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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... Town as the Deferential Townsfolk Bow before Him 313 Figure 13. Town Meeting 315 Figure 14. M'Fingal at the Liberty Pole 317 Figure 15. Connecticut Courant , Mar. 23 , 1795 , Front Page 348 Figure 16. Dialogue at Quarter Day , June 19 ...
... Town as the Deferential Townsfolk Bow before Him 313 Figure 13. Town Meeting 315 Figure 14. M'Fingal at the Liberty Pole 317 Figure 15. Connecticut Courant , Mar. 23 , 1795 , Front Page 348 Figure 16. Dialogue at Quarter Day , June 19 ...
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... 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 their neighbors and prepared to be leaders in church and ...
... 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 their neighbors and prepared to be leaders in church and ...
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... town . Hence the body of the clergy , with a few families of distinction , between whom there was ever a most ... towns were dominated by three or four leading 12 INTRODUCTION.
... town . Hence the body of the clergy , with a few families of distinction , between whom there was ever a most ... towns were dominated by three or four leading 12 INTRODUCTION.
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... towns and more diffuse in recently settled villages . The local pastor usually did form close ties with leading fami ... towns , see , especially , Edward M. Cook , Jr. , The Fathers of the Towns : Lead- ership and Community Structure in ...
... towns and more diffuse in recently settled villages . The local pastor usually did form close ties with leading fami ... towns , see , especially , Edward M. Cook , Jr. , The Fathers of the Towns : Lead- ership and Community Structure in ...
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... towns , orators re- called , had braved a howling wilderness in the 1630s , crushing Indian resistance and clearing ... Town : Growth and Development , 1635–1790 ( Middletown , Conn . , 1979 ) , population figures on 47 ; Jackson Turner ...
... towns , orators re- called , had braved a howling wilderness in the 1630s , crushing Indian resistance and clearing ... Town : Growth and Development , 1635–1790 ( Middletown , Conn . , 1979 ) , population figures on 47 ; Jackson Turner ...
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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