Overview
- 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 courses” of the Gilded Age, which were more oriented toward popular entertainment than education; this book rescues a lost chapter of American performance history from obscurity.
- The book is based on voluminous primary source archival research and contemporaneous newspaper reports.
- The book provides a new look at the mechanisms of modern celebrity formation through a case study of a particular institution viewed through the lenses of media theory and cultural history.
Part of the book series: Transdisciplinary Studies (TDSS)
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Book Title: Star Course
Book Subtitle: Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tours and the Consolidation of Modern Celebrity
Authors: Peter Cherches
Series Title: Transdisciplinary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-203-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6351-203-9Published: 14 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: CXVI, 18
Topics: Education, general