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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... experience - can bear the same ideological freight ( we are special ; we have failed and deserve our suffering ; if we recommit ourselves and change our ways , all will be well ) . Determining whether or not the living sense , implicit ...
... experience - can bear the same ideological freight ( we are special ; we have failed and deserve our suffering ; if we recommit ourselves and change our ways , all will be well ) . Determining whether or not the living sense , implicit ...
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... experience . But the lessons about New England's corporate identity and the logic of God's involve- ment could vary with regard to three themes . A clergyman who considered New England an elect nation might argue that God had given New ...
... experience . But the lessons about New England's corporate identity and the logic of God's involve- ment could vary with regard to three themes . A clergyman who considered New England an elect nation might argue that God had given New ...
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... experience through the twin prisms of biblical narrative and popular supernaturalism . Yet for a more historically specific and contex- tualized understanding of the covenant's power , we need to see how the idea supported specific ...
... experience through the twin prisms of biblical narrative and popular supernaturalism . Yet for a more historically specific and contex- tualized understanding of the covenant's power , we need to see how the idea supported specific ...
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... experience and public life . Most preachers focused on the immanence of the divine in guiding the good ruler and shaping his character . Solomon Williams argued that , without " a special and gracious Assistance of [ God's ] Spirit and ...
... experience and public life . Most preachers focused on the immanence of the divine in guiding the good ruler and shaping his character . Solomon Williams argued that , without " a special and gracious Assistance of [ God's ] Spirit and ...
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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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