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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... : Government / Civic and Literary / Educational Figure 22. Connecticut Imprints , 1750-1850 : Religious and Other 412 458 488 488 489 489 This page intentionally left blank A Speaking Aristocracy This page List of Illustrations.
... : Government / Civic and Literary / Educational Figure 22. Connecticut Imprints , 1750-1850 : Religious and Other 412 458 488 488 489 489 This page intentionally left blank A Speaking Aristocracy This page List of Illustrations.
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... literary rhetoric , political message , and prominence given to the local press all reveal how many of those traditions had changed.2 A Speaking Aristocracy explores the ways that learned men tried to shape the broader culture of ...
... literary rhetoric , political message , and prominence given to the local press all reveal how many of those traditions had changed.2 A Speaking Aristocracy explores the ways that learned men tried to shape the broader culture of ...
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... literary sensibil- ity by publishing satirical verse and epic poetry . In the early Republic , as the proliferation of newspapers and libraries incul- cated new habits of reading and learning among mechanics and farmers , lead- ers of ...
... literary sensibil- ity by publishing satirical verse and epic poetry . In the early Republic , as the proliferation of newspapers and libraries incul- cated new habits of reading and learning among mechanics and farmers , lead- ers of ...
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... literary historians , the period often becomes a ramshackle bridge between Puritan typology and the American Renaissance . This study tries to avoid such distortions of emphasis by placing eighteenth- century concerns and conceptual ...
... literary historians , the period often becomes a ramshackle bridge between Puritan typology and the American Renaissance . This study tries to avoid such distortions of emphasis by placing eighteenth- century concerns and conceptual ...
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... Literary Theory : An Introduction ( Minneapolis , Minn . , 1983 ) , 206 ; Eli- sha Paine , quoted in James Cogswell's sworn testimony , signed Oct. 9 , 1744 , in A Letter from the Associated Ministers of the County of Windham ...
... Literary Theory : An Introduction ( Minneapolis , Minn . , 1983 ) , 206 ; Eli- sha Paine , quoted in James Cogswell's sworn testimony , signed Oct. 9 , 1744 , in A Letter from the Associated Ministers of the County of Windham ...
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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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