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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... Religious Discourse , " in Stephen J. Stein , ed . , Jonathan Edwards's Writings : Text , Context , Interpretation ... Religion and American His- tory , 1994–1995 . Harry Stout deserves mention here , too , for all the paying jobs ...
... Religious Discourse , " in Stephen J. Stein , ed . , Jonathan Edwards's Writings : Text , Context , Interpretation ... Religion and American His- tory , 1994–1995 . Harry Stout deserves mention here , too , for all the paying jobs ...
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... religious dissenters to the Standing Order continued to complain that the state was still dominated by a speaking ... religion and politics , knowledge and power . Old literary forms and rhetorical strategies evolved , and new ones ...
... religious dissenters to the Standing Order continued to complain that the state was still dominated by a speaking ... religion and politics , knowledge and power . Old literary forms and rhetorical strategies evolved , and new ones ...
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... religion and politics . An important concept like the national covenant , discussed in Chapter 1 , can be turned ... Religious historians tend to read the eighteenth century as a transition from Puritanism to antebellum revivalism . For ...
... religion and politics . An important concept like the national covenant , discussed in Chapter 1 , can be turned ... Religious historians tend to read the eighteenth century as a transition from Puritanism to antebellum revivalism . For ...
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... religion , literature , and publication in the last de- cades of the century . The sixth chapter centers on Revolutionary satirist John Trumbull , and the seventh on the poet and political preacher Timothy Dwight . Chapter 8 is about ...
... religion , literature , and publication in the last de- cades of the century . The sixth chapter centers on Revolutionary satirist John Trumbull , and the seventh on the poet and political preacher Timothy Dwight . Chapter 8 is about ...
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... religious language , and thus the boundaries of religious community . Edwardseans and their opponents engaged in arguments about the meanings of words in public religious life and about whether the speaking aristocracy of ministers or ...
... religious language , and thus the boundaries of religious community . Edwardseans and their opponents engaged in arguments about the meanings of words in public religious life and about whether the speaking aristocracy of ministers or ...
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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