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Title:
The cosmopolitan lyceum : lecture culture and the globe in nineteenth-century America / edited by Tom F. Wright.
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
vi, 250 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Lyceums--United States--History--19th century.
Lectures and lecturing--United States--History--19th century.
Cosmopolitanism--United States--History--19th century.
Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
United States--Relations.
History.
Other Authors:
Wright, Tom F., 1981- editor of compilation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Conclusion: Thomas Augst. Part I. Humanist enterprise in the marketplace of culture / 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.
ISBN:
1625340583 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9781625340580 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
1625340591 (paper : alkaline paper)
9781625340597 (paper : alkaline paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)844729411
LCCN:
2013040191
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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