1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463801303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-61376-289-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

374/.97309034

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

United States Intellectual life 19th century

United States Relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386512503316

Autore

Glisson William

Titolo

The common law epitomiz'd [[electronic resource] ] : with directions how to prosecute and defend personal actions, very useful for all lawyers, justices of peace, and gentlemen : to which is annexed the nature of a writ of error, and the general proceedings there upon : with a plain table for the easie finding out of every particular / / by William Glisson and Anthony Gulston .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by the assigns of Rich, and Edw. Atkins for Hen. Brome and Tho. Basset ..., 1679

Edizione

[The second edition, revised, explained, and much enlarged /]

Descrizione fisica

[14], 495 p

Altri autori (Persone)

GulstonAnthony

StyleWilliam <1603-1679.>

ApplegarthHenry

Soggetti

Actions and defenses - England

Civil procedure - England

Writs - England

Appellate procedure - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.

Translated from the French by Hen. Applegarth.

Table of contents: p. [7]-[14]

Sommario/riassunto

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