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A Speaking Aristocracy : Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut /

Using biographical case studies and drawing on hundreds of printed and manuscript sources - including sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles - Christopher Grasso elucidates the complex and changing relationships among religion, politics, law, science, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
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:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.