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What Middletown read : print culture in an American small city
- Title
- What Middletown read : print culture in an American small city / Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly.
- Author
- Felsenstein, Frank.
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-7008 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Connolly, James J., 1962-
- Description
- xiii, 304 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book
- Uniform Title
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.
- Contents
- "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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7008
- ISBN
- 9781625341402
- 1625341407
- 9781625341419
- 1625341415
- LCCN
- 2014050133
- 40025045749
- OCLC
- 898222274
- Author
- Felsenstein, Frank.
- Title
- What Middletown read : print culture in an American small city / Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly.
- Publisher
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in print culture and the history of the bookStudies in print culture and the history of the book.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.
- Added Author
- Connolly, James J., 1962-
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025045749
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7008