A Speaking Aristocracy - Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (Paperback, New edition)

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 new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut. In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people. |Grasso explores the ways that intellectuals, preachers, and polemecists transformed the forms and substance of public discussion and examines the impact of change on complex relationships between religion, politics, and moral authority.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Authors:	Christopher Grasso
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	524
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-4772-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > Public speaking / elocution Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-8078-4772-0
Barcode:	9780807847725

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