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What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Felsenstein, Frank, Connolly, James J.
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Hardcover. A revealing portrait of reading in the quintessential American town Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBND; 3JJ; GLMB; JFC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 671.
The discovery of a large cache of circulation records from the Muncie, Indiana, Public Library in 2003 offers unprecedented detail about American reading behavior at the turn of the twentieth century. Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly have mined these records to produce an in-depth account of print culture in Muncie, the city featured in the famed “Middletown” studies conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd almost a century ago. Using the data assembled and made public through the What Middletown Read Database (www.bsu.edu/libraries/wmr), a celebrated new resource the authors helped launch, Felsenstein and Connolly analyze the borrowing choices and reading ... Read more
The discovery of a large cache of circulation records from the Muncie, Indiana, Public Library in 2003 offers unprecedented detail about American reading behavior at the turn of the twentieth century. Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly have mined these records to produce an in-depth account of print culture in Muncie, the city featured in the famed “Middletown” studies conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd almost a century ago. Using the data assembled and made public through the What Middletown Read Database (www.bsu.edu/libraries/wmr), a celebrated new resource the authors helped launch, Felsenstein and Connolly analyze the borrowing choices and reading ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341402
SKU
V9781625341402
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About Felsenstein, Frank, Connolly, James J.
Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities and professor of English at Ball State University, USA. He is author of English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World. James J. Connolly is director of the Center for Middletown Studies and Frances Bell Distinguished Professor of History at Ball State University, ... Read more
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