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UNINA9910815180903321 |
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The cosmopolitan lyceum : lecture culture and the globe in nineteenth-century America / / edited by Tom F. Wright |
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Lyceums - United States - History - 19th century |
Lectures and lecturing - United States - History - 19th century |
Cosmopolitanism - United States - History - 19th century |
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
United States Intellectual life 19th century |
United States Relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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