The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States /
Ray, Angela G.
East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-349) and index.
From mutual education to celebrity entertainment -- Modeling an ideal in Josiah Holbrook's Family lyceum, 1832-1833 -- Judging popular lectures in Milwaukee, 1854-1857 -- Frederick Douglass as lyceum lecturer, 1850s-1870s -- Anna Dickinson's "Whited sepulchres," 1869-1870 -- "A living shuttle".
Lyceums
Popular culture
Lectures and lecturing