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Trudi Abel

Senior Fellow
Duke University Libraries
Box 90185, Durham, NC 27708-0185
166 Rubenstein Library, Box 90185, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


“The ‘Pleasure and Profit’ of Reading: Adolescents and Juvenile Popular Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century”

Chapter · April 28, 2020 Featured Publication Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages Bringing together the latest scholarship from all over the world on topics ranging from reading practices in ancient China to the workings of the twenty-first-century ... ... Cite

Digital Durham

Internet Publication · 2001 For many years scholars have recognized that late nineteenth-century Durham, North Carolina makes an ideal case study for examining emancipation, industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in the context of the New South. "With its tobacco factories, ... Link to item Cite