DIGIRENT - Culture Club: The Curious History of the Boston Athenaeum
Katherine Wolff
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Culture Club: The Curious Katherine Wolff epub Culture Club: The Curious Katherine Wolff pdf download Culture Club: The Curious Katherine Wolff pdf file Culture Club: The Curious Katherine Wolff audiobook Culture Club: The Curious Katherine Wolff book review Culture Club: The Curious Katherine Wolff summary | #383270 in Books | University of Massachusetts Press | 2009-09-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.22 x.58 x6.32l,.0 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| College-level American history and literary collections need this|By Midwest Book Review|CULTURE CLUB: THE CURIOUS HISTORY OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM tells of a literary club called the Anthology Society and its successor, the Boston Athenaeum, that began as a repository for books and works of art but grew to attract major American literary figures. More than a library, it served||"A well-researched, engagingly written book. It moves beyond the usual class-based interpretation of elite Boston institutions to consider other sources of motivation and influence and other historical issues."―Tamara Plakins Thornton, author of Cultivati
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. At first a repository for books, to which works of art were later added, the Athenaeum attracted over time a following that included such literary luminaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James.
Yet from the outset, Katherine Wolff shows, the Boston Athenaeum was more than a library;...
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