Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911
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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911
Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2015
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-426) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911 Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum New York Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries Chapter 6: "Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics Works Cited Notes
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