What Middletown read
Subtitle: print culture in an American small city
By: Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly
Contributors: Connolly, James J., 1962-
Series: Studies in print culture and the history of the book; Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781625341402; 9781625341419
Subjects: Books and reading; Muncie Public Library; Libraries and community; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Now we are a city" : portrait of a boomtown; title: "A magnificent array of books" : the origins and development of the Muncie Public Library; title: Cosmopolitan trends : print culture and the public library in 1890s Muncie; title: Borrowing patterns : the Muncie Public Library and its patrons; title: "Bread sweet as honey" : reading, education, and the public library; title: Reading and reform : the role of fiction in the civic imagination of Muncie's activist women; title: Schoolboys and social butterflies : profiling Middletown readers; title: Epilogue. Looking backward, looking forward; title: Appendix. The What Middletown read database.