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Author Felsenstein, Frank.

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

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
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Subject Muncie Public Library -- History -- 20th century.
Muncie Public Library.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Muncie Public Library -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Libraries and community -- Indiana -- Muncie -- History.
Libraries and community.
Indiana -- Muncie.
Books and reading -- Indiana -- Muncie -- History -- 20th century.
Books and reading.
Books and reading -- Indiana -- Muncie -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Connolly, James J., 1962-
Other Form: Print version: Felsenstein, Frank. What Middletown read. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015] (DLC) 2014050133
ISBN 9781613763537 (electronic book)
1613763530 (electronic book)
9781625341402 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781625341419 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1625341407