The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century America

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Tom F. Wright Part I: Cultivating Cosmopolitanism 1. How Cosmopolitan Was the Lyceum, Anyway? 23 Angela G. Ray 2. Women Thinking: The International Popular Lecture and Its Audience in Antebellum New England 42 Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray 3. Bringing Music to the Lyceumites: The Bureaus and the Transformation of Lyceum Entertainment 67 Sara Lampert Part II: Cosmopolitan Authorship 4. Mr. Emerson’s Playful Lyceum: Polyvocal Promotion on the Lecture Circuit 93 Robert Arbour 5. With Press and Paddle: William H. H. Murray’s “Adirondack” Lectures and the Making of a Wilderness Guide 113 Virginia Garnett 6. William James’s “True American Theory”: The Varieties of Religious Experience and Transatlantic Intellectual Culture 130 Paul Stob Contents vi Part III: Internationalism or Imperialism? 7. “Barnum is undone in his own province”: Science, Race, and Entertainment in the Lectures of George Robins Gliddon 151 Susan Branson 8. The Lyceum as Contact Zone: Bayard Taylor’s Lectures on Foreign Travel 168 Peter Gibian 9. The Peripatetic Career of Wherahiko Rawei: Māori Culture on the Global Chautauqua Circuit, 1893–1927 203 Evan Roberts Conclusion: Cosmopolitan Medium 10. Humanist Enterprise in the Marketplace of Culture 223 Thomas Augst About the Contributors 241 Index 245 ...