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Culture Club The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum / Katherine Wolff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolff, Katherine, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston Athenaeum--History.
- Boston Athenaeum.
- Subscription libraries--Massachusetts--Boston--History.
- Subscription libraries.
- Boston (Mass.)--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 204 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Founded in 1807, the successor to a literary club called the Anthology Society, the Boston Athenaeum occupies an important place in the early history of American intellectual life.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Boston's conflicted elite
- The collector
- Sweet are the fruits of letters
- A woman framed
- Ornament for the city
- The color of gentility
- Pamphlet war
- Conclusion: Ex libris.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781613761779
- 1613761775
- OCLC:
- 743488897
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