Before the public library : : reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 / / edited by Mark Towsey, Kyle B. Roberts.
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 w...
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Superior document: | Library of the Written Word, Volume 61 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018. ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Library of the written word ;
Volume 61. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 46. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (415 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Other title: | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Empire and Enlightenment -- Building Religious Communities with Books: The Quaker and Anglican Transatlantic Libraries, 1650–1710 / Poetry and Civic Urbanism in the Coffee-House Library in the Mid-Eighteenth Century / Of Mudfish, Harpsichords and Books: Libraries and Community in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica / Affleck Generations: The Libraries of the Boswells of Auchinleck, 1695–1825 / Sedition, Revolution and Libertinism in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: The Library of Naturalist José Vieira Couto / Revolution and Nation Building -- Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-Century American Subscription Library Collections / Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771–1850 / Challenging Institutional Ambitions: The Practice of Book Exchanges at the New York Society Library, 1789–1795 / A “Quaint Corner” of the Reading Nation: Romantic Readerships in Rural Perthshire, 1780–1830 / Institutionalisation and Expansion -- From Private Devotion to “Public” Education: Northern Dissenting Academy Libraries and Their Benefactors / The Foundation of Plymouth Public Library: Cultural Status, Philanthropy and Expanding Readerships, 1810–1825 / Reading on the Edge of the Atlantic: The Easton Library Company / Crafting Respectability: The Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices’ Library of Boston / Public Libraries -- Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public Libraries / From Voluntary to State Action: Samuel Smiles, James Silk Buckingham and the Rise of the Public Library Movement in Britain / Back Matter -- Bibliography of Secondary Works. |
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Summary: | 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. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9004348670 |
ISSN: | 1874-4834 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Mark Towsey, Kyle B. Roberts. |