A speaking aristocracy : transforming public discourse in eighteenth-century Connecticut /

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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 stri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grasso, Christopher
Autor Corporativo: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Colección:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Temas:
1700-1799
Discourse analysis > Social aspects > Connecticut > History > 18th century.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > Connecticut > History > 18th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Connecticut > History > 18th century.
Intellectuals > Connecticut > History > 18th century.
Rhétorique > Aspect social > Connecticut > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Connecticut > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Intellectuels > Connecticut > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Discourse analysis > Social aspects.
Elite (Social sciences)
Intellectual life.
Intellectuals.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Communicatie.
Elites.
Massa (sociale wetenschappen)
Connecticut > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Connecticut > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Connecticut.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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