Making Society Out of Books: The New York Mercantile Library and the Enterprise of Reading

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Year of Publication
2003
Author
Author: Thomas Augst
Editor: Thomas Augst
Book Title
The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
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Pagination
158-206
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
City
Chicago, IL
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Subsections are: Circulating Libraries and the Business of Books; Reading and Breeding for the Profession; and The Liberty of Intellect and the Taste for Fiction