Reading on the Middle Border

by Pawley, Christine

• ISBN13: 9781558492752
• ISBN10: 1558492755
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Author Biography

Christine Pawley teaches at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction ``Noiseless, fleet winged messenger'': The Social Meaning of Print	1	(8)
``A hunger for print'': Reading and Community	9	(30)
``A foretaste of Heaven'': Reading at School	39	(22)
``A benefit and a blessing'': The Sage Library	61	(56)
``The greatest blessing of our life'': Print and Religion	117	(20)
A ``nearer relation of love and friendship'': Print, Gender, and Voluntary Associations	137	(32)
A ``Windows'' on the World: Newspapers	169	(33)
``I find my greates happiness in reading'': Individual Readers	202	(33)
Appendixes
1. Simplified Dewey Table	227	(2)
2. Periodicals in the Sage Library, 1890s	229	(1)
3. The Database	230	(2)
4. Defining a ``Normal'' Range of Borrowing	232	(3)
Published Works Cited	235	(10)
Index	245