Wit and wisdom : the forgotten literary life of New England villages /
"The lyceum movement gained momentum in the decades preceding the Civil War, presenting members the opportunity to participate in literary life and discuss the issues of the day. While urban lyceums played host to a who's who of nineteenth-century intellectual life, such as Ralph Waldo Eme...
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Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : the treasure in the attic
- Introduction
- "Report of Last Lyceum" : discovering a forgotten institution
- "A crown of wisdom weave" : the rural lyceum tradition
- "The great work of self-culture" : learning through debate
- "The ladies have nobly responded" : women in the lyceum
- "Who will sustain the paper?" : the work of editing
- "Effulgent in wisdom and sparkling with wit" : exploring the papers
- "Read by so many eager subscribers" : the press as model
- "The speaking eye and the listening ear" : performing the papers
- "How shall we win back lost ground?" : the end of an era
- Epilogue : "coming here among strangers"
- Appendices A. Lyceum papers consulted
- B. Constitution of the Literary Association, West Plymouth, NH (1870)
- C. The Emblem 1, no. 8 (Landaff, NH), February 25, 1860
- D. "The three centuries," Bean's Corner Sunbeam (Jay, ME), January 16, 1877.
