Nineteenth-Century Popular Lectures

Volume II: Organization, Professionalization, and Controversy on the Platform, 1850–1880
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-77542-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This collection brings together and contextualizes a wide variety of lectures given in institutions and clubs in 19th century England. The popular lecture became one of the most common artefacts of Victorian culture and yet, due to its ephemerality, we know little about who spoke, who listened, why these lectures were delivered, and how they were received. The volumes in this set show how the lecture emerged as a central part of popular culture, how it changed over time, and how the educational and entertaining components of the popular lecture were in constant tension, preserving a crucial piece of political, social, and cultural history.

Volume II: 1850-1870 Sciences and Social Sciences, provides a selection of lectures in sciences and social sciences that cover a variety of topics that were considered necessary to the up-to-date Victorian man and woman.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodrick, Anne B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME II ORGANIZATION, PROFESSIONALIZATION, AND CONTROVERSY ON THE PLATFORM, 1850–1880

Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Introduction to Volume II: Organization, Professionalization, and Controversy on the Platform 1850–1880

PART 1: Lecture Culture at Mid-Century

1.1 The Growth of Institutions and Societies

1 Proceedings of Institutions

2 Proceedings of Institutions. Bolton

3 The Institute, and Lecturers’ Gazette

4 Royal Polytechnic Institute, Program

5 Preface, in Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men’s Christian Association.
T. HENRY TARLTON

6 Annual Report of the Committee of the Leeds Mechanics’ Institution and Literary Society.

7 Preface and Table of Contents, Pitman’s Popular Lecturer and Reader

8 Subjects Lectured upon by Correspondents of the Working Men’s Educational Union
BENJAMIN SCOTT

1.2 Advice for Lecturers, Institutions, and Lecture-Goer

9 Practical Hints to Unpracticed Lecturers to the Working Classes
BENJAMIN SCOTT

10 A Lecture on Lectures.
G. W. KITCHIN

11 A Suggestion for Supplying the Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics’ Institutes of Great Britain and Ireland.
ARTHUR HERVEY

12 Authorship. A Lecture Delivered before the Young Men’s Christian Association, in Exeter Hall, January 24, 1854
REV. THOMAS BINNEY

13 Habit: A Lecture.

JOHN BARTHOLOMEW GOUGH

14 Map of Knowledge
GEORGE HIGINBOTHAM

15 Self-Education. A Lecture.

GEORGE HIGINBOTHAM

16 Pleasantry
GEORGE JA COB HOL YOAKE

17 My First Lecture

ANDREW WILSON

18 Mr. Harold Smith’s Lecture
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

1.3 The Relationship Between the Popular Lecture and Education

19 Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Metropolitan Evening Classes for Young Men

F. D. MAURICE

20 Continuous Education; or, Practical Suggestions about Libraries, Discussion-Meetings, Lectures and Other
Means of Promoting Self-Culture.
F. W. NAYLOR

21 How to Read. A Lecture.
ROBERT H. GROOME

22 Remarks on Reading. Delivered at the Blackburn Mechanics’ Institute
JOHN MORLEY

23 Schools for Children and Institutes for Adults. An Address on National Education
HARRY CHESTER

24 Debate: Are Public Lectures Profitable for Instruction?

25 Wise Saws and Modern Instances
T. H. BULLOCK

PART 2: Lecture Subjects: Facts and Controversies

2.1 The Attractions of Science

26 Michael Faraday delivering a Christmas Lecture at the Royal Institution
ALEXANDER BLAIKLEY

27 The Chemistry of the Breakfast Table
ALBERT J. BERNAYS

28 The Chemistry of the Breakfast Table
JOHN RYAN

29 Preface, in Short Lectures on Plants for Schools and Adult Classes
ELIZABETH TWINING

30 The Flower
ELIZABETH TWINING

31 The Study of Plants. Delivered Before the Stretford Mutual Improvement Society
BRUCE FINDLAY

32 Postcard Illustrating Planned Paleozoic Exhibit in Central Park, New York to be Designed by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

33 A Day with the Iguanodon; A Long Time Ago
REV. PROFESSOR HENRY GRIFFITHS

34 On Volcanoes and Earthquakes
JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL

35 The Story of a Piece of Slate
JOHN ELLOR TAYLOR

36 Alcohol: Its Function and Place. A Lecture.
THOMAS R. FRASER

2.2 The Attractions of Controversy

37 On the Philosophy of Medicine.
ROBERT MORTIMER GLOVER

38 Lecture on the Plurality of Worlds
JOHN DIXON

39 Orthodoxy at Issue with the Creation; or, The ‘Religious Difficulty’ Confessed by Sir David Brewster and his Opponent
EDWARD HIGGINSON

40 Contents, in Vaccination Brought Home to the People

CHANDOS LEIGH HUNT

41 Vaccination Brought Home to the People
CHANDOS LEIGH HUNT

42 Prevention of Cruelty, and Anti-Vivisection
ISABEL BURTON

43 Moral and Religious Estimate of Vivisection
HENRY NUTCOMBE OXENHAM

44 The Uselessness of Vivisection upon Animals as a Method of Scientific Research.
LAWSON TAIT

45 Vivisection: In its Scientific, Religious, and Moral Aspects
E. D. GIRDLESTONE

Conclusion
Volume II: Bibliography of Sources

Volume II: Bibliography of Works Cited Volume
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Anne Rodrick is a professor of history at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, USA, where she has taught for 23 years. She earned her PhD from the University of Texas/Austin. Her monograph, 'Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship', is forthcoming and she has also published 'The History of Great Britain' (2005) and Self Help and Civic Culture: Citizenship in Victorian Birmingham (2004, reissued 2019).