What Middletown Read : Print Culture in an American Small City.
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- 9781613763537
- 028/.909112650909034
- Z1003
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: A City and its Library -- "Now We Are a City": Portrait of a Boomtown -- 2. "A Magnificent Array of Books": The Origins and Development of the Muncie Public Library -- 3. Cosmopolitan Trends: Print Culture and the Public Library in 1890s Muncie -- Part II: Reading Experiences -- 4. Borrowing Patterns: The Muncie Public Library and its Patrons -- 5. "Bread Sweet as Honey": Reading, Education, and the Public Library -- 6. Reading and Reform: The Role of Fiction in the Civic Imagination of Muncie's Activist Women -- 7. Schoolboys and Social Butterflies: Profiling Middletown Readers -- Epilogue. Looking Backward, Looking Forward -- Appendix. The What Middletown Read Database -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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