Description: This book explores how knowledge-based culture, delivered primarily through the popular lecture, helped shape Victorian citizenship.
Brief description: Anne B. Rodrick teaches European history at Wofford College, USA, where she also directs the Humanities program and the Medicine in the Liberal Arts Program.
Review Quotes: "With extensive sifting through obscure and scattered sources ... Rodrick's emphasis on 'hard' data as the basis of her study is a great virtue of her book, enabling analysis of changes over time in lecture topics and genres, variations by geography and type of hosting institution, and the typologies of the lecturers themselves." --English Historical Review