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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemisphere
Lara Atkin; Sarah Comyn; Porscha Fermanis; Nathan Garvey
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Übersicht
Verlag | : | Springer International Publishing |
Buchreihe | : | New Directions in Book History |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Erschienen | : | 03. 07. 2019 |
Einband | : | Gebunden |
Höhe | : | 210 mm |
Breite | : | 148 mm |
ISBN | : | 9783030204259 |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Autorinformation
Lara Atkin is a European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Sarah Comyn is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Porscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded ‘SouthHem’ project.
Nathan Garvey is a European Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction.- 2. From Community to Public Libraries: Liberalism, Education, and Self-Government.- 3. Cultivating Public Readers: Citizens, Classes, and Types.- 4. ‘A mob of light readers’: Holdings, Genre Proportions, and Modes of Reading.- 5. Knowing the ‘Native Mind’: Ethnological and Philological Collections.- 6. Conclusion.