Star Course Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tours and the Consolidation of Modern Celebrity /

In the quarter century following the Civil War, “star courses” brought people famous for diverse pursuits before American audiences as lecturers, transforming what had been a largely educational institution into a major form of mainstream popular entertainment. No longer reliant on a rhetoric of upl...

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Main Author: Cherches, Peter (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2017.
Series:Transdisciplinary Studies
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link

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