The Cosmopolitan Lyceum

The Cosmopolitan Lyceum
Title The Cosmopolitan Lyceum PDF eBook
Author Tom F. Wright
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre Education
ISBN 9781625340597

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From the 1830s to the 1900s, a circuit of lecture halls known as the lyceum movement flourished across the United States. At its peak, up to a million people a week regularly attended talks in local venues, captivated by the words of visiting orators who spoke on an extensive range of topics. The movement was a major intellectual and cultural force of this nation-building period, forming the creative environment of writers and public figures such as Frederic Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anna Dickinson, and Mark Twain. The phenomenon of the lyceum has commonly been characterized as inward looking and nationalistic. Yet as this collection of essays reveals, nineteenth-century audiences were fascinated by information from around the globe, and lecturers frequently spoke to their fellow Americans of their connection to the world beyond the nation and helped them understand exotic ways of life. Never simple in its engagement with cosmopolitan ideas, the lyceum provided a powerful public encounter with international currents and crosscurrents, foreshadowing the problems and paradoxes that continue to resonate in our globalized world. This book offers a major reassessment of this important cultural phenomenon, bringing together diverse scholars from history, rhetoric, and literary studies. The twelve essays use a range of approaches, cover a wide chronological timespan, and discuss a variety of performers both famous and obscure. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Robert Arbour, Thomas Augst, Susan Branson, Virginia Garnett, Peter Gibian, Sara Lampert, Angela Ray, Evan Roberts, Paul Stob, Mary Zboray, and Ronald Zboray.

Thinking Together

Thinking Together
Title Thinking Together PDF eBook
Author Angela G. Ray
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 255
Release 2018-05-03
Genre History
ISBN 0271081910

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Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how people approached similar questions of learning and difference in the nineteenth century. In the open air, in homes, in public halls, and even in prisons, people pondered recurring issues: justice, equality, careers, entertainment, war and peace, life and death, heaven and hell, the role of education, and the nature of humanity itself. Paying special attention to the dynamics of race and gender in intellectual settings, the contributors to this volume consider how myriad groups and individuals—many of whom lived on the margins of society and had limited access to formal education—developed and deployed knowledge useful for public participation and public advocacy around these concerns. Essays examine examples such as the women and men who engaged lecture culture during the Civil War; Irish immigrants who gathered to assess their relationship to the politics and society of the New World; African American women and men who used music and theater to challenge the white gaze; and settler-colonists in Liberia who created forums for envisioning a new existence in Africa and their relationship to a U.S. homeland. Taken together, this interdisciplinary exploration shows how learning functioned not only as an instrument for public action but also as a way to forge meaningful ties with others and to affirm the value of an intellectual life. By highlighting people, places, and purposes that diversified public discourse, Thinking Together offers scholars across the humanities new insights and perspectives on how difference enhances the human project of thinking together.

Lecturing the Atlantic

Lecturing the Atlantic
Title Lecturing the Atlantic PDF eBook
Author Tom F. Wright
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 265
Release 2017
Genre Education
ISBN 0190496797

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Lecturing the Atlantic is a reinterpretation of the "public lecture" as one of the most important cultural forms of the nineteenth century Anglo-American world. Wright shows how key figures including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Makepeace Thackeray used the lecture hall to explore Anglo-American relations and themes of progress and national identity.

All the Facts

All the Facts
Title All the Facts PDF eBook
Author James W. Cortada
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 657
Release 2016
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0190460679

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"A history of the role of information in the United States since 1870"--

Herman Melville in Context

Herman Melville in Context
Title Herman Melville in Context PDF eBook
Author Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 412
Release 2018-01-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316766969

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Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville's life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville's writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.

Etude

Etude
Title Etude PDF eBook
Author Theodore Presser
Publisher
Pages 926
Release 1922
Genre Music
ISBN

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Includes music.

The Iowa Journal of History and Politics

The Iowa Journal of History and Politics
Title The Iowa Journal of History and Politics PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 738
Release 1927
Genre Iowa
ISBN

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