Thinking Together - Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century

Explores the myriad ways that people in the nineteenth century grappled with questions of learning, belonging, civic participation, and deliberation. Focuses on the dynamics of gender, race, region, and religion, and how individuals and groups often excluded from established institutions developed knowledge useful for public life.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Angela G Ray (Editor), Ray Angela G. (Editor), Paul Stob (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2018
• EAN: 9780271080871
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08087-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Education, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights