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The cosmopolitan lyceum : lecture culture and the globe in nineteenth-century America / edited by Tom F. Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lyceums--United States--History--19th century.
- Lyceums.
- Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century.
- Lectures and lecturing.
- Cosmopolitanism--United States--History--19th century.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- United States.
- United States--Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From the 1830s to the 1900s, a circuit of lecture halls known as the "lyceum movement" flourished across the United States.At its peak, up to a million people a week regularly attended talks in local venues, captivated by the words of visiting orators who spoke on an extensive range of topics.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Tom F. Wright
- Part I. Cultivating cosmopolitanism
- How cosmopolitan was the lyceum, anyway? / Angela G. Ray
- Women thinking : the international popular lecture and its audience in antebellum New England / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
- Bringing music to the lyceumites : the bureaus and the transformation of lyceum entertainment / Sara Lampert
- Part II. Cosmopolitan authorship
- Mr. Emerson's playful lyceum : polyvocal promotion on the lecture circuit / Robert Arbour
- With press and paddle : William H.H. Murray's "Adirondack" lectures and the making of a wilderness guide / Virginia Garnett
- William James's "True American theory" : the varieties of religious experience and transatlantic intellectual culture / Paul Stob
- Part III. Internationalism or imperialism?
- "Barnum is undone in his own province" : science, race, and entertainment in the lectures of George Robins Gliddon / Susan Branson
- The lyceum as contact zone : Bayard Taylor's lectures on foreign travel / Peter Gibian
- The peripatetic career of Wherahiko Rawei : Maori culture on the global Chautauqua circuit, 1893-1927 / Evan Roberts
- Conclusion: Cosmopolitan medium
- Humanist enterprise in the marketplace of culture / Thomas Augst
- About the contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-289-5
- OCLC:
- 879285857
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