Reading on the Middle Border The Culture of Print in Late Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa

Name: Reading on the Middle Border The Culture of Print in Late Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa
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ISBN: 9781558492752

ISBN-10: 1558492755

ISBN-13: 9781558492752

Edition: 2001

Authors: Christine Pawley

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: "Noiseless, fleet winged messenger": The Social Meaning of Print



"A hunger for print": Reading and Community



"A foretaste of Heaven": Reading at School



"A benefit and a blessing": The Sage Library



"The greatest blessing of our life": Print and Religion



A "nearer relation of love and friendship": Print, Gender, and Voluntary Associations



A "Window" on the World: Newspapers



"I find my greatest happiness in reading": Individual Readers



Simplified Dewey Table



Periodicals in the Sage Library, 1890s



The Database



Defining a "Normal" Range of Borrowing


Published Works Cited


Index