A study of the twentieth-century transatlantic literary lecture tour, with a focus on the role that this circuit played in the formation of transatlantic modernism by following a diverse group of authors: Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, Gertrude Stein, and W. H. Auden. Documenting the movement of the lecture form from the lyceum stage to the halls of academia, this study complements and complicates Mark McGurl's frequently cited book, The Program Era (2009), to show an evolution of modernism (and modernists) as popular product. It offers new insights on racialization and nationalism in its readings of Wilde, Yeats, and Tagore, and writes modernism as a shadow story about the technology of transportation. The prose is a pleasure to read throughout, and like a good public lecture, the book is as enjoyable as it is edifying.