The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States / Angela G. Ray.

Author/creator Ray, Angela G.
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEast Lansing : Michigan State University Press,
Descriptionxi, 371 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents 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."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-349) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004025630
ISBN0870137441 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN087013745X (cloth : alk. paper)

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