The cosmopolitan lyceum
Subtitle: lecture culture and the globe in nineteenth-century America
By: edited by Tom F. Wright
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781625340580; 9781625340597
Subjects: Lyceums; History; Lectures and lecturing; Cosmopolitanism; Popular culture; Intellectual life; Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Tom F. Wright; title: Part I. Cultivating cosmopolitanism; title: How cosmopolitan was the lyceum, anyway? / Angela G. Ray; title: Women thinking : the international popular lecture and its audience in antebellum New England / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray; title: Bringing music to the lyceumites : the bureaus and the transformation of lyceum entertainment / Sara Lampert; title: Part II. Cosmopolitan authorship; title: Mr. Emerson's playful lyceum : polyvocal promotion on the lecture circuit / Robert Arbour; title: With press and paddle : William H.H. Murray's "Adirondack" lectures and the making of a wilderness guide / Virginia Garnett; title: William James's "True American theory" : the varieties of religious experience and transatlantic intellectual culture / Paul Stob; title: Part III. Internationalism or imperialism?; title: "Barnum is undone in his own province" : science, race, and entertainment in the lectures of George Robins Gliddon / Susan Branson; title: The lyceum as contact zone : Bayard Taylor's lectures on foreign travel / Peter Gibian; title: The peripatetic career of Wherahiko Rawei : Maori culture on the global Chautauqua circuit, 1893-1927 / Evan Roberts; title: Conclusion: Cosmopolitan medium; title: Humanist enterprise in the marketplace of culture / Thomas Augst; title: About the contributors.