What Middletown read print culture in an American small city
"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 --...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Amherst, Mass. u.a.
University of Massachusetts Press
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in print culture and the history of the book
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 304 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9781625341419 978-1-62534-141-9 9781625341402 978-1-62534-140-2 |