TY - JOUR
T1 - What Hath She Wrought?: Woman’s Rights and the Nineteenth-Century Lyceum
AU - Ray, Angela G.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Proposing an agenda for future scholarship meshing nineteenth-century popular media and social reform, this essay offers a historical foundation for studies of the relationships between the midcentury lyceum lecture circuit and the organized movement for woman's rights. Although lectures or debates about woman's rights constituted a small proportion of lyceum offerings, advocates considered the lyceum a significant medium for their public advocacy. Conventions of popular, commercial lecturing meant that reformist rhetoric produced in lyceum venues mixed discourses of assimilation and transformation.
AB - Proposing an agenda for future scholarship meshing nineteenth-century popular media and social reform, this essay offers a historical foundation for studies of the relationships between the midcentury lyceum lecture circuit and the organized movement for woman's rights. Although lectures or debates about woman's rights constituted a small proportion of lyceum offerings, advocates considered the lyceum a significant medium for their public advocacy. Conventions of popular, commercial lecturing meant that reformist rhetoric produced in lyceum venues mixed discourses of assimilation and transformation.
U2 - 10.1353/rap.2006.0053
DO - 10.1353/rap.2006.0053
M3 - Article
VL - 9
SP - 183
EP - 213
JO - Rhetoric and Public Affairs
JF - Rhetoric and Public Affairs
ER -