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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... experience , this book focuses on the intellectual culture of Yale College and the world of pub- lic speech , writing , and print in eighteenth - century Connecticut . In the first half of the century , assumptions about social ...
... experience , this book focuses on the intellectual culture of Yale College and the world of pub- lic speech , writing , and print in eighteenth - century Connecticut . In the first half of the century , assumptions about social ...
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... experience could command attention when they spoke at town meetings ; their sons , who dis- played their logic , Latin , and elocution at college commencements , showed by their speaking and writing that they were distinguished from ...
... experience could command attention when they spoke at town meetings ; their sons , who dis- played their logic , Latin , and elocution at college commencements , showed by their speaking and writing that they were distinguished from ...
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... experienced by people in the midst of them . It Michel Foucault , ” in George Levine , ed . , Constructions of the Self ( New Brunswick , N.J. , 1992 ) , 81–104 ; and Habermas et al . , “ Concluding Remarks , ” in Calhoun , ed ...
... experienced by people in the midst of them . It Michel Foucault , ” in George Levine , ed . , Constructions of the Self ( New Brunswick , N.J. , 1992 ) , 81–104 ; and Habermas et al . , “ Concluding Remarks , ” in Calhoun , ed ...
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... experience and cultural expression . Those who stress social sta- bility and the continuing rhythms of agricultural life tend to highlight the perpetuation of traditional , communal values . Others , who describe dramatic changes ...
... experience and cultural expression . Those who stress social sta- bility and the continuing rhythms of agricultural life tend to highlight the perpetuation of traditional , communal values . Others , who describe dramatic changes ...
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... experience of the community , further complicated by church cove- nants that looked both to this world and the next , the covenantal system tried to connect — even as it made distinctions between - personal faith and socio- political ...
... experience of the community , further complicated by church cove- nants that looked both to this world and the next , the covenantal system tried to connect — even as it made distinctions between - personal faith and socio- political ...
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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