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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... orator ridiculed new enthu- siasms and complained that citizens were turning their backs on the lessons of New England's past and “ the old - fashioned meeting house . " But David Daggett was not a minister . He was a lawyer delivering ...
... orator ridiculed new enthu- siasms and complained that citizens were turning their backs on the lessons of New England's past and “ the old - fashioned meeting house . " But David Daggett was not a minister . He was a lawyer delivering ...
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... from Cucumbers , but the Process Is Te- dious ; An Oration , Pronounced on the Fourth of July , 1799 ... ( New Haven , Conn . , 1799 ) , 15– 16 , 18 , 27 . authority proper to a minister . Even on matters unrelated 2 INTRODUCTION.
... from Cucumbers , but the Process Is Te- dious ; An Oration , Pronounced on the Fourth of July , 1799 ... ( New Haven , Conn . , 1799 ) , 15– 16 , 18 , 27 . authority proper to a minister . Even on matters unrelated 2 INTRODUCTION.
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... orations began to compete with sermons for public attention , introducing new rhetori- cal strategies to persuade or instruct an audience . Political ideologies stressing citizen virtue and civil liberty reformulated the language of ...
... orations began to compete with sermons for public attention , introducing new rhetori- cal strategies to persuade or instruct an audience . Political ideologies stressing citizen virtue and civil liberty reformulated the language of ...
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... orations ( 8 delivered on July Fourth ) . It contains the proceedings of the General Assembly , the congressional jour- nal , 2 volumes of Connecticut court reports , and a handbook for justices of the peace . Pamphlets cover state ...
... orations ( 8 delivered on July Fourth ) . It contains the proceedings of the General Assembly , the congressional jour- nal , 2 volumes of Connecticut court reports , and a handbook for justices of the peace . Pamphlets cover state ...
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... orator , T. William Johnson , delivering a Phi Beta Kappa address in 1793 , implied that the clerical speaking ... Oration , Pronounced in the Brick Meeting - House , in the City of New - Haven , on the Fourth of July , A.D. 1787 ...
... orator , T. William Johnson , delivering a Phi Beta Kappa address in 1793 , implied that the clerical speaking ... Oration , Pronounced in the Brick Meeting - House , in the City of New - Haven , on the Fourth of July , A.D. 1787 ...
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 |
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A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-century ... Christopher Grasso Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
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