Before the Public Library

Before the Public Library PDF

Author: Mark Towsey

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 9004348670

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Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.

Reading the Scottish Enlightenment

Reading the Scottish Enlightenment PDF

Author: Mark Towsey

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9004193510

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Drawing on a range of methodologies associated with the history of reading, this book explores the reception of the Scottish Enlightenment, assessing the impact that major texts had on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of contemporary readers.