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Cover -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Literature And Institutions -- Chapter 1 Knowledge Exchange In The Seventeenth Century: From The Third University To The Royal Society -- Chapter 2 'supporting Mutual Benevolence': Libraries, Civic Benefaction, And The Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1709-1755 -- Chapter 3 Institutions Without Addresses -- Chapter 4 Eighteenth-century Musenhof Courts As Bridges And Brokers For Cultural Networks And Social Reform -- Chapter 5 Becoming Institutional: The Case Of The Anacreontic Society -- Chapter 6 Circulating Libraries As Institutional Creators Of Genres -- Chapter 7 Lecturing Networks And Cultural Institutions, 1740-1830 -- Chapter 8 Catalogues As Instituting Genres Of The Nineteenth-century Museum: The Two Hunterians -- Chapter 9 Charles Lamb And The British Museum As An Institution Of Literature -- Chapter 10 A Disruptive And Dangerous Education And The Wealth Of The Nation: The Early Mechanics' Institutes -- Chapter 11 'the Ladies' Contribution': Women And The Mechanics' Institute On The Goldfields Of Victoria -- Chapter 12 '[l]etters Must Increase': Reading And Writing The Post Office As A Literary Institution -- Chapter 13 Networks, Nodes, And Beacons: Cultural Institutions In Nineteenth-century Southeast Asia -- Chapter 14 The Book As Medium -- Index. Edited By Jon Mee, Matthew Sangster. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Cambridge Available Via World Wide Web.