The cosmopolitan lyceum lecture culture and the globe in nineteenth-century America / edited by Tom F. Wright.
| Other author | Wright, Tom F., 1981- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013] |
| Description | vi, 250 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013040191 |
| ISBN | 9781625340580 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 9781625340597 (paper : alkaline paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |