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

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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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Main Author: Grasso, Christopher
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Massa (sociale wetenschappen)
Elites.
Communicatie.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Intellectuals.
Intellectual life.
Elite (Social sciences)
Discourse analysis > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Intellectuels > Connecticut > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Connecticut > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Rhetorique > Aspect social > Connecticut > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Intellectuals > Connecticut > History > 18th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Connecticut > History > 18th century.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > Connecticut > History > 18th century.
Discourse analysis > Social aspects > Connecticut > History > 18th century.
Connecticut.
Connecticut > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siecle.
Connecticut > Intellectual life > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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