Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title The cosmopolitan lyceum : lecture culture and the globe in nineteenth-century America / edited by Tom F. Wright.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (vi, 250 pages)
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Lyceums -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Lyceums.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject 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.
Intellectual life.
United States -- Relations.
Relations.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Wright, Tom F., 1981- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Cosmopolitan lyceum. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013] 9781625340580 (DLC) 2013040191 (OCoLC)844729411
ISBN 9781613762899 (electronic book)
1613762895 (electronic book)
9781625340580 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1625340583 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781625340597 (paper ; alkaline paper)
1625340591 (paper ; alkaline paper)