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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Grasso, Christopher
Collectivité auteur: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 literature.
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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (524 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469601205

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