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A Speaking Aristocracy - Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (Paperback, New edition)
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A Speaking Aristocracy - Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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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 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.
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