What Middletown read : print culture in an American small city / / Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly
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Felsenstein Frank
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| Titolo: |
What Middletown read : print culture in an American small city / / Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly
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| Pubblicazione: | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 028/.909112650909034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Books and reading - Indiana - Muncie - History - 19th century |
| Books and reading - Indiana - Muncie - History - 20th century | |
| Libraries and community - Indiana - Muncie - History | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ConnollyJames J. <1962-> |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "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 1890's 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | What Middletown read |
| ISBN: | 1-61376-353-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910796117203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in print culture and the history of the book.