Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, & Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob (review)

Abstract

Thinking Together is composed of two sections: “ Disrupting Narratives, ” essays that contest established histories of lecturing and learning in the nineteenth century, and “ Distinctive Voices, ” treatments of single fi gures and their accomplishments. Through this scheme, Ray and Stob create a third productive tension tied to methodology: centering practitioners versus emphasizing the (counter)publics in which they operate. The two approaches are, ultimately, impossible to separate; the section distinctions blur as the essays necessarily toggle between speakers and their collaborating audiences to transform our understanding of nineteenth-century lecture culture.