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The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 152
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 152
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This book analyses political reading and the subscription library to examine the social, political and intellectual fabric of Georgian Britain between the French Revolution in 1789 and the passage of the first Reform Act in 1832. Combining methodological elements from political and reading history, this book uses extensive borrowing and administrative records, bibliometric data, correspondence, diaries, and electoral and associational records from archives across the Anglophone Atlantic. Two libraries, the Bristol Library Society and the Leighton Library, Dunblane, and their communities are examined in detail to demonstrate the political importance of an institution which was ubiquitous within Georgian society.
Joshua J. Smith was most recently a Lecturer at the University of Stirling. His research examines politics, reading and libraries in the Atlantic world during the Age of Revolutions (1776-1850).
Academic market (political, social, intellectual and cultural historians, historians of print/the book, English and Scottish literature scholars), libraries, local interest (Bristol, Perthshire, Stirlingshire). Keywords: Abolition, Anxiety, Association, Associational Culture, Baillie, Bristol, Church of Scotland, Club, Dunblane, Election, French Revolution, Georgian, Gloucestershire, Perthshire, Moderate, Moderatism, Reform, Riots, Robert Leighton, Social Politics, Society, Stirlingshire, Vote, Voter.