| 书目名称 | Star Course | | 副标题 | Nineteenth-Century L | | 编辑 | Peter Cherches | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Other studies have dealt with the early Lyceum movement (most famously associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson) or with the later (early 20th century) Chautauqua movement, but not the commercialized “star | | 丛书名称 | Transdisciplinary Studies | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 uplift that had characterized the more sedate antebellum American lyceum movement exemplified by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gilded-Age lecture series presented a wider range of individuals—writers, humorists, preachers, actors, scientists, and political activists—to an American public yearning to see and hear the famous and the infamous of all stripes in the flesh. Borrowing the word “star” from the theater, these national lecture tours helped to solidify an already evolving notion of celebrity through emerging public relations techniques and an expanding transportation network that transformed the lecture platform into a pre-electronic form of mass media, prefiguring much of the content of television and radio. Among the lecturers discussed are Mark Twain, the superstar cleric Henry Ward Beecher, cartoonist Thomas Nast, and African explorer Henry Morton Stanley, as well as the 19th wife of Brigh | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Lectures; Lyceums; Celebrity; Fame; Mass media | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-203-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6351-203-9 | | copyright | SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017 |
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