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Before the public library reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 / edited by Mark Towsey, Kyle B. Roberts.
| Other author | Towsey, Mark R. M. |
| Other author | Roberts, Kyle B. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 61. The handpress world ; volume 46 |
| Contents | Building Religious Communities with Books: the Quaker and Anglican Transatlantic Libraries, 1650-1710 / Louisiane Ferlier -- Poetry and Civic Urbanism in the Coffee-house Library in the Mid-eighteenth Century / Markman Ellis -- Of Mudfish, Harpsichords and Books: Libraries and Community in Eighteenth-century Jamaica / April G. Shelford -- Affleck Generations: the Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck,1695-1825 / James J. Caudle -- Sedition, Revolution and Libertinism In Eighteenth-century Brazil: the Library Of Naturalist Jose Vieira Couto / Junia Ferreira Furtado -- Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-century American Subscription Library Collections / Cheryl Knott -- Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771-1850 / Sue Roe and Loveday Herridge -- Challenging Institutional Ambitions: the Practice of Book Exchanges at the New York Society Library, 1789-1795 / Rob Koehler -- A "Quaint Corner" of the Reading Nation: Romantic Readerships in Rural Perthshire, 1780-1830 / Katie Halsey -- From Private Devotion to "Public" Education: Northern Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Benefactors / Rachel Eckersley -- The Foundation of Plymouth Public Library: Cultural Status, Philanthropy and Expanding Readerships, 1810-1825 / Annika Bautz -- Reading on the Edge of the Atlantic: the Easton Library Company / Christopher Phillips -- Crafting Respectability: the Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices' Library of Boston / Lynda K. Yankaskas -- Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public Libraries / Tom Glynn -- From Voluntary to State Action: Samuel Smiles, James Silk Buckingham and the Rise of the Public Library Movement in Britain / Alistair Black. |
| Abstract | "Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important - and largely unrecognized - role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Before the public library Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004348660 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017054687 |
| ISBN | 9789004348677 (E-book) |
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