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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... speech and writing . This speaking aristocracy is a subset of the social elite , comprising primarily cler- gymen in the first half of the century and clergymen and other educated white males in the second half of the century . 1 Fourth ...
... speech and writing . This speaking aristocracy is a subset of the social elite , comprising primarily cler- gymen in the first half of the century and clergymen and other educated white males in the second half of the century . 1 Fourth ...
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... speech , like Stiles's , rallied New England to its traditions . But the speaker , oc- casion , literary rhetoric , political message , and prominence given to the local press all reveal how many of those traditions had changed.2 A ...
... speech , like Stiles's , rallied New England to its traditions . But the speaker , oc- casion , literary rhetoric , political message , and prominence given to the local press all reveal how many of those traditions had changed.2 A ...
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... speech and cul- tural authority , and it focused debate upon the role of higher learning in a religious society . Still , when the dust settled and the revival fervor cooled , the college - educated clergy continued to dominate public ...
... speech and cul- tural authority , and it focused debate upon the role of higher learning in a religious society . Still , when the dust settled and the revival fervor cooled , the college - educated clergy continued to dominate public ...
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... speech and writing , understood in the early eighteenth century as the words of the authoritative few to the people , came to be understood by many in the Revolutionary era as the civic conversation of the people . Neither min- isterial ...
... speech and writing , understood in the early eighteenth century as the words of the authoritative few to the people , came to be understood by many in the Revolutionary era as the civic conversation of the people . Neither min- isterial ...
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... speeches , letters , journals , newspaper articles , and poems . These sources are approached as speech and writing emerging from a context of previous dis- cussion embedded ( at least initially ) in a particular social environment and ...
... speeches , letters , journals , newspaper articles , and poems . These sources are approached as speech and writing emerging from a context of previous dis- cussion embedded ( at least initially ) in a particular social environment and ...
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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