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Author:   Angela G. Ray (Northwestern University) ,  Paul Stob (Vanderbilt University)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume:   16
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 22.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780271080888

ISBN 10:   0271080884
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   11 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob) Part 1: Disrupting Narratives 1. The Portable Lyceum in the Civil War (Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray) 2. Women’s Entrepreneurial Lecturing in the Early National Period (Granville Ganter) 3. Mobilizing Irish America in the Antebellum Lecture Hall (Tom F. Wright) 4. Authentic Imitation or Perverse Original? Learning About Race from America’s Popular Platforms (Kirt H. Wilson and Kaitlyn G. Patia) Part 2: Distinctive Voices 5. A Lyceum Diaspora: Hilary Teage and a Liberian Civic Identity (Bjørn F. Stillion Southard) 6. Secret Knowledge, Public Stage; Joseph Smith’s King Follett Discourse (Richard Benjamin Crosby) 7 .The “Perfect Delight” of Dramatic Reading: Gertrude Kellogg and the Post-Civil War Lyceum (Sara E. Lampert) 8. Talking Music: Amy Fay and the Origins of the Lecture Recital (E. Douglas Bomberger) 9. Hinduism for the West: Swami Vivekananda’s Pluralism at the World’s Parliament of Religions (Scott R. Stroud) Conclusion: Placing Platform Culture in Nineteenth-Century American Life (Carolyn Eastman) Notes List of Contributors Index

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Lecture platforms such as the lyceum were the true `social media' of the nineteenth century, forging communities in pursuit of common understanding, insight, and wisdom. Ray and Stob have collected studies showing that the cultural practices of platform culture were robust even in the face of social disruption and among marginalized as well as mainstream populations. Each essay displays exemplary scholarship; together they illumine a vital but often neglected dimension of nineteenth-century public culture. -David Zarefsky, author of Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate This collection calls attention to nineteenth-century contexts where unconventional modes of education were employed and exposes readers to alternative ways of thinking together, presented from multiple disciplinary perspectives. By looking at groups and individuals in a variety of settings, including lecturers, platform entertainers, journalists, and religious leaders, Thinking Together offers new ways to understand how we learn from one another. -Shirley Wilson Logan, author of Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America In an era when we desperately need new ideas for reviving public deliberation, this interdisciplinary collection reminds us of a time when creative activists experimented with new ways to advance learning and promote moral and intellectual enlightenment. Extending beyond the lyceum movement, the volume recalls forums that empowered people excluded from formal education not only to speak, listen, and learn, but also to `think together' about the crucial political and social issues of the day. -J. Michael Hogan, coeditor of Speech and Debate as Civic Education A highly original collection that introduces readers not only to diversity in subjects and approaches but also to the commonalities in aspiration and pleasure. Contributors do justice to both in essays ranging from a lyceum in Liberia to meetings of soldiers imprisoned during the Civil War to immigrants on Manhattan's Lower East Side. -Mary Kelley, author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic Thinking Together explores popular learning in the United States during the long nineteenth century through case studies of a broad multiplicity of lyceum speakers. Maintaining the particularity of each case, the volume vividly illustrates how distinct racial, ethnic, gender, and religious groups and individuals not only educated themselves but also constructed a sense of belonging while forging spiritual and political communities. -Susan Zaeske, author of Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity

Thinking Together explores popular learning in the United States during the long nineteenth century through case studies of a broad multiplicity of lyceum speakers. Maintaining the particularity of each case, the volume vividly illustrates how distinct racial, ethnic, gender, and religious groups and individuals not only educated themselves but also constructed a sense of belonging while forging spiritual and political communities. --Susan Zaeske, author of Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity Lecture platforms such as the lyceum were the true 'social media' of the nineteenth century, forging communities in pursuit of common understanding, insight, and wisdom. Ray and Stob have collected studies showing that the cultural practices of platform culture were robust even in the face of social disruption and among marginalized as well as mainstream populations. Each essay displays exemplary scholarship; together they illumine a vital but often neglected dimension of nineteenth-century public culture. --David Zarefsky, author of Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate A highly original collection that introduces readers not only to diversity in subjects and approaches but also to the commonalities in aspiration and pleasure. Contributors do justice to both in essays ranging from a lyceum in Liberia to meetings of soldiers imprisoned during the Civil War to immigrants on Manhattan's Lower East Side. --Mary Kelley, author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic This collection calls attention to nineteenth-century contexts where unconventional modes of education were employed and exposes readers to alternative ways of thinking together, presented from multiple disciplinary perspectives. By looking at groups and individuals in a variety of settings, including lecturers, platform entertainers, journalists, and religious leaders, Thinking Together offers new ways to understand how we learn from one another. --Shirley Wilson Logan, author of Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth-Century Black America In an era when we desperately need new ideas for reviving public deliberation, this interdisciplinary collection reminds us of a time when creative activists experimented with new ways to advance learning and promote moral and intellectual enlightenment. Extending beyond the lyceum movement, the volume recalls forums that empowered people excluded from formal education not only to speak, listen, and learn, but also to 'think together' about the crucial political and social issues of the day. --J. Michael Hogan, coeditor of Speech and Debate as Civic Education

Author Information

Angela G. Ray is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and the author of The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Paul Stob is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University and the author of William James and the Art of Popular Statement.

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