- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- Series Statement
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book
- Uniform Title
- What Middletown Read (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- What Middletown Read (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0001583686
- Author
Felsenstein, Frank.
- Title
What Middletown Read [electronic resource] : Print Culture in an American Small City / Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly.
- Imprint
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Connolly, James J., 1962-
Project Muse.
- LCCN
2014050133