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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... Civil and Ecclesiastical . " This warning came from the Reverend Isaac Stiles , addressing a New Haven freemen's meeting on April 11 , 1743. Preaching from a scriptural passage condemning hypocrisy , Stiles argued that the " New Lights ...
... Civil and Ecclesiastical . " This warning came from the Reverend Isaac Stiles , addressing a New Haven freemen's meeting on April 11 , 1743. Preaching from a scriptural passage condemning hypocrisy , Stiles argued that the " New Lights ...
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... civil liberty reformulated the language of public debate . Law- yers challenged the clergy's dominance in intellectual life . Learned men with the Enlightenment's faith in progress and practical knowledge encouraged a scientific ...
... civil liberty reformulated the language of public debate . Law- yers challenged the clergy's dominance in intellectual life . Learned men with the Enlightenment's faith in progress and practical knowledge encouraged a scientific ...
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... civil policy . The influence of the clerical speaking aristocracy was curtailed as public discussion drew upon an increasingly diverse array of sources beyond holy writ and men in other professions rose in status and learned to court ...
... civil policy . The influence of the clerical speaking aristocracy was curtailed as public discussion drew upon an increasingly diverse array of sources beyond holy writ and men in other professions rose in status and learned to court ...
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... civil institutions . Settlers from Massachusetts seacoast towns , orators re- called , had braved a howling wilderness in the 1630s , crushing Indian resistance and clearing the land . The Restoration charter of 1662 annexed the New ...
... civil institutions . Settlers from Massachusetts seacoast towns , orators re- called , had braved a howling wilderness in the 1630s , crushing Indian resistance and clearing the land . The Restoration charter of 1662 annexed the New ...
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... civil and religious liberty might as easily be antagonistic as symbiotic . The biographer finds that the historical actors joining churches , leading movements , or spouting political opinions were not necessarily aware of the kinds of ...
... civil and religious liberty might as easily be antagonistic as symbiotic . The biographer finds that the historical actors joining churches , leading movements , or spouting political opinions were not necessarily aware of the kinds of ...
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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