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What Middletown Read - Print Culture in an American Small City (Hardcover)
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What Middletown Read - Print Culture in an American Small City (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
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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 culture of social groups and individuals. What
Middletown Read is much more than a statistical study. Felsenstein
and Connolly dig into diaries, meeting minutes, newspaper reports,
and local histories to trace the library's development in relation
to the city's cosmopolitan aspirations, to profile individual
readers, and to explore such topics as the relationship between
children's reading and their schooling and what books were
discussed by local women's clubs. The authors situate borrowing
patterns and reading behaviour within the contexts of a rapidly
growing, culturally ambitious small city, an evolving public
library, an expanding market for print, and the broad social
changes that accompanied industrialization in the United States.
The result is a rich, revealing portrait of the place of reading in
an emblematic American community.
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