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The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ray, Angela G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Lyceums > United States > History > 19th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Lectures and lecturing > United States > History > 19th century.
Massenkultur.
Lyzeum.
USA.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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."