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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... true , like a young At- torney at the Bar . " Eighteenth - century usage supports the modern inclination to conceive of discourse as a category that includes speech as well as writing , formal as well as informal language , the public ...
... true , like a young At- torney at the Bar . " Eighteenth - century usage supports the modern inclination to conceive of discourse as a category that includes speech as well as writing , formal as well as informal language , the public ...
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... true that even this broader sense of audience usually excluded , outside a religious context , women , poor white men , and men of color . A generation ago , an investigation of these characters would have been labeled as another ...
... true that even this broader sense of audience usually excluded , outside a religious context , women , poor white men , and men of color . A generation ago , an investigation of these characters would have been labeled as another ...
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... true that " the public mind is opposed to correction , and tenacious of its own established maxims " and that it was a difficult task to make people think for themselves . " General opinion is a stubborn thing , " but a writer could ...
... true that " the public mind is opposed to correction , and tenacious of its own established maxims " and that it was a difficult task to make people think for themselves . " General opinion is a stubborn thing , " but a writer could ...
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... true meaning of public professions were enough to preserve the true faith . The clergymen themselves had to be properly trained and regulated , and the language of orthodoxy needed to be more formally institutionalized and firmly ...
... true meaning of public professions were enough to preserve the true faith . The clergymen themselves had to be properly trained and regulated , and the language of orthodoxy needed to be more formally institutionalized and firmly ...
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... Lord , " better mutually watch over each other , ” and turn from our wicked ways , there is hope . As Saltonstall wrote and Griswold rewrote , " If we 24 are true to this Interest and Cause of God and. 1. The Power of the Public Covenant.
... Lord , " better mutually watch over each other , ” and turn from our wicked ways , there is hope . As Saltonstall wrote and Griswold rewrote , " If we 24 are true to this Interest and Cause of God and. 1. The Power of the Public Covenant.
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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