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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... Congregational Standing Order focused upon the subver- sive potential as well as the persuasive power of the printed and spoken word . At the end of the century , Connecticut's dominant Federalists tried to tighten the bonds between the ...
... Congregational Standing Order focused upon the subver- sive potential as well as the persuasive power of the printed and spoken word . At the end of the century , Connecticut's dominant Federalists tried to tighten the bonds between the ...
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... congregations , from networks of elite gentlemen to the general populace — when , that is , the elite deemed pub- lic instruction appropriate . Nonelites , though mostly literate , tended to use lit- eracy in their daily business and ...
... congregations , from networks of elite gentlemen to the general populace — when , that is , the elite deemed pub- lic instruction appropriate . Nonelites , though mostly literate , tended to use lit- eracy in their daily business and ...
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... congregations , and the state to articulate the normative ideas and values of their society . It was the loss of this monopoly rather than Daggett's alleged " growing opposition to religion " that led to their diminished ( but still ...
... congregations , and the state to articulate the normative ideas and values of their society . It was the loss of this monopoly rather than Daggett's alleged " growing opposition to religion " that led to their diminished ( but still ...
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... Congregational Standing Order . Older patterns of power and authority might have been altered , as Daggett had argued . But the fierce contest among elites for power not only energized but polarized the public , stripping down some of ...
... Congregational Standing Order . Older patterns of power and authority might have been altered , as Daggett had argued . But the fierce contest among elites for power not only energized but polarized the public , stripping down some of ...
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... congregations , sermons that re- mained unpublished but could draw upon the printed texts . Along with other occasional sermons that could have a political cast - especially fast , thanksgiv- ing , and militia sermons — and despite ...
... congregations , sermons that re- mained unpublished but could draw upon the printed texts . Along with other occasional sermons that could have a political cast - especially fast , thanksgiv- ing , and militia sermons — and despite ...
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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