Star Course : : Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tours and the Consolidation of Modern Celebrity / / by Peter Cherches.
In the quarter century following the Civil War, “star courses” brought people famous for diverse pursuits before American audiences as lecturers, transforming what had been a largely educational institution into a major form of mainstream popular entertainment. No longer reliant on a rhetoric of upl...
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Superior document: | Transdisciplinary Studies |
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Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017. |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Transdisciplinary Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (CXVI, 18 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Peter Cherches
- Lyceums and Lay Sermons / Peter Cherches
- A New System / Peter Cherches
- Star Course / Peter Cherches
- Speculation / Peter Cherches
- Rituals of Celebrity / Peter Cherches
- “Triflers on the Platform” / Peter Cherches
- Conclusion / Peter Cherches
- Bibliography / Peter Cherches
- About the Author / Peter Cherches
- Index / Peter Cherches.