Cultura escrita e vida urbana: gabinetes de leitura na região norte do Ceará (1877-1919)

Abstract

Cabinets reading emerged in the cities and towns of northern Ceará from the second half of the century, but it was in the second decade of the twentieth time they reached their greatest development. This paper attempts to survey their trajectories, identifying your goals, the difficulties faced and how they were received by the companies concerned. It also seeks to unravel the mode of reading proposed by these institutions and built around this practice, from its constitution as places of the book, discussing its place within a communication network built on makes the circulation of printed speech by region.