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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... argument to preserve the college as a religious seminary : an uncirculated manuscript draft , a published essay , and the manuscript text of a speech delivered to the General Assembly . Chapter 5 discusses the relationships between Ezra ...
... argument to preserve the college as a religious seminary : an uncirculated manuscript draft , a published essay , and the manuscript text of a speech delivered to the General Assembly . Chapter 5 discusses the relationships between Ezra ...
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... argument , we might say , and there is more to it than an opposition writer's frustration with the entrenched power of Con- necticut's Federalist - Congregational Standing Order . Older patterns of power and authority might have been ...
... argument , we might say , and there is more to it than an opposition writer's frustration with the entrenched power of Con- necticut's Federalist - Congregational Standing Order . Older patterns of power and authority might have been ...
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... argument about isomorphic structures , focused on a later pe- riod , see George M. Thomas , Revivalism and Cultural Change : Christianity , Nation Building , and the Market in the Nineteenth - Century United States ( Chicago , 1989 ) ...
... argument about isomorphic structures , focused on a later pe- riod , see George M. Thomas , Revivalism and Cultural Change : Christianity , Nation Building , and the Market in the Nineteenth - Century United States ( Chicago , 1989 ) ...
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... arguments from legal textbooks rather than the Scriptures . Clap's own arguments for Yale as a " religious society , " which were filled with legal references and citations of precedent , acknowledged the im- portance of the law as an ...
... arguments from legal textbooks rather than the Scriptures . Clap's own arguments for Yale as a " religious society , " which were filled with legal references and citations of precedent , acknowledged the im- portance of the law as an ...
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... argument , changes in substance as well as style . So , as Griswold copied Saltonstall's ser- mon , rewriting the language of the past in a post - Revolutionary age , which passages seemed like quaint relics of a bygone era ? And which ...
... argument , changes in substance as well as style . So , as Griswold copied Saltonstall's ser- mon , rewriting the language of the past in a post - Revolutionary age , which passages seemed like quaint relics of a bygone era ? And which ...
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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