Thinking Together : : Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century /

Thinking Together : : Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century / / ed. by Angela G. Ray, Paul Stob.

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Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is a multidisciplinary conversation about how pe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Benjamin Crosby, Richard,
Bomberger, E. Douglas,
Eastman, Carolyn,
Ganter, Granville,
Lampert, Sara E.,
Patia, Kaitlyn G.,
Ray, Angela G.,
Saracino Zboray, Mary,
Stillion Southard, Bjørn F.,
Stob, Paul,
Stroud, Scott R.,
Wilson, Kirt H.,
Wright, Tom F.,
Zboray, Ronald J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Ray, Angela G.,
Stob, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2018
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 12 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Disrupting Narratives
  • 1. The Portable Lyceum in the Civil War
  • 2. Women's Entrepreneurial Lecturing in the Early National Period
  • 3. Mobilizing Irish America in the Antebellum Lecture Hall
  • 4. Authentic Imitation or Perverse Original? Learning About Race from America's Popular Platforms
  • Part 2. Distinctive Voices
  • 5. A Lyceum Diaspora: Hilary Teage and a Liberian Civic Identity
  • 6. Secret Knowledge, Public Stage: Joseph Smith's King Follett
  • 7. The "Perfect Delight" of Dramatic Reading: Gertrude Kellogg and the Post-Civil War Lyceum
  • 8. Talking Music: Amy Fay and the Origins of the Lecture Recital
  • 9. Hinduism for the West: Swami Vivekananda's Pluralism at the World's Parliament of Religions
  • Conclusion: Placing Platform Culture in Nineteenth-Century American Life
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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