Author: Heather Murray
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802036339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The forerunner of today's book clubs, nineteenth-century literary societies provided a lively social and intellectual forum where people could gather and discuss books, cultural affairs, and current events. In Come bright Improvement!, Heather Murray explores the literary societies of Ontario between 1820 and 1900 - some of which are still in existence today - and examines the extent to which they mirrored or challenged contemporary social, political, and intellectual trends. Based on a wealth of original research with periodicals and local archival materials, Murray traces the evolution from early political and debating clubs to more dedicated literary and cultural societies, such as Shakespeare or Browning groups. Many people formed literary societies, including workers, women, Black fugitives, and members of religious denominations such as Quakers and Methodists. Murray studies the societies in detail, exploring everything from the reading materials they favoured to the other kinds of social and civic activities in which they participated. Of additional interest to scholars of book history if the book's resource guide, which records the location, history, and archival deposits of several hundred societies. A first in the study of the book club phenomenon, Come, bright Improvement! is a wonderful introduction to nineteenth-century Ontario, the history of book studies, and the history of reading.
Come, Bright Improvement!
Author: Heather Murray
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802036339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The forerunner of today's book clubs, nineteenth-century literary societies provided a lively social and intellectual forum where people could gather and discuss books, cultural affairs, and current events. In Come bright Improvement!, Heather Murray explores the literary societies of Ontario between 1820 and 1900 - some of which are still in existence today - and examines the extent to which they mirrored or challenged contemporary social, political, and intellectual trends. Based on a wealth of original research with periodicals and local archival materials, Murray traces the evolution from early political and debating clubs to more dedicated literary and cultural societies, such as Shakespeare or Browning groups. Many people formed literary societies, including workers, women, Black fugitives, and members of religious denominations such as Quakers and Methodists. Murray studies the societies in detail, exploring everything from the reading materials they favoured to the other kinds of social and civic activities in which they participated. Of additional interest to scholars of book history if the book's resource guide, which records the location, history, and archival deposits of several hundred societies. A first in the study of the book club phenomenon, Come, bright Improvement! is a wonderful introduction to nineteenth-century Ontario, the history of book studies, and the history of reading.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802036339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The forerunner of today's book clubs, nineteenth-century literary societies provided a lively social and intellectual forum where people could gather and discuss books, cultural affairs, and current events. In Come bright Improvement!, Heather Murray explores the literary societies of Ontario between 1820 and 1900 - some of which are still in existence today - and examines the extent to which they mirrored or challenged contemporary social, political, and intellectual trends. Based on a wealth of original research with periodicals and local archival materials, Murray traces the evolution from early political and debating clubs to more dedicated literary and cultural societies, such as Shakespeare or Browning groups. Many people formed literary societies, including workers, women, Black fugitives, and members of religious denominations such as Quakers and Methodists. Murray studies the societies in detail, exploring everything from the reading materials they favoured to the other kinds of social and civic activities in which they participated. Of additional interest to scholars of book history if the book's resource guide, which records the location, history, and archival deposits of several hundred societies. A first in the study of the book club phenomenon, Come, bright Improvement! is a wonderful introduction to nineteenth-century Ontario, the history of book studies, and the history of reading.
Milestone Moods and Memories
Author: Donald McCaig
Publisher:
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Category : Blind tooled bindings
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Blind tooled bindings
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. A New and Improved Edition. With a Portrait, Etc
Author: Thomas Campbell
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Dow's Patent Sermons
Author: Dow (Jr.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The Every-day Book and Table Book
Author: William Hone
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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American Mechanics' Magazine
Author:
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
History of the Book in Canada: Beginnings to 1840
Author: History of the Book in Canada Project
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802089434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Impressive in its scope and depth of scholarship, this first volume of the History of the Book in Canada is a landmark in the chronicle of writing, publishing, bookselling, and reading in Canada.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802089434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Impressive in its scope and depth of scholarship, this first volume of the History of the Book in Canada is a landmark in the chronicle of writing, publishing, bookselling, and reading in Canada.
The Farmer's Magazine
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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British Farmer's Magazine
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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The Selangor Journal
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Category : Selangor (Malaysia)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Publisher:
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Category : Selangor (Malaysia)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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