The Library that Disappeared
The Rio de Janeiro British Subscription Library 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20084604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nelson Schapochnik (0000-0001-7226-4812, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 87-117 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315096179-6 |
| OpenAlex | W2905532534 |
| ISBN | 9781315096179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Rio de Janeiro British Subscription Library was one of the new spaces for 'sociability' and interaction, and it helped forge a certain identity among the British community by means of a literary culture. The establishment of the British Subscription Library followed the pattern evident in other foreign communities that settled in Rio de Janeiro in the first decades of the nineteenth century. In promoting a community life where literary culture was sacrosanct, these institutions helped to lessen the feeling of being in exile and at the same time provided information, knowledge and pleasure to their members. The gradual disappearance of news, notes and references about the British Subscription Library in the Fluminense press anticipated the brutal termination of that project for accumulating books and knowledge over a period of several decades, during which it had added to the cultural lives of the Anglophone community in Rio de Janeiro by providing a great deal of pleasure and learning
Geography · Library science · American Literature and Humor Studies · Computer Science · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Library Science and Administration
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |