Living and Learning with the Lyceum: A Reflection on Invention

Abstract

The essay narrates the author's inventional process in imagining, writing, and developing her doctoral dissertation, which she completed at the University of Minnesota in 2001. That manuscript provided the foundation for her book, The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2005).

Keywords:

• Invention
• education
• lyceum
• rhetorical criticism
• rhetorical history

Acknowledgements

She wishes to thank W. Patrick Wade and Joshua Gunn for helpful comments on an earlier version of this essay. Unpublished quotations appear with permission of their authors.

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Angela G. Ray

Angela G. Ray (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2001) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She is a 2006 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award winner for her title The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States