Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1860-1900
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2001
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Author:
Christine Pawley |
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265 pp.
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University of Massachusetts Press
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Amherst, MA
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| ISBN |
9781558492752
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Contents:
Introduction. "Noiseless, fleet winged messenger": The Social Meaning of Print
"Hunger for print": Reading and Community
"Foretaste of Heaven": Reading at School
"Benefit and a blessing": The Sage Library
"Greatest blessing of our life": Print and Religion
"Nearer relation of love and friendship": Print, Gender, and Voluntary Associations
"Window" on the World: Newspapers
"I find my greatest happiness in reading": Individual Readers
App. 1. Simplified Dewey Table
App. 2. Periodicals in the Sage Library, 1890s
App. 3. Database
App. 4. Defining a "Normal" Range of Borrowing
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