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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... established maxims " and that it was a difficult task to make people think for themselves . " General opinion is a stubborn thing , " but a writer could break through the public's customary prejudices by appealing to the individual ...
... established maxims " and that it was a difficult task to make people think for themselves . " General opinion is a stubborn thing , " but a writer could break through the public's customary prejudices by appealing to the individual ...
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... established the colony of Connecticut and the charter that framed its civil institutions . Settlers from ... establish direct trade with Europe . After 1760 , some businessmen began showing more interest in manufacturing.1 Despite this ...
... established the colony of Connecticut and the charter that framed its civil institutions . Settlers from ... establish direct trade with Europe . After 1760 , some businessmen began showing more interest in manufacturing.1 Despite this ...
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... established churches to regulate the meaning of 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 ...
... established churches to regulate the meaning of 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 ...
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... establish the colony's first printing press , which printed the Platform as well as the annual laws , proclamations , and election sermons at government expense . The Sal- tonstall sermon that Griswold copied , along with the text of ...
... establish the colony's first printing press , which printed the Platform as well as the annual laws , proclamations , and election sermons at government expense . The Sal- tonstall sermon that Griswold copied , along with the text of ...
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... established as the government's printer . See J. Hammond Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadly , eds . , The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut , 15 vols . ( Hartford , Conn . , 1850–1890 ) , V , 192 , 477. For the larger political ...
... established as the government's printer . See J. Hammond Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadly , eds . , The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut , 15 vols . ( Hartford , Conn . , 1850–1890 ) , V , 192 , 477. For the larger political ...
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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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