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

Title
The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States / Angela G. Ray.
Author
Ray, Angela G.
Publication
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2005.

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xi, 371 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Lyceums > United States > History > 19th century
  • Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century
  • Lectures and lecturing > United States > History > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-349) and index.
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."
Call Number
JFE 07-2195
ISBN
  • 0870137441 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780870137440 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 087013745X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780870137457 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004025630
OCLC
57167346
Author
Ray, Angela G.
Title
The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States / Angela G. Ray.
Imprint
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-349) and index.
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JFE 07-2195
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