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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... called the " public mind . " Yet political and religious dissenters to the Standing Order continued to complain that the state was still dominated by a speaking aristoc- racy intent upon silencing the voices of democracy . The changes ...
... called the " public mind . " Yet political and religious dissenters to the Standing Order continued to complain that the state was still dominated by a speaking aristoc- racy intent upon silencing the voices of democracy . The changes ...
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... called the social history of print and the cultural history of discourse - can help illuminate how public speaking and 6. See Pocock , Virtue , Commerce , and History , 18. On public and private , see Lawrence E. Klein , “ Gender and ...
... called the social history of print and the cultural history of discourse - can help illuminate how public speaking and 6. See Pocock , Virtue , Commerce , and History , 18. On public and private , see Lawrence E. Klein , “ Gender and ...
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... called , had braved a howling wilderness in the 1630s , crushing Indian resistance and clearing the land . The Restoration charter of 1662 annexed the New Haven colony and consolidated a representative government that would be praised ...
... called , had braved a howling wilderness in the 1630s , crushing Indian resistance and clearing the land . The Restoration charter of 1662 annexed the New Haven colony and consolidated a representative government that would be praised ...
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... called from the pulpit to occupy the governor's chair from 1707 to 1724. His administration secured passage of the Saybrook Platform in 1708 , which would be Connecticut's " ecclesiastical con- stitution " for three - quarters of a ...
... called from the pulpit to occupy the governor's chair from 1707 to 1724. His administration secured passage of the Saybrook Platform in 1708 , which would be Connecticut's " ecclesiastical con- stitution " for three - quarters of a ...
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... Problem of Change , " 219-255 . Many local officials refused to make arrests and prosecutions , so the law was only sporadically enforced . For years , election day ministers had called themselves the THE POWER OF THE PUBLIC COVENANT 49.
... Problem of Change , " 219-255 . Many local officials refused to make arrests and prosecutions , so the law was only sporadically enforced . For years , election day ministers had called themselves the THE POWER OF THE PUBLIC COVENANT 49.
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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