PAWLEY, Christine.

Reading on the Middle Border.

(Boston): Univ of Mass Press, (2001),

First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 265 pp. Univ of Mass Press, Very fine copy. Item #12008

Before 1876, the history of American reading practices focused on middle- class white people living in northeastern cities. This book shifts the focus to the midwest and broadens the base of economic classes studied. A major section of her study explores the use of the public library by " ordinary" Americans.

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