What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City
Frank Felsenstein, "What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City "
English | ISBN: 1625341415 | 2015 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1625341415 | 2015 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
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.
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