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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... seemed to be in such evidence during the religious revivals of the early 1740s . But it was also a reaction to the collapse of the revival movement and an effort to restore cleri- cal discipline over the laity . Neither a sectarian ...
... seemed to be in such evidence during the religious revivals of the early 1740s . But it was also a reaction to the collapse of the revival movement and an effort to restore cleri- cal discipline over the laity . Neither a sectarian ...
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... seemed like quaint relics of a bygone era ? And which seemed as pow- erful and relevant at the end of the eighteenth century as they might have been at the beginning ? Writers in the Reformed tradition , especially within English ...
... seemed like quaint relics of a bygone era ? And which seemed as pow- erful and relevant at the end of the eighteenth century as they might have been at the beginning ? Writers in the Reformed tradition , especially within English ...
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... seemed similar . God applied the Word to them , as immediately and directly as he did to his first chosen people . " Jerusalem was , New - England is , they were , you are Gods own , Gods Covenant People , " Wakeman argued from Jer . 6 ...
... seemed similar . God applied the Word to them , as immediately and directly as he did to his first chosen people . " Jerusalem was , New - England is , they were , you are Gods own , Gods Covenant People , " Wakeman argued from Jer . 6 ...
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... seemed to inform many of the early - eighteenth - century sermons . But a de- cade after Williams wrote , his uncle Eleazar Williams spoke of the " secret de- parture of heart from God , " contributing to God's anger toward his people ...
... seemed to inform many of the early - eighteenth - century sermons . But a de- cade after Williams wrote , his uncle Eleazar Williams spoke of the " secret de- parture of heart from God , " contributing to God's anger toward his people ...
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... seemed to be working too hard to " prevent the ill effects " of the act , thereby subvert- ing its punitive purpose . Williams's Essential Rights , signed by " Philalethes ” of " Eleutheropolis , ” March 30 , 1744 , was printed in ...
... seemed to be working too hard to " prevent the ill effects " of the act , thereby subvert- ing its punitive purpose . Williams's Essential Rights , signed by " Philalethes ” of " Eleutheropolis , ” March 30 , 1744 , was printed in ...
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 |
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A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-century ... Christopher Grasso Vista de fragmentos - 1999 |
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