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Author : New York Society Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433069121378
Author : New York Society Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023477527
Author : Tom Glynn
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823262656
On May 11, 1911, the New York Public Library opened its “marble palace for book lovers” on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. This was the city’s first public library in the modern sense, a tax-supported, circulating collection free to every citizen. Since before the Revolution, however, New York’s reading publics had access to a range of “public libraries” as the term was understood by contemporaries. In its most basic sense a public library in the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries simply meant a shared collection of books that was available to the general public and promoted the public good. From the founding in 1754 of the New York Society Library up to 1911, public libraries took a variety of forms. Some of them were free, charitable institutions, while others required a membership or an annual subscription. Some, such as the Biblical Library of the American Bible Society, were highly specialized; others, like the Astor Library, developed extensive, inclusive collections. What all the public libraries of this period had in common, at least ostensibly, was the conviction that good books helped ensure a productive, virtuous, orderly republic—that good reading promoted the public good. Tom Glynn’s vivid, deeply researched history of New York City’s public libraries over the course of more than a century and a half illuminates how the public and private functions of reading changed over time and how shared collections of books could serve both public and private ends. Reading Publics examines how books and reading helped construct social identities and how print functioned within and across groups, including but not limited to socioeconomic classes. The author offers an accessible while scholarly exploration of how republican and liberal values, shifting understandings of “public” and “private,” and the debate over fiction influenced the development and character of New York City’s public libraries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading Publics is an important contribution to the social and cultural history of New York City that firmly places the city’s early public libraries within the history of reading and print culture in the United States.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBR:KBR0000092656
Author : Library company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555057437
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433075914709
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z174873206
Author : Boston Public Library. Barton Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : NYPL:33433069125312
Author : Boston Public Library. Barton Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNKKZZ
Author : Joseph Sabin,Wilberforce Eames,Robert William Glenroie Vail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : America
ISBN : NLS:V000012609
Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081687943
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082983787
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455977
Author : New York State Library (Albany).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000081157
Author : Ronald J. Zboray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195344905
This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometimes defining the limits of the antebellum reading public. A Fictive People explodes two notions that are commonplace in cultural histories of the nineteenth century: first, that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and, second, that there was a body of nineteenth-century literature that reflected a "nation of readers." Zboray shows that the output of the press was so diverse and the public so indiscriminate in what it would read that we must rethink these conclusions. The essential elements for the rise of publishing turn out not to be the usual suspects of rising literacy and increased schooling. Zboray turns our attention to the railroad as well as private letter writing to see the creation of a national taste for literature. He points out the ambiguous role of the nineteenth-century school in encouraging reading and convincingly demonstrates that we must look more deeply to see why the nation turned to literature. He uses such data as sales figures and library borrowing to reveal that women read as widely as men and that the regional breakdown of sales focused the power of print.
