What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City

by Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly

The discovery of a large cache of circulation records from the Muncie, Indiana, Public Library in 2003 offers unprecedented detail about American reading behavior at the turn of the twentieth century. Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly have mined these records to produce an in-depth account of print culture in Muncie, the city featured in the famed "Middletown" studies conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd almost a century ago. Using the data...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625341415
• ISBN13: 9781625341419
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"