The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century America
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From the 1830s to the 1900s, a circuit of lecture halls known as the "lyceum movement” flourished across the US. At its peak, up to a million people a week regularly attended talks in local venues. The phenomenon of the lyceum has commonly been characterised as inward looking and nationalistic. Yet as this collection of essays reveals, nineteenth-century audiences were fascinated by information from around the globe, and lecturers frequently spoke of their connection to the world beyond the nation and helped them understand "exotic” ways of life.

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From the 1830s to the 1900s, a circuit of lecture halls known as the "lyceum movement” flourished across the US. At its peak, up to a million people a week regularly attended talks in local venues. The phenomenon of the lyceum has commonly been characterised as inward looking and nationalistic. Yet as this collection of essays reveals, nineteenth-century audiences were fascinated by information from around the globe, and lecturers frequently spoke of their connection to the world beyond the nation and helped them understand "exotic” ways of life.
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Tom F. Wright is lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sussex.