A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century ConnecticutUNC Press Books, 2012 M12 1 - 524 páginas As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut. In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people. |
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... Awakening : Jonathan Edwards and the Regulation of Religious Discourse 86 3. Legalism and Orthodoxy : Thomas Clap and the Transformation of Legal Culture 144 PART II : CULTIVATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT 185 4. The Experimental Philosophy of ...
... Awakening : Jonathan Edwards and the Regulation of Religious Discourse 86 3. Legalism and Orthodoxy : Thomas Clap and the Transformation of Legal Culture 144 PART II : CULTIVATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT 185 4. The Experimental Philosophy of ...
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... Awakening " of the early 1740s challenged traditional assumptions about public speech and cul- tural authority , and it focused debate upon the role of higher learning in a religious society . Still , when the dust settled and the ...
... Awakening " of the early 1740s challenged traditional assumptions about public speech and cul- tural authority , and it focused debate upon the role of higher learning in a religious society . Still , when the dust settled and the ...
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... Awakening , the Enlighten- ment , and the Revolution ; the variously described processes of Anglicization , Americanization , democratization , and modernization ; the complex relation- ships between piety and intellect , Protestantism ...
... Awakening , the Enlighten- ment , and the Revolution ; the variously described processes of Anglicization , Americanization , democratization , and modernization ; the complex relation- ships between piety and intellect , Protestantism ...
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... Awakening , and , the third , Yale president Thomas Clap's legalistic efforts to secure orthodoxy . Part II , " Cultivation and Enlightenment , " looks at how the new learning could reconstruct community and refashion the learned man's ...
... Awakening , and , the third , Yale president Thomas Clap's legalistic efforts to secure orthodoxy . Part II , " Cultivation and Enlightenment , " looks at how the new learning could reconstruct community and refashion the learned man's ...
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... Awakening debates of the 1740s weakened the covenant as a legitimation of church and state au- thority . The ecclesiastical disputes and French wars of the 1750s and 1760s ren- dered it increasingly ambiguous as a marker of broad public ...
... Awakening debates of the 1740s weakened the covenant as a legitimation of church and state au- thority . The ecclesiastical disputes and French wars of the 1750s and 1760s ren- dered it increasingly ambiguous as a marker of broad public ...
Contenido
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CULTIVATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT | 185 |
REVOLUTION AND STEADY HABITS | 279 |
The New Politics of Revolution and Steady Habits | 461 |
Connecticut Imprints | 487 |
Connecticut Election Sermons | 491 |
A Note on the Historiography of the Great Awakening | 495 |
Index | 499 |
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A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-century ... Christopher Grasso Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-century ... Christopher Grasso Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-century ... Christopher Grasso Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
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