Felsenstein, Frank. <br/><br/>
What Middletown Read :  Print Culture in an American Small City. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (324 pages) 
 - Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series .
 - Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781613763537 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Libraries and community - Indiana - Muncie - History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z1003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>028/.909112650909034