Thinking together : lecturing, learning, and difference in the long nineteenth century /

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Imprint:	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Rhetoric and democratic deliberation Rhetoric and democratic deliberation.
Subject:	Education -- History -- 19th century. Learning -- History -- 19th century. Lyceums -- History -- 19th century. Lectures and lecturing -- History -- 19th century. Deliberative democracy -- History -- 19th century. Deliberative democracy. Education. Learning. Lectures and lecturing. Lyceums. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12019212

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Other authors / contributors:	Ray, Angela G., editor. Stob, Paul, editor.
ISBN:	9780271081939 0271081937 9780271080871 0271080876
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 27, 2018).
Summary:	"Explores the myriad ways that people in the nineteenth century grappled with questions of learning, belonging, civic participation, and deliberation. Focuses on the dynamics of gender, race, region, and religion, and how individuals and groups often excluded from established institutions developed knowledge useful for public life"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

The portable lyceum in the civil war / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
Women's entrepreneurial lecturing in the early national period / Granville Ganter
Mobilizing Irish America in the antebellum lecture hall / Tom F. Wright
Authentic imitation or perverse original? : learning about race from America's popular platforms / Kirt H. Wilson and Kaitlyn G. Patia
A lyceum diaspora : Hilary Teague and a Liberian civic identity / Bjørn Stillion Southard
Secret knowledge, public stage : Joseph Smith's King Follett discourse / Richard Benjamin Crosby
The "perfect delight" of dramatic reading : Gertrude Kellogg and the post-civil war lyceum / Sara E. Lampert
Talking music : Amy Fay and the origins of the lecture recital / E. Douglas Bomberger
Hinduism for the West : Swami Vivekananda's pluralism at the World's Parliament of Religions / Scott R. Stroud
Conclusion : placing platform culture in nineteenth-century American life / Carolyn Eastman.

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