Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Tom F. Wright
  • Part I. Cultivating cosmopolitanism
  • How cosmopolitan was the lyceum, anyway? / Angela G. Ray
  • Women thinking : the international popular lecture and its audience in antebellum New England / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
  • Bringing music to the lyceumites : the bureaus and the transformation of lyceum entertainment / Sara Lampert
  • Part II. Cosmopolitan authorship
  • Mr. Emerson's playful lyceum : polyvocal promotion on the lecture circuit / Robert Arbour
  • With press and paddle : William H.H. Murray's "Adirondack" lectures and the making of a wilderness guide / Virginia Garnett
  • William James's "True American theory" : the varieties of religious experience and transatlantic intellectual culture / Paul Stob
  • Part III. Internationalism or imperialism?
  • "Barnum is undone in his own province" : science, race, and entertainment in the lectures of George Robins Gliddon / Susan Branson
  • The lyceum as contact zone : Bayard Taylor's lectures on foreign travel / Peter Gibian
  • The peripatetic career of Wherahiko Rawei : Maori culture on the global Chautauqua circuit, 1893-1927 / Evan Roberts
  • Conclusion: Cosmopolitan medium
  • Humanist enterprise in the marketplace of culture / Thomas Augst
  • About the contributors.