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

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245 abolition, 34, 57, 58, 158, 162, 226–27, 231 Adirondacks, 113–26 Africa and Africans, 12, 33, 157–58, 163, 172–73, 180, 183–90, 197 African American lyceums, 27 Alaska, 33 Alexandria Lyceum (Virginia), 27, 30 American Civil War, 10, 34, 68–70, 86, 134, 204–6, 231, 234 American exceptionalism, 7, 24, 34 American Journal of Communication, 225. See also Holbrook, Josiah American Museum of Natural History, 236 American Review magazine, 162 Anglo-Saxonism, 6, 169, 180, 183, 188, 228 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 7, 25, 46, 98 Arabia and Arabs, 13, 33–34, 40n, 42–43, 56, 161, 174–99 Arbour, Robert, 10, 11, 93–126, 170 Atlantic Monthly magazine, 5 audiences: identity of, 9–10, 42, 96–98, 198–99; women, 9–10, 43–59, 156, 198; class dynamics of, 9–10, 224–25 Augst, Thomas, 3, 4, 14, 15, 223–39 Austria and Austrians, 29, 58 Australia and Australians, 203–4, 207, 211 authorship: economics of, 30, 49, 114, 152, 208, 214; lecturing and, 170; lecturing careers and, 4, 9, 10, 11, 34, 34, 68–73, 80–89, 98–106, 115, 170–71, 204–13, 224–30 Index Barnum, P. T., 12, 151, 159, 163–66, 229, 231, 236; American Museum, 229 Beecher, Henry Ward, 6, 234 Benjamin, Park, 186 Bode, Carl, 4, 26, 28, 44, 176, 226 Boston: lecturing in, 1–2, 10, 15, 25–27, 33, 42, 55–57, 69–72, 80–83, 97, 113–17, 120, 158–59, 160–62; Boston Brahmins, 55; Lowell lecture series, 154; Masonic Temple, 42, 105; Tremont Temple, 151, 160, 161; Williams’ Lecture and Musical Bureau, 72. See also Boston Mercantile Library Association Boston Lyceum Bureau, 70, 80, 83, 205 Boston Mercantile Library Association, 1, 2, 16, 26 Branson, Susan, 12, 151–63 Brazil and Brazilians, 29 British Empire, 203. See also AngloSaxonism Buddhism and Buddhists, 144 Buell, Lawrence, 5, 34n, 103, 108 California, 33, 130, 135, 161, 172, 174, 181 Canada, 82, 118, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128 cannibalism, 204, 212, 215, 219 Carlyle, Thomas, 98, 101, 102 Castanis, Christophorus Plato, 43, 44, 48, 53 Cayton, Mary Kupiec, 17, 44, 99 celebrity culture, 10, 33, 36, 67, 68, 70, 99, 102, 229, 233, 238; music and, 72–77, 80–86; Bayard Taylor and, 173–74, 180. See also lecturing as career 246 Index Chautauqua, 13, 27, 203–15, 231, 236–37 Chicago, 27, 29, 33, 69, 72, 204, 210–12 China and the Chinese, 35–37, 159, 184–85, 188 Christianity, 14, 55, 187, 194, 204, 209–10, 232, 236 Cincinnati, Ohio, 30, 84, 102, 112 civilization, ideas of, 5, 7–8, 23, 152–56, 204–15, 218; Bayard Taylor and, 183–88, 194 “civilizing mission” of the lyceum, 5, 7–8, 23, 228–32, 234–37 Civil War (U.S.). See American Civil War classification, 185–86 communication networks, 15, 45, 136, 144, 205, 235–36. See also communications technology communications technology, 223–26. See also communications networks Concord Lyceum (Massachusetts), 10, 27, 30, 31, 95 contact zone, lyceum as, 174–76, 180 Copway, George, 13 cosmopolitanism: Appiah on, 7, 25, 46, 96, 98; as cultural crusade, 5, 97, 177–78, 224–26; definitions of, 2, 7–8, 11, 24, 28, 58, 95–98, 143, 169, 180, 223, 232; Delanty and Inglis on, 7; and Emerson, 1–3, 15, 16, 95, 98, 103, 106, 110, 228; as form of mastery, 181–86; and gender, 43–59, 84, 85; and Gliddon , 151–163; and imperialism, 12, 13, 136, 168–200, 236; and Irving, 8, 12, 168–200; and James, 130–145; Kant on, 7, 25, 106; Mignolo on, 169; and Murray, 113–26; and music, 67–86; and nationalism, 1–3, 6, 7, 12–13, 24, 32–38, 96–98, 136, 143–45, 169, 180, 199–200, 232–39; nineteenth-century views of, 2, 6, 7–9, 24–25, 38, 46, 96, 143, 169, 238–39; Nussbaum on, 2, 25; as political concept, 1–2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 95, 96, 143–45, 235; and race, 12, 22, 37, 59, 151–63, 178–90, 204, 207, 211, 215, 237; Robbins on, 7, 8, 16; Romantic cosmopolitanism , 7, 8; and Stoics, 25, 96; and Taylor, 168–200 costume: performers’ use of, 9, 12, 33, 36, 53–54, 158; Bayard Taylor in costume, 9, 12, 175–79, 213, 228; as “cultural transvestitism ,” 177 cultural transvestitism, 177 DeWitt, Iowa, 93, 101 Dickens, Charles, 3 Dickinson, Anna, 34, 35, 76 digital culture, 223–24 Douglass, Frederick, 24, 162, 167, 232...