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work_hyvcsab6k5aofdl4svlblk7l54	Tom F. Wright	The results of locomotion: Bayard Taylor and the travel lecture in the mid-nineteenth-century United States	2010.0	25	.pdf	application/pdf	13175	1760	69	The results of locomotion: Bayard Taylor and the travel lecture in the midnineteenth-century United States To cite this Article Wright, Tom F.(2010) 'The results of locomotion: Bayard Taylor and the travel lecture in the midnineteenth-century United States', Studies in Travel Writing, 14: 2, 111 — 134 The results of locomotion: Bayard Taylor and the travel lecture Keywords: travel; lecture; oratory; oratorical culture; performance; cosmopolitanism; nineteenth century; United States; Bayard Taylor The period represented the peak of the American popular lecture system, offering eclectic such as Bayard Taylor, the archetypal 'travel lecturer' of the period. Of no performer of the period was this more true than Bayard Taylor, the travel writer, In Alcott's terms, Taylor's performances met several great wants of antebellum culture: about American life, these lectures drew upon Taylor's foreign experience to advocate a 'Bayard Taylor's Lecture', Wisconsin Patriot, 6 April 1855; Springfield News, 27 November 'Bayard Taylor Lecture', Philadelphia Press, 6 November 1858.	./cache/work_hyvcsab6k5aofdl4svlblk7l54.pdf	./txt/work_hyvcsab6k5aofdl4svlblk7l54.txt