Nineteenth-Century Popular Lectures

Volume IV: The Popular Lecture becomes a Consumer Good, 1880–1914
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-77544-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 380 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.

In this, Volume IV: 1870-1900, the subject matter of credentialed speech, as well as the oratorical approaches of these credentialed men and women, will be highlighted in the selection of lectures. Selections will illustrate the growing tensions of popular lecturing as a space of education, of entertainment, and of the demonstration of citizenship.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodrick, Anne B.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME IV: THE POPULAR LECTURE BECOMES A CONSUMER GOOD, 1880–1914

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

Introduction to Volume IV: The Popular Lecture Becomes a Consumer Good, 1880–1914

PART 1: Thinking About Lectures: More on Education and Mental Culture

1 An Hour in a Library, In Search of Natural Knowledge. Its Relation to Literature, to Culture, and to Conduct. A Lecture.

ARTHUR ELLEY FINCH

2 Leeds Sunday Lecture Society. The Threatened Proceedings

3 The Sunday Evening Lectures and Mr. R. W. Dale

JOHN ALFRED LANGFORD

4 Public Education: A Lecture

H. HERMAN CHILTON

5 Mr. Ruskin’s Bombshell

6 Mr. Ruskin on Public Lectures

7 The Pleasures of Learning

JOHN RUSKIN

8 Lecture XXII. The Vocation of Lecturing
CHARLES JOHN PLUMPTRE

PART 2

2.1: On the Platform: Arts and Literature

9 Theatres and Music Halls: A Lecture.

STEWART DUCKWORTH HEADLAM

10 The Practical Application of the Principles of Aesthetic Theory to Exterior and Interior House Decoration.

OSCAR WILDE

11 The Stage as It Is: A Lecture

JOHN HENRY BROADRIBB IRVING

12 The Theatre of Shakespeare’s Country in the 19th Century

MAX O’RELL

13 Robert Browning: The Thoughts of a Poet on Art and Faith. A Lecture.

HOWARD PEARSON

14 The Moral Influence of Literature. A Lecture Delivered at Toynbee Hall

HENRY NETTLESHIP

15 Hamlet: From an Actor’s Prompt-Book. The Substance of a Lecture Delivered by Herbert Beerbohm Tree to the Wolverhampton Literary Society
HERBERT BEERBOHM-TREE

2.2 On the Platform: Science for Everyone

16 Mrs. Emma Hardinge’s Address at Cavendish Rooms

17 An Investigation of the Phenomena of Spiritualism.

HERBERT MARRIOTT

18 Bees in the Hive

ARABELLA B. BUCKLEY

19 A Glimpse through the Corridors of Time

ROBERT S. BALL

20 Sir Robert Ball’s Lecture at Blackheath

21 Popular Science Lectures

2.3 On the Platform: Current Events

22 Shall We Have a Channel Tunnel? A Lecture

HORACE COURTENAY GAMMELL FORBES

23 The Channel Tunnel: A Lecture

SIR FREDERICK BRAMWELL

24 Address of Mr. H. M. Stanley on England and the Congo and Manchester Trade.

HENRY M. STANLEY

25 Henry Morton Stanley’s meeting with Emin Pasha in 1888 during his journey through central Africa, Lithograph

26 Advertisement of Lectures on Burma

B. J. MALDEN

27 The Story of a ‘Tell’. A Lecture

W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE

28 Voyages in Cloudland

2.4 On the Platform: Women as Lecturers and Performers

29 Lady Lecturers

30 Gallantry

LOLA MONTEZ

31 Mere Man

SARAH GRAND

32 Mere Man

33 Manchester Domestic Economy Classes: Lectures
to Women. No. 2: Girlhood.

ALICE KER

34 Lecture 1: Some Preliminary Considerations

CHARLOTTE M. MASON

35 Women as Lecturers, [Edith Bradley’s Association of
Women Pioneer Lecturers]

36 Miss Annie Parker

37 Advertisements by Elocutionists

PART 3

3.1 New Techniques, New Models, New Audiences

38 Advertisements by Lecturers

39 Advertisement by Robert Hellis

40 Preliminary Hints to Amateur Lecturers

41 Lantern Reading. The Romance of History, Or, Fact and Fiction.

42 Lecture: Dr. Taylor’s Science-Gossip

43 Lectures by Mr. Frank Curzon

44 The Great Snazelle

45 Evolution and Ethics. The Romanes Lecture 1893

THOMAS HUXLEY

46 The Obligations of the Universities Toward Art. The Romanes Lecture 1895

WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT

47 The Relations of the Advanced and the Backward Races of Mankind. The Romanes Lecture 1902

JAMES BRYCE

48 Modern Views on Matter. The Romanes Lecture 1903

OLIVER LODGE

49 The English National Character. The Romanes Lecture 1896

MANDELL CREIGHTON

50 Our Future Coalfields. Abstract of Gilchrist Lecture.

CHARLES LAPWORTH

51 Prospects of University Extension in England

MICHAEL E. SADLER

52 Greek Art and Life. A Lecture

EUGÉNIE SELLERS

3.2 The Rise of the Lecture Agency and End-of-Century Programming

53 Concerning Popular Lectures

54 List of Lecturers Served by the Lecture Agency, Ltd.

55 Lecture Programs at Four Institutions (1899–1900)

Conclusion

Volume IV: Bibliography of sources

Volume IV: Bibliography of works cited

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).