana > Muncie > History > 19th century.
Books and reading > Indiana > Muncie > History > 20th century.
Libraries and community > Indiana > Muncie > History.
Indiana > Muncie.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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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