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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book SeriesPublisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (324 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613763537
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What Middletown ReadDDC classification:
  • 028/.909112650909034
LOC classification:
  • Z1003
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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