Before the public library : : reading, community, and identity in the Atlantic world, 1650-1850 /

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
TeilnehmendeR:
Towsey, Mark R. M.,
Roberts, Kyle B.,
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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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction / Mark Towsey and Kyle B. Roberts
  • Empire and Enlightenment
  • 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 José Vieira Couto / Júnia Ferreira Furtado
  • Revolution and Nation Building
  • Uncommon Knowledge: Late Eighteenth-Century American Subscription Library Collections / Cheryl Knott
  • Reading Sheffield: Sheffield Libraries and Book Clubs, 1771–1850 / 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
  • Institutionalisation and Expansion
  • 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 N. Phillips
  • Crafting Respectability: The Politics of Class at the Mechanic Apprentices’ Library of Boston / Lynda K. Yankaskas
  • Public Libraries
  • 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
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography of Secondary Works.

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