A speaking aristocracy : transforming public discourse in eighteenth-century Connecticut
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 strikingly new ways. A Speaking Aristocracy deepens our understanding of these sweeping changes by grounding them in a local context: the intellectual culture at Yale College and the world of public speech and writing in eighteenth-century Connecticut
Print Book, English, 1999
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1999
History
viii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780807824719, 9780807847725, 0807824712, 0807847720
39539252
The power of the public covenant
Only a great awakening: Jonathan Edwards and the regulation of religious discourse
Legalism and orthodoxy: Thomas Clap and the transformation of legal culture
The experimental philosophy of farming: Jared Eliot and the cultivation of Connecticut
Christian knowledge and revolutionary New England: the education of Ezra Stiles
Print, poetry, and politics: John Trumbull and the transformation of the public sphere
Reawakening the public mind: Timothy Dwight and the rhetoric of New England
Political characters and public words