Title What Middletown read : print culture in an American small city / Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Muncie Public Library -- History -- 20th century Muncie Public Library -- History -- 19th century SUBJECT Muncie Public Library fast Subject Libraries and community -- Indiana -- Muncie -- History Books and reading -- Indiana -- Muncie -- History -- 20th century Books and reading -- Indiana -- Muncie -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. Books and reading Libraries and community Indiana -- Muncie Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Connolly, James J., 1962- ISBN 9781613763537 1613763530

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