TY - SER
AU - Alice Crawford
CY - Princeton, NJ
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Introduction / Alice Crawford&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 1. The Library through Time.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Adventures in ancient Greek and Roman libraries / Edith Hall </li><li>The image of the medieval library / Richard Gameson </li><li>The Renaissance library and the challenge of print / Andrew Pettegree </li><li>From printing shop to bookshelves: how books began the journey to Enlightenment libraries / Robert Darnton </li><li>"The advantages of literature": the subscription library in Georgian Britain / David Allan </li><li>Literature and the library in the nineteenth century / John Sutherland&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 2. The Library in Imagination.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The library in fiction / Marina Warner </li><li>The library in poetry / Robert Crawford </li><li>The library in film: order and mystery / Laura Marcus&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Part 3. The Library Now and in the Future.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>"Casting and gathering": libraries, archives, and the modern writer / Stephen Enniss </li><li>Meanings of the library today / John P. Wilkin </li><li>The modern library and global democracy / James H. Billington</li></ul>
PB - Princeton University Press
PP - Princeton, NJ
PY - 2015
SN - 978-691-16639-1
EP - 328 pp.
TI - The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History
ER -